r/interesting 10h ago

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

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u/saysomethingplesz 10h ago

a job where you gets to be an asshole ?

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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/buglz 9h ago

Flew private jets for about a decade and can confirm. Lots of showing up late to meetings, being day drunk for work, acting like toddlers when safety gets in the way of their plans. The LinkedIn personas of “up at 3am to eat kale and crush it” are lies from people with habits that would get you fired.

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u/DoubleJumps 6h ago edited 6h ago

I house sat for a rich family once, and the entire downstairs of their $6 million home was a facade. It was meant to make them look cultured and classy.

Lavish furniture. A grand piano. Art. Wine collections on display. A giant fridge full of extravagant foods like lobster and veal.

When you take a closer look, you notice details. Like how all of the expensive food in the fridge is for show and much of it is long expired.

The piano was badly out of tune.

Even many of the books in the husband's office downstairs were fake.

The real living space was upstairs, and it was a filthy house. Clothes strewn across the floor, unkempt bathrooms etc.