My eyes were rolling reading these.

“I used to work with someone who proclaimed to be an environmentalist.

She was very preachy.

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Once, I had a can of Coke on my desk.

She said, ‘You’re going to recycle that, right?’

She used her father’s personal jet all the time.

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Once, just to fly from NYC to Boston to see a baseball game.”

“Not me, but a friend of mine was an assistant trainer at a Panera store.

They hired a teenager who was only working there to meet people.

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One day, a group left a huge mess in the dining room.

And my friend had to explain that they were the help.

He apparently quit not long after.”

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So they tried it and essentially blew the transmission and the motor up.

A few months later, he got a Porsche for Christmas."

“Had a guy work for me in the military.

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He thought he didnt have to do anything because his parents would just ‘call their friends.’

He ended up getting kicked out for LSD and cocaine use.”

Can’t remember if they ended up buying him that Mercedes or not, but they probably did.

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“Had a pet-sitting client once ask me if I’d ever been to Italy.

He gave me the blankest look when I said no.

His wife also couldn’t understand why I didn’t have a house cleaner of my own.

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Their house cleaner was my childhood friend: I’m the one who recommended her to them.”

Nothing happened to him."

“I had a friend who worked as a counselor at an American summer camp somewhere in Pennsylvania.

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I used to work at a company whose graduate program was a hotbed of nepotism and classism.

It wasnt in Chelsea, [but instead] it was in the nice part of Battersea.”

First of all, dont be trying to paint your nails in English class.

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Second, so this isnotthe first designer bag you ruined by being a careless dolt?

Excuse me while I continue along teaching Frederick Douglass, because some people have real problems."

“I had a student who never showed up to class or turned in any assignments.

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They complained to daddy, who was a well-known rich person in our community.

This happened regularly.”

“A friend of a friend didn’t understand how her credit card worked.

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“I’m going with my best friends older sister.

One day, we asked her to pick us up a rotisserie chicken.

She came back upset and without chicken, ‘cause she couldnt understand why it was so cheap.

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According to her, it shouldve been $40.

She thought something was wrong with it for being $7.”

I was like, my man, I cannot believe you just said that out loud.”

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Every time a plumber was called and the treasure trove was found."

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Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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