Tales of Tacky Privilege: Entitled Elites People Behaving Badly
Entitled rich people serve as a great example that wealth alone doesn't guarantee good manners or class. From their completely unreasonable behavior to out-of-touch attitudes, rich people can embody the worst traits imaginable. Read on to know more:
1. EGO Is The Root Cause Why She Carries More Weight Than Required
For one instance that happened a couple of years back about a local socialite who married one of the richest and most powerful families here. What goes around is that she was at the bank's main office to meet the CEO. Instead of heading into the elevator by herself, her bodyguards removed the people from the elevator so that she could go up alone without people bothering her.
She said something like, 'Get out of my elevator.' The funny bit is that one of the people she forced out of the elevator was the bank's owners' wife who then went on to take another elevator with the rest of the people who were forced out. She took her revenge by asking the socialite to 'Get out of her building.' as the owners' wife had already reached there.
2. Understanding The Scale
There was a man who kept a $20 bill on the table as I greeted him and his wife and said, 'This is your tip and every time you go wrong, I shall remove a dollar.' I thought of it as a silly joke and laughed asking, 'Like, what?
He then immediately removed the $20 bill and replaced it with $19 to be exact and I thought to myself, who does so? and carries enough bills to do the same. He responded with, 'Like that.'
3. Neglectful Much?
My uncle who is quite elderly and well esteemed invited me and my partner to an exclusive country club for dinner. We were mindful to ask about the dress code and were informed we shall be in the club's casual dining room and 'just wear anything.' So I dressed up in jeans and polos which was a BIG MISTAKE. We reached before my uncle did and when we walked in we felt poor and like peasants.
The staff there, all of them were just staring at us. Our host was standing behind his little podium in a tux, saying nothing for a long time, and then with pain he told us: 'I am sorry, we do not serve people in… dungarees.' It felt insulting and the most hilarious thing I was ever told. Every single syllable was shaped with contempt and derision.
Once we informed whose party we were invited for then immediately they failed to say that no, jeans wouldn't be an issue. We were waiting there till my uncle arrived, told them to get bent, and went for pizza.
4. Do Not Fight The Sky
When I was on a flight recently, I upgraded to first class and ended up delayed on the ground for an hour. I was not pissed. A woman who sat in front of me turned to her husband and said, 'Why don't you go have a word with the captain and see if you can get him to hurry up? Tell him who you are.' Although there was one problem.
I had no idea who he was and nor did anybody else either. But the man understood that he would not work if the woman he was with did not. In conclusion, he refused.
5. If You Are Rich, You Can Pee Anywhere
I worked as a server at a high-end steakhouse in Newport Beach, California. A rich dude's son entered who was probably in his mid 30s with a huge group. They were in the private room and spent a lot of money on booze and food. The man got drunk and later instead of heading down to take a leak and relieved himself in the hallway, ON THE FLOOR.
He was not kicked out from there but instead they had a janitor come in to clean it up and the dinner was going on. I guess, it is great to have that kind of money.
6. Germ Monstrosity
I worked as a Valet for a year at a classy hotel. We had Mercedes, BMWs, Range Rovers, football players candy colored cars, Porsches that came in routinely. Basically, I have driven any kind of high end car to a point. Once a man pulled up in a Mercedes and it was not a super high dollar car but a decent one. He was quite cool initially but then, he did the meanest thing I had ever seen.
I handed him the valet claim ticket and he casually reached to his back seat and retrieved a newspaper. I held the driver's door for him as he was disassembling the newspaper on his driver's seat protecting himself from my apparently dirty self. There need not be words exchanged. It was one of the rudest insults I have received.
7. Lot Of Money For A Burrito
When I worked as a cashier at Chipotle, there was a woman who misunderstood the price of a burrito. She heard me say, 'That will be seven-twenty-eight' and without any hesitation, counted out eight $100 bills from a wad of cash that must have been several thousand dollars.
We had a good laugh when she realized her mistake. She was carrying a suitcase and had a thick accent, so I think it may have been her first cash transaction in the US.
She was so wealthy that she did not realize that $800 was a lot of money to spend on a burrito.
