People Who Cater To The Super Rich Describe The Wildest Things They've Seen

We've all wondered just how "the other half lives."

For most people, that means imagining what it must be like to have money to burn, with multiple mansions all over the globe, five different yachts, and a wardrobe exclusively made up of designer clothes.

While very few people are lucky enough to live such a life, those who work for the one percent have gotten a first hand account of what living a life of luxury is actually like.

And boy, do they have stories to tell.

Redditor Budget-Cash-3602 was eager to hear all about what current or former employees of the super wealthy have experienced, leading them to ask:

"People who cater to the super rich, what things have you seen?"

No Room At The Inn? No Problem...

"My aunt is a retired high-end realtor."

"She got roped into helping this service arrange housing for wealthy F1 fans."

"These 'Saudi prince' types are from another planet."

"1 mansion for a week isn’t enough."

"They need 6-8 mansions next door to each other for a month to accommodate their private medical staff, legal teams, chefs, airplane mechanics, etc."

"They fly in on multiple private jets and rent entire airports for the weekend."

"Once guy even paid to have a helicopter pad constructed on a property he rented, and then paid to be removed when he was done."

"All of this for a WEEKEND GETAWAY."- Sometimes_Stutters

Nature Vs. Nurture...

"About 20 years ago, I was the personal assistant / nanny for a billionaire family in SoCal."

"At first, they were such lovely people but slowly all of their dysfunction overtook the happy veneer."

"The husband spent almost all of his time away and barely checked in with his family."

"The wife was the epitome of the bored, neglected rich second wife who ignored her only child in private but pretended to be mother of the year in public."

"She would take one yoga class a day and attend one high society function and then spend the rest of the day bemoaning how difficult and stressful her life was."

"The child was neglected, unloved, and acted out constantly."

"He reminded me of one of the kids from Russian orphanages that weren’t held as babies and grew up not being able to form attachments to other human beings."

"He basically lived alone in this mansion with only myself, the cook and housemaid, and his mother who barely even spoke to him and who I never saw hug him much less play with him."

"I essentially drove him to school, and to all the activities he didn’t want to do but kept him out of her way, helped him do his homework and tucked him in at night."

"He hated me no matter how I tried to bond with him, which I could understand because all he needed was his parents love and attention, and didn’t want me as a replacement."

"I ended up getting fired after the holidays because I was tasked with planning their Christmas vacation, and after a month of intense planning: booking a private villa, organizing their private jet, the house-staff at the location, ordering all the necessary food and getting all the activities planned, the wife decided two days out that she no longer wanted to go to that location, but to a private island instead."

"When I informed her of the lack of availability at the new destination and cost of lost deposits etc, but did provide her a list of options to choose from, she blamed me for ruining their holidays because I should have anticipated and planned a back up at the exact location she wanted that she had never previously mentioned."

"I was so happy to have been fired from that mausoleum of rich malaise and despair. honestly, I’ve sadly enjoyed reading the news over the years of the husband moving on to his fourth and now fifth, much younger wife, getting caught up in legal drama for corruption, and f*cking off into obscurity once she was divorced from her place in high society."

"Unfortunately I’ve seen the kid’s social media, and he’s turned out to be another über rich soulless d-bag, and will probably just play out his father’s life beat by beat in an attempt to forever try to earn his attention, love and respect."- honeychild7878

Seems About Right...

"I'm a pool cleaner, and I used to service the pool for the inventor of the fleshlight."

" Weird dude."

"Super rich."

"He lives in Texas and had many houses on a ranch and also a sex palace filled with flesh lights."

"Naked models having photo shoots all the time."

"I went into the sex palace one time and it had beaded curtains everywhere and smelled like a**."

"It was a weird experience lol."- exzactlyd

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Truly Spared No Expense

"Worked a $3 million wedding."

"My in-laws own the premier florist in town."

"The flower budget was $250K."

"They blew that out of the water."

"I think it ended up being in excess of $480K."

"The wedding was on the bride's father's land."

"An entire section of land (600+ acres) with three houses, two churches, barn* and a private polo field (the damn horse stalls were nicer than my first apartment)."

