Rich People’s Employees Are Sharing The Things That Surprised Them The Most

I worked inside a shark tank (yes those kind of sharks) In a basement of a home, and it was bigger then my apartment. The walls were higher then my ceilings. Literally the captive sharks had a bigger space then me. The room full of equipment like pumps, and stuff, was bigger then any room in my apartment. Talking to the guy who was the expert on the job about the whole thing....

He was saying, if you didn't feed the sharks for awhile. and tossed a person in, or fell in yourself. You would die, be eaten, and the filters and everything would have the water clear again in under an hour.

Literally this rich person could dispose of bodies if they needed in a secret underground shark-tank,

From the surface from the street, the house looked like a normal big house...

But inside it was full of art, and workers, and fancy alcohol, a cigar room, a gym,

and it went DOWN so deep, and had such a huge basement, like a tooth with roots, or an iceberg, where the tip is the house and the real mass is underground.

Then at the very bottom was a shark-tank room.

If I hadn't helped put it together I would never believe it exists...

When I would work there, every hour someone would bring me water and food, cookies, and sandwiches. Near the end we drank fancy scotch, and I received an envelope just full of 100's. I think it was 10 Grand.

Cool people, real nice.

This one guy had a jar of c*****e in his bathroom labeled ‘for guests’. And it wasn’t a small little lipstick sized jar. It was, like, something you’d put q-tips in.


Another was just funny. He was excited about the $32 jacket he got at Costco. The guy was literally a billionaire, and was bragging about the deal he got on his jacket.

They dont move furniture when they move. They leave it at the old house and just buy new s**t for their new house. F’ing blew my mind.

When I was in grad school I worked as a piano mover, so I mostly either did jobs for local orchestras, music venues, and schools, or people who were rich enough to keep grand pianos in their homes. Which, not all of them are absurdly wealthy, but there were a few jobs that really stuck with me.

One of my favorites was this mansion that was in a gated community nested inside ANOTHER gated community. We looked it up on Zillow and it was listed as having sold for 7 or 8 million, and I'm in Kentucky where property is pretty cheap. Guy said "yeah, I live on a few thousand acres up in Hoosier National Forest but my b*tch wife doesn't wanna live with me anymore so I bought her this place."

Lots of taxidermied exotic animals

Did a job in one of the OLD old money mansions in town, still had intact slave quarters.

I worked for a very wealthy couple for a while. They were like everyone else, mostly nice, but could be total aholes when in a mood.

Two things to understand... firstly they don't think that they're rich. This couple had 27 properties across 5 countries... a dozen cars... half a dozen boats... a private jet (albeit a small one)... a "significant" stock portfolio... and I heard one day... $350m in the bank... yet they were always talking about what they would do if it all vanished overnight. Everyone in their world that I dealt with was the same... matter how much they had it felt to them like they were on the verge of being poor.

The second thing is that they have a totally skewed understanding of the value of money. They might fly 1200miles in the private jet to get a hamburger, but not get a Coke because its "Too Expensive!". They will get a bill from their lawyer for $2000 and lose their c**p, then you find out that they were in a bind and the lawyer fixed it and saved them 7 million. I remember one time she bought a dress for $500,000 and then wouldn't wear it because the strapless bra she needed was going to cost $600 and she wasn't prepared to pay that.

I did some engineering work for the top 6 or 8 AmWay people. One of their houses had an NBA approved basketball court installed on the second floor of a house that had a 2000 sf cigar humidor room. We had a meeting where they flew their private jet to Salem, Oregon to pick me up on the way to Los Vegas. We had the meeting on the aircraft, they went to Los Vegas then sent the plane back to Salem. One of their houses had a room that was only accessible via under water in the swimming pool. I don't know who is more irresponsible..... the very poor or the very rich.

A sign saying “service entrance “ in the back door.
Husband and wife each have a private jet.

I work at a private high school, and every year each class starts with an overnight class retreat. One year, we couldn't find a location that would take the junior class, so one of the parents just casually BOUGHT A SUMMER CAMP, and the junior class had their retreat there.

Lingerie models parade around for the biggest developer in Virginia Beach so he could pick out something for his wife.

For a bar mistvah a family rented out the star light roof at the waldorf Astoria and 2 other banquet halls
One was full of video games. The hallways were full of candy vending machines.