8. Loafer To Deny Her
I once worked at an expensive and exclusive country club, the one you would see at Bluth's. One of the members had driven the golf cart straight from her house. She said that her help forgot to buy a loaf of bread and wanted to purchase one from our kitchen. When I told her that we cannot sell a loaf of bread, she enquired about how sandwiches a loaf of bread can make.
Finally, I ended up selling her 10 sandwiches with nothing on it at $7/piece.
9. Misunderstood Identity
I worked as a sous-chef at a fancy country club. It was just 10 minutes prior to when we opened it for the Easter buffet. We knew it would be quite a busy day, needless to say. I worked through the dining room and checked out the details and suddenly, a two year old girl ran into the room and she ran from her mother who was at the front desk.
She looked up with her eyes wide and stopped about 6 feet in front of us. It was a sight to see where I was in my tall white hat with white apron down to my toes. Her mother reached in a heartbeat where she turned towards her daughter by the shoulder, and whisking her away said: 'Don't talk to them, that's the help dear.'
10. Very Disrespectful
My ex-husband worked as an artist for really rich people. Once a client paid him cash but the way he paid him was very awful. He would wad up the bills and threw them at my ex one-by-one as he spoke in an insulting manner to him. That man won a home award so of course, my ex did a great job with his work but he was still treated with disrespect.
I cannot apprehend what is going on in that guy's head.
11. Thought That Matter
I work as an event chef for a fine dining catering company. The wealthy customers treat me well with respect. I get a great treatment because I am the one wearing a chef's coat and hat because they know I am looking after their food. The 'best' insult was when I received a $2.50 tip for the entire night. It was clearly worse than receiving no tip.
12. A Poor Point Of View
I received a call from his office, despite knowing about the history with his previous assistants and I was clearly nervous. Later, he shredded me for 15 minutes completely red in the head, spit flying in my face as he stood above me, basically ripping me a new one. I was crying because I was 15 at the time and it was my first job. He then stopped shouting which was not a good sign.
He used his finger at my chin where he lifted my face so I looked right at him and told him, 'You are nobody, do not forget that.' He then threw paperwork at me to officially let him know that I was fired and yelled at me to get out of the house.
13. Calling Out Bad Behavior Is Essential
Once an American woman who looked like a model to me came for a breakfast at a nice hotel in Barcelona. She asked the waiter to walk the butter over to her table even though it was 4 feet away at the breakfast buffet. I actually stood up, grabbed it, and handed it to her, as she was demanding this in English from the Catalonian staff and she went on to say, 'No, I want them to do it.'
I told her that she was an embarrassment, to which she stormed out. Doing my part!
14. Be Humble!
My family is well off and we also lived in an upscale snooty area. My father grew up poor and became successful through hard work. Because he did not want his children to be crazy rich brats who are lazy so he raised us in such a way that we would not be snobs. One of my jobs was as a dog walker when I was in high school because he encouraged that, also because I love dogs. Once, when I walked into a client's home she said, 'I am sure somebody like you has never even been in such a big house.'
When I told her that I did, she chuckled and said, 'Walmart is not a house!' I was surprised by her rudeness and thought everybody who was well-off would be classy and humble like my father, but I guess I was wrong.
15. Feeling Worthless
I started getting chest pains as I was opening bottles for a table. I got scared as the last time it happened I also had seizures. The pain was so bad that I dropped the bottle and kept it on the table. However, a lady said: 'Honey are you okay?' because it seemed like something was wrong. A man who ordered the bottle said, 'We are not paying $50 a person for you to die here.'
After a few seconds, it felt like the pain had lasted forever and gradually went away and I apologized for the same explaining what happened to me last time. The man replied saying, 'At least you did not drop the bottle—it costs more than your life.' My eyes were welled up as I poured their drinks and never went to that table.
The lady who asked me if I was okay came to me later and apologized for the man's actions and gave me a $100 bill. I still remember the feeling of worthlessness at the moment. The bottle cost $300.
