I started a new job for a person I guess is rich. She is paying $25hr, 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. I first understood I drive her places, make her breakfast and lunch. Of course, now I'm expected to change air filters, and one vent is 14 feet above. I think she is rich because she took her previous cartaker to France for 2 weeks, paid for first class airfare for both. $25/hour is really good for h.s. graduate here in Houston. She broke her leg some time in the past by falling down her stairs. A few days before her last trip in May she broke her leg again. Of course she didn't cancel her trip, it would cost her money, instead of staying home and healing.
How rich people think:
So rich people don't mind spending money for certain things, I guess for comfort or status, I need more research. But they will count every single penny. I don't expect her to pay me for time I didn't work, but she just loves rubbing my face into it a lot. And I'm not saying only rich people count every penny. This woman was being vicous about it. Not all rich people are like this. I do remember reading this book a nanny wrote about a Hollywood agent. The wife didn't want one of the maids to throw away a iron just because the cord was frayed and not safe. This wife wanted the cord to be replaced instead of buying a new one.
How rich people think:
- She told me about her son marrying 20 years ago and he came to complain about his wife not cleaning, and this woman tells her son, "you both have good jobs, hire a maid."
- She is paying me $25/hour.
- She pays a person to clean her house every 2 weeks.
- She pays gardeners.
- Does not know that you can buy an I phone charging cable anywhere else besides the Apple store. She only has one I phone charging cord. It isn't working. I said we can get it at CVS or Walgreens or T-mobile. She didn't know that. I will say, she might be dumb, but so far I don't see any evidence she is dumb.
- She tells me to turn off the lights, because, "I don't know where you live, lights cost money."
- I find some HEB grocery bags in a kitchen drawer. Friday we go grocery shopping to HEB. She sees me bringing the bags, and she asks me what am I doing. I say I'm taking them to the store for our shopping. She says "You don't have to pay for bags, they are free. I use the bags to line my bathroom trashcan."
- She will buy me breakfast before grocery shopping. She doesn't ask me what I want, so what ever. She splits a plate of the "special". So she gets a pancake, shitload of hash, and scramble eggs. That is all I get too. I ask her if I can have a Topo Chico (sparkling water), she nods. She then asks the cashier what "Topo Chico" is. I show the bottle. Anyway, she got mad I didn't finish my plate, and latter brings up a lot I bought a drink. She told me she would pay for my meal before several times this week.
- She gets me my pay, then complains about paying me for an hour I didn't work since I have to leave early, though we talked several times about me working extra next week to make it up.
- I ask if I can buy a drink at the store she says no, "buy it with your own money, with the $25 I paid you that you didn't work."
- She has a woman come in every 2 weeks to clean. So the house doesn't seem filthy to me but the toilets get cleaned every 2 weeks.
So rich people don't mind spending money for certain things, I guess for comfort or status, I need more research. But they will count every single penny. I don't expect her to pay me for time I didn't work, but she just loves rubbing my face into it a lot. And I'm not saying only rich people count every penny. This woman was being vicous about it. Not all rich people are like this. I do remember reading this book a nanny wrote about a Hollywood agent. The wife didn't want one of the maids to throw away a iron just because the cord was frayed and not safe. This wife wanted the cord to be replaced instead of buying a new one.
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