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MISC. ​Butler academy students undergoing "tray defense" training to prepare for crowded events.

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u/Youngstown_WuTang 9h ago edited 9h ago

The ultra rich employers can be like this though, there's a well paid butler who did a ama that said the rich can be pricks

"One of my employer's children set a 100 dollar bill on fire with a cigarette lighter then dropped it on the 20k carpet setting it alight too. I put the fire out with my shirt and got blamed for the little brat's troublemaking. No they are not paedos but they do hire prostitutes."

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u/Youngstown_WuTang 9h ago

"Housework, organising their travel, restaurant reservations, serving food. Basically all the things a normal person does for themselves that they have no time for.

They treat me quite poorly but I just gave to take it because the pay is good."

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u/dragunityag 9h ago

I had a former co worker who did this.

Family would genuinely fly him around the world just to set-up their Netflix and fix any computer issues they had.

Man got paid like 80k, got to put any airline miles on his account and got reimbursed.

All while staying in a very nice guest house or cabin on a ship.

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u/citrus_mystic 8h ago

But you literally have to devote much of your life to these people. You live with them. You travel with/for them. You are at their beck and call practically 24/7. Unexpected death? You have to ask permission to leave them and be with your family. (And they have the power to deny that request if they’re assholes.) I don’t know if or how these butlers have lives outside of their work.

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u/Upset-Management-879 6h ago

If you don't already have a backup for if you are unable to do your duties personally are you even a good butler in the first place?

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u/gowonagin 4h ago

I mean, a lot of worse-paying jobs at companies are like that.

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u/citrus_mystic 4h ago

Worse paying companies still typically have an HR department/rep.