This thread isn't meant to be about rich people in the abstract, but awful rich people you've met.
Context: My girlfriend works for a large company (I won't say which) which is owned entirely by one woman who is worth upwards of $45 million.
But I have never heard of anyone so incredibly petty and pathetic. In their cafeteria there is the staff coffee machine, and literally right next to it is a coffee machine worth twice as much... but only the CEO is allowed to use it. She could of course put the nice machine in her huge office, but it's a deliberate choice to put it next to the staff's crappy machine.
She also makes the marketing team sell handbags and clothes worth in excess of $15,000 online. It's basically so she can wave her money in her staff's faces. And the latest, and arguably the most hilarious, is that every person in the company has to contribute $20 (the managers have to contribute $150) to buy the CEO a Gucci handbag. That's right. My girlfriend, who gets paid $60k, has to contribute money to buy a multimillionaire an expensive handbag.
What the hell is the point of working for 20 years, amassing tens of millions of dollars, only to feel like you have to make sure your employees know they aren't allowed to use the good coffee machine?
I guess the funny thing about her is she would be easy to reduce to tears. The other day she was bragging that her teeth cost her $37,000 (what?). I would just die to hear someone retort "yet you're still lonely and sad".
Anyway - anyone else met some awful rich people you'd like to complain about?
Context: My girlfriend works for a large company (I won't say which) which is owned entirely by one woman who is worth upwards of $45 million.
But I have never heard of anyone so incredibly petty and pathetic. In their cafeteria there is the staff coffee machine, and literally right next to it is a coffee machine worth twice as much... but only the CEO is allowed to use it. She could of course put the nice machine in her huge office, but it's a deliberate choice to put it next to the staff's crappy machine.
She also makes the marketing team sell handbags and clothes worth in excess of $15,000 online. It's basically so she can wave her money in her staff's faces. And the latest, and arguably the most hilarious, is that every person in the company has to contribute $20 (the managers have to contribute $150) to buy the CEO a Gucci handbag. That's right. My girlfriend, who gets paid $60k, has to contribute money to buy a multimillionaire an expensive handbag.
What the hell is the point of working for 20 years, amassing tens of millions of dollars, only to feel like you have to make sure your employees know they aren't allowed to use the good coffee machine?
I guess the funny thing about her is she would be easy to reduce to tears. The other day she was bragging that her teeth cost her $37,000 (what?). I would just die to hear someone retort "yet you're still lonely and sad".
Anyway - anyone else met some awful rich people you'd like to complain about?