16. Allowance That Is Spoilt
A distant relative of ours had spent all his university years and 20s partying hard with ~$100-120K allowance his rich company-owning father gave him each year. He would travel around the globe every year and visit Bali, Europe, Thailand and Oktoberfest. When he was 32, he planned to settle down in an upscale ski resort area of the US and open a business with his hot gold digger fiancé.
When he was transferring his money in his US bank account, he found out that the balance was down to a few thousand dollars. He was angry and asked the bank worker why she had not transferred the entire amount. Without saying anything, his father had cut him off and he had not noticed that. It was an absolute flatline.
17. Exceptional Attempt
When I worked as a host for 7 years at a local mom-and-pop breakfast place in San Francisco. Although it was small, it catered to a lot of high-end people like the Mayor and some professional football players. During brunch days, we would end up waiting for an hour or more. However, my favorite thing to do is pull up the 'I know the owner' card to get a table but there was one problem.
In addition, they were not aware that the owner worked the line everyday and stood next to us then I said: 'Oh let me get them. I'm sure they would love to say hello!' The face changed when the owner said: 'I am sorry where have we met?' was absolutely priceless. Although it was one of the only restaurants I worked at which cared more about their staff than the customer always being right.
18. Can You Help Me With That?
Earlier, I worked as a Valet at the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas strip. I recollected a memory where I accompanied an old lady (who is wearing one of those stereotypical 'old woman with old money' hats) to her Lexus. She looked at me and said: 'This wind is unacceptable.' I agreed as I did not and she stood there giving me a look like, 'Well?'
I said later, 'Well, unfortunately, there's nothing I can do.' She looked at me and repeated: 'UN-ACCEPTABLE' and got into her car and drove off.
19. You Know Who I Am?
I worked in Whistler BC where it was a common sight to see a lot of athletes during the winter and summer, and off-season when they did training camps. Even though I don't follow sports, I ran into a guy who I thought was a pro snowboarder by the looks of him. I think we accidentally bumped into each other in a club or something.
He pulled out the typical, 'Do you know who I am?' at me and I replied back saying, 'Do YOU know who I am!?' right back at him.
He was completely shocked and added, 'Half the people in this town are famous, bud. Get over yourself.' His look was priceless when I said that because essentially nobody but my facade seemed to work.
20. Rules Applied
I worked in a public library when few local celebs would come in from time to time and most of them were nice but one of them would always whine about having to wait in the line, late fees and everything else. We would just revert by saying, 'Sorry, those are the rules' or 'Thank you for being patient' even though he wasn't really.
Once, he and I were both having a bad day so I told him about the limit on DVDs or video games that he could check out and he raged by saying: ‘Do you know who I am?!’ This is a fully grown man, mind, and I was a little college student who barely looked old enough to drive—so I finally just snapped.
I was tired of him teasing me so I looked at him and said, 'Yes I do, Mr.X, and the rules still apply to you. Which of these would you like me to put back?' He was surprised because I doubt if somebody actually told him that the rules for everyone else did in fact apply to him as well. He was a little nicer after that. Not a lot nicer, but still.
21. Spending Limits Of A Broke Person
I knew of a rich dude who was entirely delusional and walked around buying things as if he were a prince. He spent $1,000s on clothes in one sitting and would buy drinks for people at the bar. His 'rich and don't care attitude' was showcased through his bills.
Once, he asked me to print his credit score and banking information and I found out that he was $100,000 in debt, despite pulling in a six-figure salary. His spending habits were crazy.
22. ‘Go Die And Be Forgotten’
This happened when I was working on a yacht in South America. A woman once had a bunch of things sent for a party in a helicopter and it must have violated airspace. So, the coast guard decided to go allow the helicopter till the yacht and got in the vessel finding someone to arrest.
The woman removed her checkbook and asked them to 'Fill it out, and then die and be forgotten' as she walked away.
23. Cheerful Wishers
I used to live in Florida and worked as a server and once where I was serving a table asked me how I survived during Hurricane Irma and I said I had minor damage on the roof but was lucky that not one oak tree in our backyard fell on the house. The woman at the table said something along the lines of, 'Well, I hope your landlord is taking care of that soon.'
