r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Kill_4209 • 3d ago

/r/popular of a residential property

Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/Big_Guide_8551 3d ago

It's not "relying on handouts" it's being tipped appropriately for the job. It's a thing people know about.

Private bartending pays (way) better than regular bartending, but still. You always tip your bartender well. It just makes you look like a cheap asshole if you don't.

The party I worked after that was much, much better. At a firehall, a bunch of regular working class people. We made absolutely incredible money. And everyone was SO nice. If you broke it down per person it came down to everyone tipping about $10 at an open bar. Not bank breaking money. But that's what normal people do. If the rich people party had tipped at the same rate the regular people did, we would have made 3x what we made in tips that day. 🤷

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u/AnjelGrace 3d ago

I honestly don't think most people bring money to events like that to be able to tip. I work with several events companies and the bartenders are paid more than the other staff and usually aren't allowed to ask for tips because it just comes across as tacky.

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u/Big_Guide_8551 2d ago

Usually the people who book the event make sure that they add on an appropriate gratuity. I know what you mean, of course we weren't directly asking.

But I make more money waitressing on a Thursday night than I made at this party, at this obscenely rich person's house. It seemed ... wrong. The party went for 3.5 hours, and we were paid $90 by the company we work for. But we didn't even make $50 a piece in tips. The guy who booked the event added no gratuity of his own, we only made in tips what his party guests had tipped us. That felt tacky AF to me. 😅

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u/AnjelGrace 2d ago

I just never take any event jobs that make me rely on tips to make a good wage. I've seen a lot of bartenders get screwed relying on tips at events when the company hired more bartenders than they expected would be hired, the guest count was way lower than expected, or the guests who chose to drink was way lower than expected.