"By barn I mean a Amish-built barn the guy found in New York State, had it dismantled and reassembled on his land and turned into an apartment."

"I had to move a painting from the mantle for decorating."

"They told me AFTER it was worth $1.5 million."

"The tent for the wedding could have held 2 of Barnum & Baily's 3 rings."

"Everything was over the top."

"But, talking to the father, he was an exceptionally nice man and you would never knew he was rich."- GrimSpirit42

There's No Going Back From First Class...But There Is Going Up...

"I fly private jets for a living."

"The levels of excess and indulgence I see are insane."

"$50k worth of dishes that never get used."

"A vacation to Norway last year cost around $450k."

"The plane I fly right now is around 40 million."

"Flying the family dogs on the jet an hour to their preferred groomer."

"A day trip to Maui just for a same-day passport."

"$34,000/month for our satellite-based wifi."- ApatheticSkyentist

Unfashionably Low Pay...

"I was a nanny for about a year for this rich family."

"The mom's closet was as big as my entire first floor."

"She never paid attention to her four boys, and all she did was shop all day, everyday, for like 8-10 hours."

"And I mean, helping her carry in carloads, everyday ( all clothes for her)."

"Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of clothes, each day, for a year."

"Mid year, I asked for a raise from 9.00 an hour ( for four boys) to 11.00 an hour."

"She said no."

"I quit that day."- Significant_Most5407

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Everyone Needs To Get Out Of The House Every Now And Then...

"My friend's wife flies to Aspen when she has a headache."

"Not for a headache treatment, just to ‘breathe better air'."

" Meanwhile, I treat my migraines by turning off the lights and putting a wet facecloth over my forehead."- Discard86

One Person's Rags Are Another's Riches...

"My niece had a scholarship to an excellent university she would never have been able to afford."

"Therefore there were many people attending that came from money."

"She was lucky enough to room with really nice people."

"The girls she was with would just give her clothing and bags like Prada and Gucci, like stuff that cost thousands of dollars."

"My niece would say, I can't take this."

"The girls would say stuff, like, don't worry, I have another one that's almost just like it."

"Or, my aunt gave it to me and I just don't like the color or something like that."

"They were super nice but the fact that they thought nothing of giving away items that cost thousands of dollars."

"My niece would tell me, 'They gave me a bag that's worth more than my car!'"- Labradawgz90

Champagne Budget... Analogue Tastes...

"The majority of my clients have $5+ million dollar homes."

"One of my richest clients, who probably has roughly 100 million in real estate, refuses to have smart or electric thermostats in his home."

"He doesn't want the hassle of batteries, power outages resetting settings, things like that."

"So you walk into a big beautiful home on the water, and the old mercury dial thermostat keeps the house at 70f."

"He's actually self made and walks around when help is there and hands out $100 bills to all the workers."

"He's a genuinely great person, and his wife and kids are as well."

"Other clients are less hospitable, and my invoices reflect it."- Shmeepsheep

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The Things People Will Pay And Be Paid For...

"I did a bit of IT/technical contracting, and I guess by word of mouth, got into an 'elite/super rich' clientele at some point."

"So a few interesting cases:"

"1- Had a guy who lived in a mansion by himself who would pay us 1200 dollars an hour to plug in a TV (Power + HDMI)."

"He requested a team of a minimum 4 people, all of which must be asian (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)."

"So we would go over, plug in the TV, then the next 2-3 hours was him just being the most racist PoS you've ever met- talking about how WW2 should've ended, white supremacy, all of the things."

"My staff have been briefed about how this job is not to plug in a TV, its get paid 300 an hour to stand there, smile, nod and take whatever he throws at you."

"This guy called us up maybe once a month and we were all happy to take his money."

"I really do think he was just lonely and suffering from some sort of other mental issues though."

"2- Once had a guy pay us to setup an A/V system inside a swimming pool."

"Just to re-emphasize, inside a swimming pool."

"He wanted audio/visual fidelity under water."

