Can confirm. Work at a bank with a lot of people who are "old money". Those baby boomers are even more entitled than millennials. The rich people we have who are business clients are usually the nicest people we have come in

bruh if I hit the powerball I would totally do this, even if I didn't earn it. Customers are the only ones who can really get away with this stuff. It's also why I'll tell someone being a douchebag to shut the fuck up - because the employee can't.

You'd be surprised at what a small loan of a million dollars can do. If you invest it right, your return on investment is gonna be yuge.

That's really just down to the fact that if they made they their money, they probably grew up normal, and if they inherited, they likely grew up rich.

It's a mixed bag.

I had the unusual and, at times, questionable pleasure of growing up in a really ritzy part of Long Island and associating with those people. In no particular order... I've known families that own several entire city blocks in Manhattan. I've known countless families that own multi million dollar companies, to the point that this wouldn't even be a talking point. I've known families that personally own major resorts. My sister went to school with a legit billionaire, who lives on one of the estates that inspired The Great Gatsby. Safari vacations in Africa were considered low key for some of my friends. I went to school with some of he Gotti family. One of my high school girlfriends was the daughter of Bernie Madoff's business partner. For greater context, I came from a dirt poor immigrant family and my dad ended up running a fairly successful business.

One girl I knew came from one of the richer families I knew. The entire clan she came from has billions and billions in assets, and has had many of these assets for several generations. The most expensive car her family owned some sixties muscle car - not sure if it was inherited or not. Otherwise, they just drove run of the mill sedans, both in the US and abroad. She worked as a waitress through out most of high school, as did all four of her siblings. Although most of her outfits cost more than I make in a week, as an engineer, you'd never be able to tell, just by looking at her; she wore mostly tailored clothing, but that clothing was always very modest and very tasteful. Nowadays, she's finishing up a degree in a field related to a family member's chronic illness, is split between med school and grad school, and is dating a really great, down to earth guy. I couldn't be prouder for her and of the fact that I know her.

On the flipside. The girl whose dad worked with Madoff once flipped out at me for deciding I wanted a Honda as my first car. For fuck's sake, a $20,000 Honda is an absolute Godsend for a 17 year old kid, I still drive that car today, nearly a decade later. She wanted me to get a used Audi for the same cost. Her dad bought her a Mustang before she could legally drive, then traded it for a BMW 3 series, because he felt the Mustang was too "low class" for his family. I wish I was exaggerating. Her dad came from a nothing special, middle class family and worked his way up the ladder in the finance world. Nowadays, he's the dean of a business school in the NY area... He semi-retired to academia after overwhelming evidence surfaced that he was conning his own clients after he stopped working with Madoff - this was a few years before Bernie got investigated and incarcerated.

Human decency, in my experience, isn't dependent on money, nor is it dependent on how hard a person worked for his money. It's really about what motivates a person: the desire to be happy and share their happiness with others, or a desire for power and to demonstrate it to others.

see also: Trump

Funny how that works

There's some truth in that but it can also go the other way. Some the the most wealthy, old-money people I've ever met have been absolutely amazing people. Imo it's more of the new money "the world is my bitch" hot shots that are the biggest assholes. It really just depends on the person.

I can see how others may feel that way, but a very close friend of mine both inherited a large sum as well as worked very hard to become quite wealthy, and he happens to be one of the most generous and down to earth people I've ever known. He helped pay for my wedding, and then stayed after and cleaned up. He loaned us one of his homes for our honeymoon and then came back on the last day to cook us dinner.

I honestly think it just has more to do with how someone was raised in a wealthy family as well as whether they choose to work hard regardless of need.

But this is just my anecdotal experience.

Yep. Richest guy who used to come into the restaurant I worked at started off by owning scrap yards. Guy is worth over $100 million now. Dresses like Carl from ATHF. Knows everybody's name who works there from the managers to the bussers. Showed up at a charity event held by one of the workers. Nicest guy you will ever meet.

So true, few years ago worked for an ISP that covered Greenwich CT, and the aging silver spoon set are as bad as you can possibly imagine, always demanding free shit that's not even related to their nonissue, always made sure they got charge every single penny for wasting my time, and I could give as large a credit as I deemed necessary

Ha. Look at this poor scrub who doesn't know how to wear a penthouse condo!

Are you me?? I also work for a bank's IT department, and the branch managers and my IT manager want to meet the boards every need, within 2.5 milliseconds of that need being uttered.

I've talked to the board, and they're all super down-to-earth people. As you said, they've earned respect, and I give it to them. But I've held conversations with all of them. Hell, I had a half-hour conversation about how I feel the Philadelphia Flyers are a garbage team with a board member who was a Flyers fan. He proceeded to tell me why the Flames (my favorite team) are garbage. Respect doesn't equal worship.

Or the people with money that didn't earn that money.

If I'm worth 100 million I'll buy a portable suite and get people to move it wherever I go.

I'd prefer just money, mo' money-mo' problems.

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I'll take a grand

Also tellers and bankers can't accept unreasonable gifts from customers.

There are different kinds of banks - retail, investment, wholesale, and commercial. Sums of private wealth in the hundreds of millions--or even tens, usually--aren't kept in retail banks. They're with specialist investment bankers, and are usually distributed across multiple institutions to reduce risk of catastrophic loss.

High net worth individuals--even people with well under a hundred million in liquid assets--don't actually go to a retail bank and see a teller the way you or I do. Their bankers come to them in their offices or homes for investment instructions, and they have staff who deal with any routine retail banking requirements.

You're thinking of a savings account or hard cash/precious items in a vault. The super rich can't afford to just have their money sitting around. Even the highest yield savings accounts have too low of an interest rate to be worth keeping for more than an emergency fund. They will instead keep their money invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. The residential branches are just an easy place to access these more powerful monetary institutions.

I can't really imagine anyone who has worked in a retail bank finding this plausible. It makes this story seem like /r/thathappened material.

I'll tell you right now bank tellers aren't salaried

Bank teller.

And people need to poop. Doesn't mean 2 hour movies need to show every time the main character went to the bathroom over the course of the 2 month story.

I understand the whole, "it doesn't have to be a real story for it to be entertaining" thing. But can we at least only upvote fake stories that are well written or have an interesting plot?

You think there's a fast lane like at tsa?

I want to read that version it sounds great

r/LateStageCapitalism is leaking.