I went on to discuss that my fiancé and I own the house and her mouth dropped. She replied saying. 'Wow aren't you lucky to be with somebody who makes enough money to own a house?' I reverted to that by saying: 'I actually make more money than her' and walked away.
24. Well, Apologies Because I Am Not Interested
When I was in the University I worked for the University Mail Services in college, it was mostly just sorting mail but I occasionally helped out with deliveries and pickups on campus. Once I was picking mails from one of the admin offices and was running on the route and I saw a FedEx package to pick and I had to sign the paperwork, keep the time noted, and leave the carbon copy.
My pen was left behind in the van so I asked people passing by if I could borrow a pen for a second and they looked at me as if I had asked for his Ferrari to spin. He looked down at me while handing me the pen and he managed it well to make the act of handing me a pen condescending.
The woman then said: 'You must ask your boss for a raise so you can afford your own pen.'
25. Setting The Bar Pretty High
I worked for a yuppie bowling alley quite sometime back. You may laugh at that but an hour and half of bowling a pitcher is about $90 for two people. I went to check on a group that was setting up and some of them were a couple of well-dressed older white ladies with two Asian six-year-old girls, both in fancy little kimonos.
I greeted them well and asked, 'Can I get y all a pitcher of soda?' and a lady gave me a weird like and said, 'You mean you all. I already worry about the girls growing up with an accent, and I don’t want them learning bad grammar as well.' I just couldn't believe it and on top of them she also made the girls practice their 'bow' for me. I was freaked out and weirded about almost everything that happened.
26. Brushing It Off With A Smile
When I was 21, I used to bartend at a snooty restaurant that was often visited by the yachties and one of our customers said, 'Oh you look about my daughter's age except that she is away for college and a career is important to her.'
Little were they aware that I was graduating that year and was off to graduation school in the coming year. To that lady I just smiled back at and told her, 'Wow, that is great. Can I get you another cocktail?'
27. Over Dramatization
Back in the days, I used to work for a VIP area of a now-defunct stadium. I was also in high school and worked a summer job washing the dishes. We also served different VIP staff including the stadium owner, who was quite fine and he also thanked us this one time which was more than what we received from our guests but his relatives? They are another story. Once we heard a shriek coming from one of the guests, it sounded like someone was being attacked.
The head chef, my boss, runs out to see what happened and it turns out to be a dressing on a handle of the label. One of the owner's relatives was shrieking like a rat had just popped out of her food!
28. A Job Opening
Couple of days back, I was serving at a very important business meeting that had a gentleman flown from Hong Kong. Maybe they left some documents on the table that got thrown away and came back a few hours later frantically looking for them.
I was pulled aside and said the most entitled thing I have ever heard: 'Look, I make more in a week than you do in a year. Find me those papers or I will have you shine my shoes just to make a little extra.'
29. Exhibit That For Me!
I used to work for a high-class seafood restaurant in Rhode Island. One beautiful evening I had a table of people who ordered a lobster dish. When I went to clean up the mess, a man complained about how the lobster wasn't fresh but frozen, whereas I reverted back politely stating that the lobster was never frozen but the man was very stubborn.
I apologized and walked off, and I passed my manager and mentioned it to him. He marched off and came back 5 minutes later with a cardboard box that was filled with live lobsters and said: 'Go show them!' I headed back to the table and kept the box full of 10+ lobsters and said, 'See Fresh.' The guy was dumbstruck and his face was so satisfying. The tip…not so satisfying.
30. Showcase Some Maturity
I umpired a little in the league baseball and was calling a game between a couple of pretty snooty leagues. After I called strike 3 on a kid my mother yelled from the stands: 'Don't worry honey, he is just some fat loser with nothing better to do!' Later, I looked back and saw who said that and it was a young, rich looking mom, who was I think 35 years old.
I knew she would make sure she regretted her words because this woman prides herself about how she looked considering the fact she was pretty dressed up for her child's little league baseball game. However, in between the innings, I leaned back against the fence telling her, 'Ma'am, these are children. I would expect a woman in her 50s to have a little more class than that.'