I hate rich kids

You must lead a sad life to be jealous of interns.

[quote] what it was like to live in Brazil on the west coast of South America.

Pretty hard to describe that notorious Brazilian west coast!

Envy will poison your soul, OP.

Don’t hate

How sad to be envious of kids

And they didn’t notice that you existed, so all is equitable 🤗

Working for Wells Fargo is nothing to brag about.

Is Wells Fargo not equivalent to Ernest and Young?

You can’t be that poor if you’re riding Amtrak on the northeast corridor, OP.

R8, Ernst and Young and Wells Fargo have both committed a lot of fraud, but Wells Fargo is really downmarket: it abuses individual account holders and its own employees.

OP, don't hate, just masturbate.

You should've bragged about your nuts.

What???

Just go in for a freakin’ interview and get yourself a job, OP.

p.s. Ernst & Young suck ass. You don’t wanna work there. Lol.

Wachovia and AG Edwards are where it’s at. Also, bitcoin investment firms are “interesting” right now.

Please give the OP a break. His career has taken a downward spiral since Craigslist took the sex workers section off its site.

I still hate rich kids.

You only get out of an internship, or college, or a job, what you put into it.

I used to work at a college that had separate parking lots of students and faculty. Our parking lot was filled with old beaters and cheap newer cars. The students' lot was full of German sporty cars, Italian race cars, and occasionally, massive, new American-made SUVs. It made me sad every day.

Interns are generally unpaid or at least about $10 an hour at my bank. Most go onto other careers. Occasionally we come across one that shows promise and ends up getting hired but not often. So OP don't read too much into what you overheard.

"Intern positions at Ernst & Young and Wells Fargo" reads considerably downmarket and unglamorous to moi. The spawn of the .1%, so you know, RICH kids, would never be interested in anything so bourgeois.

If they're interns and making very little most probably their parents are extremely rich and supporting them. And they probably have great apartments or condos.

You have every right to be jealous of those little shits OP. They are probably enjoying life while you're hating every minute of it. It sucks to have poor parents especially when those parents are as miserable as any rich parents can be.

Missed networking opportunity, OP. Someday soon, those two up-and-comers could very well be in a position to put in a good word for you with the janitor department.

Would you hate them more if they were debating whether to shoot their their senior thesis movie at their grandmother's villa on Lake Como, intern at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi with their college roommate, a Emirati princess, run Agit Prop Art workshops for indigenous peoples of the Amazon, or collaborate virtually with Ukraine's It Army from the house on the Vineyard.

Rich people don't ride trains.

You make less at Ernst and Young as an intern than you would if you worked at Costco.

Costco started paying workers at least $16 an hour in March 2021, and now comes news the company will be offering a minimum of $17 an hour. "These increases are part of Costco's continuing efforts to ensure our hourly wages remain extremely competitive in the retail industry," Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said in a memo to employees in October. More than half of Costco's hourly workers actually make $25 or more, Jelinek says.

Are you sure they're actually "rich" or are they just upper middle class, which is prosperous to the average person but nowhere genuinely being "rich"? Would truly "rich" kids brag about interning while riding on a train with the plebes, or would they have private jets/hired drivers?

You people don't understand the rich -- assuming, that is, that this took place in the Northeast or perhaps even the Midwest (if it took place at all, that is). My family (but not, alas, me) is in the upper .01 percent and the kids were told after college to intern wherever they wanted, but were definitely told they had to do something along those Wells Fargo, etc llines (although one joined the Peace Corps). The point is that the money is irrelevant, the position is irrelevant, you just simply have your children do these kinds of things because you think it teaches them the real world. When they're ready, they either go into the family business, take a job with their father's chum from college or prep school, or just deal with the family money.

And yes, they take trains. The richest people I know often don't even go first class so they can casually mention it in conversation to show how much like real people they are. The very richest people I know are also among the cheapest -- they'll go out for lunch and conveniently forget their wallet and ask you to pay,

The only people who show off their money are the nouveau riche or the ones who really don't have all that much. It's very déclassé to conspicuously spend.

Amtrak?

Who the fuck are you, OP? Hire a fucking driver if you're so triggered by other people having a conversation on public transport. Because it's not your problem at all that others are conversing freely. It's theirs. It's not your problem that you have untreated inner rage. It's theirs.

They should have immediately recognized what a sociopath you are, and removed themselves to another location. How very dare they begin to converse without checking in with you first to ask if it's OK.

I just can't even begin to feel your pain.

[quote]You only get out of an internship, or college, or a job, what you put into it.

R16 Bullshit. If you're an entitled prick, you get to put it on your resume for a 'real job' and get points for it.

Why all the hateful judgement of OP?

I agree, OP. I hate nepotism.

In This Thread, are people who claim to be "left wing" making apologies for trust fund shitheads, and attacking a working class plebian trying to play by the crooked rules.

The state of things.

Hateful, old, fat auntie that OP is. Pathetic.

That’s it, r31. It’s the generational hand-off to colleges and jobs that I loathe.

OP observes unthinking rich kid privilege in action and posters here rally round the elite, so often the American reaction. People here identify with the rich beyond all reason - half of all Americans regard themselves are being in the top 10%. I'm not sure where this level of delusion comes from.

OP observes unthinking rich kid privilege in action and posters here rally round the elite, so often the American reaction. People here identify with the rich beyond all reason - half of all Americans regard themselves are being in the top 10%. I'm not sure where this level of delusion comes from.