"We showed up with all the equipment and it turns out the swimming pool wasn't even dug yet."

"They hired another person to dig it on the same morning we were to install the equipment."

"The swimming pool that he had built that we measured for was a sample one he wanted torn out."

"They didn't want us to leave either and come back when the pool was in as they wanted workmen around to film something for social media, so we were all paid 500/hr to walk around and look busy like we were extras on a set."

"I myself carried a spool of HDMI cable for about 6 laps around the house before I picked up a color calibrator and started pointing it and plugging it into trees."

"3- Was asked to setup a Game of Thrones watch party in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with no road access."

"Was also told that the cabin was not fully built yet- and that there was no electricity or water to the area yet- we had 5 days."

"There was a veritable army of contractors running cables, lumber and work crews doing shifts around the clock but we got a nice Plasma TV in there with a satellite connection, great WiFi, septic systems, well water, electrical, emergency generators and HVAC."

"In those 5 days I probably took in 30K CAD in pay after expenses."- Cookie_Eater108

Billable Hours...

"My wife is an attorney."

"All of her clients are those Arrested Development-style rich people who are completely detached from reality."

"One of her clients gets a new car, every 10,000 miles, rather than 'going through the trouble' of having somebody take the car in for regular maintenance."- morose4eva

"When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie..."

"I know of somebody who got married to a very wealthy girl in the 90s."

"Talking multi-billionaire family members."

"She was down to earth and totally chill."

"At their bachelor/bachelorette party weekend, they each had them in separate family estates."

"His in Colorado, hers in Connecticut."

"Earlier in the day, he mentioned to somebody how there wasn’t any good pizza in Vail, where they were partying."

"She had her assistant call his favorite pizza place in Boston and had them close down for the night, put their two cooks and owner all on a private charter to Colorado with their supplies, closed down and rented out a local pizza restaurant in Vail with a pizza oven, and surprise him with a dozen pizzas from his favorite pizza place for his bachelor party guys."

"Total cost of everything was over $100k, in 1990s money."

"They are still married now over 30 years later, with adult children."

"His favorite pizza place closed down when the owner retired so he hired one of the cooks to be his private chef for a few years."- gaqua

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Even When You Got It... No Need To Flaunt It...

"I’ve got megarich clients."

"Most of them are first generation money, grew up on farms or working on oil rigs."

"You’d never know they were wealthy."

"There’s no shabbiness or suffering, but no ostentatious displays either."

"They have a nice car, but not nicer than lots of other people who aren’t rich."

"The difference is that theirs isn’t financed."

"They have vacation homes, but purchased with cash and not financed to the eyeballs."

"Maybe it’s like the saying 'money talks, but wealth whispers'."- afriendincanada

Return To Sender!

"I installed tile for a major city-developer in his personal house."

"45,000 square feet on ten acres in coveted forest land."

"Needed two different satellite dishes for TV service because one wouldn’t cover the whole house."

"Had two different tile crews, one for inside and one for outside."

"Decided to add an infinity pool after construction started, just a cool impromptu $1,000,000 addition."

"But the wildest note is that the wife ordered a massive ($50,000) natural darkwood countertop from Cameroon, Africa."

"This sounds like a joke."

"It took months to be delivered, and when the wife saw it in the house’s lighting, she decided she didn’t want it and sent it back."

"These people flew in a private barber from across the country to get their hair cut."

"Exorbitant wealth is ridiculous."- LONGLlVETHEMX-5

Sweet Smell Of Success...

"Worked for a summer cleaning boats at a yacht club so I could get free sailing lessons."

"One very rich pharmaceutical family had a person hired specifically to bake cookies and brownies."

"Nothing else."

"Warm cookies and brownies for certain times of day."

"They had entirely separate culinary / pastry staff for other food preparation."

"She was a public school teacher who loved to bake so it was a great summer job for her but still...

"Blew my mind to conceive of enough wealth to hire staff for such specificities."- moonphased239

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Those who have never had to worry about money in their lives should consider themselves very lucky indeed.

Hearing about some of these families and individuals though... lucky isn't the first word that comes to mind...