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Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy

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  • A boss talks down to her male employee
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  • My boss rants about the flights being too expensive. She refuses to fly economy and was laughing that people do...

    On half a million salary, owns a house in a really locked down market (overpriced, and most desirable location) that is high $. Had to had to hear my boss, and her obnoxious client make mockery of people who fly economy as they could "never" while laughing. -
  • Now my boss has European plans, ranting the tickets are 'far too expensive' and it would run them up well over $20,000. I rolled my eyes, considering economy is about $1,000-$2,000 (which is pushing it).
  • The reason it's "so expensive" is solely because she refuses to fly anything other than business or first. Her 16 year old son also travels all over the world, and it's business only.
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  • Same women who whines she doesn't "make much money" - which is BS, since I saw her tax document (415k), with a semi- retired husband. Pulling $4,000-$7,000 a day due to her profession.
  • Same lady who whips me to do x, and z and doesn't care to raise my wage, and says "can't do that" what a joke. F this job, and f ד ד F wealthy too. corporate.
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  • Commenters gave their support and sympathy.

    Thongasm420 It's these people who can't make a pdf and then get mad when they ask other people to do it for them
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  • RubixRube There is something just so painfully entitled about the C-Suite and travel. I do travel once or twice per month for business. (I am a Department Director) I am always booked in economy,
  • occasionally I have to share a hotel room. Recently as we are going through "difficult times" my per diem was cut from $50 to $20 (with the caveat that i could submit personal expenses if my per diem exceeded that for "business reasons". A business reason does NOT
  • include being in a high cost area where $20 Canadian doesn't even get you a muffin and coffee) But I digress, while I am having a slumber party with a Coworker I have met once and trying to figure out the optimal way to feed myself
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  • on $20 daily, the VPs are flying first class, set up in suites and do not worry about per diem as they have corporate cards. It boggles my mind that if the VPS could fly business. class, or perhaps get a
  • standard room, Janet from Marketing and I's first introduction may not be trying to find out where the closest grocery store is so we can split a prepared salad.
  • arlsol She sounds like she s ks. But she's just the laces on the boot that the real wealthy want you to blame. Real wealthy don't fly commercial.
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  • OneWorld87 Lifestyle Creep - they could. retire with a few years But instead Blast Money Out of the window
  • dth1717 Yup, she'll spend 20k on a 5 hour flight but you ask for a .25¢ an hour raise????
  • cernyn_ My boss is like this. It drives me actually mad. She's so checked out from actual reality and the fact that this company operates on her every whim blows my mind. Looses money like crazy but doesn't have budget to give employees a raise or cost of
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  • living increase. Let alone what we need to do our jobs. We had an event and she kept shushing all of us for whispering or typing on our laptops. While she did the same things and ordered a pair of $700 pants.
  • cipher315 The hilarious thing is because she never learned to manage money, she has managed to get into a situation were she is actually close to living pay check to pay check and will probably struggle to retire at 65.
  • Basically this women doesn't understand that there are levels of rich, and believe it or not they are at the very bottom of rich. In fact they are probably not even in the top 1%. (That's a household that makes over
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  • 650k a year) but she has somehow convinced herself that she is, for want of a better term, middle class rich. The really sad part is if she could keep her spending to like $600 a day she could probably already have been retired.
  • If it makes you feel better know that her financial peers and betters all mock her behind her back. They all know what she makes and what she spends. and they can math out what I mathed out.
  • default-0985 I feel so bad for some of you guys, your bosses sound like complete I. I never had a boss I loved or anything, but they at least have the common courtesy to not talk about money like that in front of others.

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