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Posted on 06/25/2007 10:06:52 AM PDT by Renfield
The world's richest people are facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions: a chronic shortage of butlers.
English butlers are sought after for their 'calmness in the face of adversity'
The demand for a new generation of Jeeves and Hudsons - from London to Dubai and, especially, from the Hamptons to Malibu - is so high that it is being counted in the tens of thousands.
"If we doubled the number of butlers, they wouldn't be without work," said Charles MacPherson, vice-chairman of the International Guild of Professional Butlers. Robert Watson, managing director of the Guild of Professional English Butlers, agreed. "What they mostly want in the Hamptons and elsewhere is an English butler," he said. "It's that very English calmness in the face of adversity."
The boom in demand for butlers - female and male - has been building over the past decade and is attributed to the increase in the number of dotcom millionaires.
A butler - or household manager, as they are increasingly known in the United States - can expect a salary in Britain of about £30,000, although some in America are getting up to £250,000. The highest paid is reputed to earn £1.5 million - with board and lodging thrown in, of course.
There are estimated to be up to 5,000 butlers in Britain, and Mr Watson said there remained a reluctance among people to choose it as a career.
I could be happy like that.
That is my goal after all- to have a beautiful house to take care of for the rest of my life...
Sounds like a good idea for a SitCom !!
Kennedy compound? I don’t want to know.
My man Winston has been gainfully employed by my mummy and daddy for years. (/sarcasam)
Somehow the image of boorish no count Alex Baldwin bossing around a proper English butler is no way to start a week.
I think it time to open up a local branch of the Devries Scool of Butlering (and tractor trailer driving).
We’ve got a lot of illegal immigrants in this country who are looking for jobs. Just give us the word, and we’ll send them over.
Having recently traveled through the grain belt, I thought this was going to be a galvanized grain storage bin thread.
Most are made by Butler
Anthony Hopkins...
“Remains of the Day”
American Houseboy?
“Remains of the Day”
I saw that film recently and thought it was incredibly good. I'm not sure if that many people know about it but it must be one of Hopkins' greatest roles.
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This is awful! Who is going to do the murders now?
Yeah, I can't imagine why. I mean, who wouldn't want a life of servitude for the likes of Tom Cruise and Theresa Heinz-Kerry."There ain't enough money in the world!"
Good idea - who needs a college class when I could just subscribe to “Martha Stewart Living”?
Seriously, though, any kind of domestic work is about producing the kind of environment that the employer wants, and I think I’d find the environment of dot-com millionaires pretty alien!
Get your nasty mitts away from Antoine, you parvenu, or I’ll have the dogs released. ;)
LOL!
I endured that movie with an ex-gf who loved it. Years later someone said "what was that about?" and I answered "Two people fall in love, do nothing about it for 20 years, while cleaning a huge beautiful house."
“(How many servants does the butler have?)”
The butler has his own butler.
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