Which poster rallied for the "rich kids"?

r30 DL has been cuntier than usual lately

R31, please rethink that sentence. Because it’s not clear at all what you mean.

Don't envy them OP. They'll both most likely be cocaine addicts within the next few years, if they're not already.

LOL - if you're jealous of someone working for E&Y for being "rich" - you should aim a lot higher.

These types of trust fund assholes have permeated so many areas of Brooklyn and are now slithering into Long Island City Queens, wish these creeps would simply stay in their home states and countries.

They're so damn annoying and entitled. All these people leave behind when they decide to leave NYC are ridiculously high rents, especially in once working class neighborhoods and tons of useless stores, which most people never needed or wanted in the first place.

Trust fund hipsters are even worse.

I heard someone call trust fund hipsters, "bohemian royalty". Hilarious.

'Delusional spoiled untalented assholes' is more like it.

Eh, try being around poor people who blare horrible music all day long, allow their pitbull and let it run lose in the neighborhood when it's not chained in the backyard barking all day, and don't do any upkeep of their property. Then those rich kids won't seem so annoying anymore.

🙄 there's always a truth fairy. Thank god.

[quote]Eh, try being around poor people who blare horrible music all day long, allow their pitbull and let it run lose in the neighborhood when it's not chained in the backyard barking all day, and don't do any upkeep of their property. Then those rich kids won't seem so annoying anymore.

Sigh, yet ANOTHER Faux News talking point on DL.

Most poor people WORK, they are the ones who keep NYC, and other high-priced cities, running,

In most of the major US cities, the poor and working class do work. These people work in stores, they are cashiers and do the inventory. They also work as maids, nannies, cabbies, home aides, maintenance workers, you know, actual hard working people. These people are also being priced out of their cities, places where many of them actually grew up.

These hard working people are sure not rich kid poseurs living in gentrified areas of Brooklyn.

R30, OP, perhaps rather cleverly, aimed his post at DL’s sweet spot: class distinctions. To the hyper-observant, someone with a parent who works at a run-of-the-mill bank like Wells Fargo or a big accounting firm is middle class. The comfy, lives-in-Westchester middle class, but middle class. The truly rich, and their trust fund spawn, are in a different world, the Goldman Sachs world, the world where the “kids” intern at Sotheby’s or MOMA.

[quote]In This Thread, are people who claim to be "left wing" making apologies for trust fund shitheads, and attacking a working class plebian trying to play by the crooked rules.

Who claimed to be "left wing" and who knows for sure that the annoying train riders are trust fund shitheads? Maybe there are people on this thread who are tired of ignorant stereotyping, and who know when to capitalize and when not to.

We are going to see more and more and more (very) rich kids, especially in the major cities. Keep in mind that boomers will pass on massive wealth to their children and grandchildren. Since the 1980s, there have been so many wealth management tools and Reagan era tax breaks...it has created mini-dynasties. My brother-in-law is 60, went to Harvard Business School and has been working with no gaps in his employment since the mid 1980s. He has been pulling down anywhere from $400 to $500,000 a year for the last 20 years in management consulting and hospital management/COO. He and is wife travel a lot but that is their big expenditure. I would be surprised if they had under $25 million in retirement funds. And they are very average among their peers in Boston. CEOs and CFOs make much more. They have two kids in their 20s who are going to inherit a fortune one day. This is being repeated all over the country. It has already started.

I have another friend who was dating a 45 year old trust fund baby. They tried to play it down as most people with trust funds do, but after a while you notice that no one is really working and they always have new stuff and they go out to eat 5 nights a week and they never complain about money. Only after they broke up did my friend tell me how much money he received from his trust fund: about $425,000 a year. I was floored. She only told me because I was intrigued that he was still paying for her health insurance. She said to me, "it's a drop in a bucket to him."

Basically, it's going to be a lot of rich people/trust funds and a lot of people who service them: it may seem like that today, but today is just a dress rehearsal.

[quote]I heard someone call trust fund hipsters, "bohemian royalty". Hilarious.

I agree with you - hilarious!

Typical American bullshit: Rich people = good. Poor and working class = bad.

Wait until the US becomes like Russia and other authoritarian countries, it's heading there.

The Republican voters keep on drinking the Kool-Aid, always voting against things which can help them, especially the hillbillies and other uneducated voters. These weirdos scream about 'less government', yet, all that's done under Repubs is for the government to get MORE involved with taking away US citizens rights.

The Repubs stand for nothing except taking away needed programs from taxpayers and cutting more taxes for corporations and the wealthy.

Who would vote against universal healthcare (there is actually no need for health insurance companies, they make billions in profits every year, while denying patients important diagnostic tests, doctors even agree on this! The US healthcare system is one of the most convoluted and shady systems in the world), clean air, affordable housing and basic human rights?!

[quote]In This Thread, are people who claim to be "left wing" making apologies for trust fund shitheads, and attacking a working class plebian trying to play by the crooked rules.

No one has claimed to be "left wing" and, frankly, I don't want to be associated with that crazy anymore if it means being associated with some of the crap being spewed.

As for being an apologist - no one is apologizing. There is a difference between not towing the line for blind, rabid, soundbites and dogma and being an apologist. Of course, people like you wouldn't know that as you don't seem willing or able to assess anything critically.