Dammit! That’s what I get for skimming.
True - some chauffeurs are also supposed to be bodyguards. I know this mainly because Di chose to take her bodyguard in addition to a chauffeur with dubious credentials, instead of a chauffeur cum bodyguard as was the norm.
Hollywood movies would tell you that chauffeurs have a higher death rate than redshirts. Obviously, that’s not like real life, but I guess bodyguarding is an extra task some chauffeurs could be tasked with.
Now you guys are just trying to confuse me. . .
No problem. But next time we meet in a bar in Casablanca, you buy the drinks!
I lived in Aceh, Indonesia. I’d go down to Jakarta from time to time where it wasn’t unusual for expats to have drivers. Usually, you rented a car and it came with a driver. The driver took you where you wanted, waited until you were ready to come home, helped carry stuff in from the car, and kind of hung around, usually in the kitchen.
For a certain type of expat (often oil execs), the driver also: got weed, booze, or other drugs; picked up and dropped off hookers when the wife went back to the states for a visit; kept his mouth shut.
I think it’s not so much that they’re chauffeurs who act as bodyguards, but rather bodyguards who also drive the boss’s car. Essentially, this means that they don’t wait in the car, but instead follow the boss around to provide security.
Do chauffeurs still wear cool uniforms? (Black tunics, uniform cap, black leather boots and gloves)?
Sounds like “Driving Miss Crazy”.
Maybe you should get some DVD’s of hart to hart and see what Max did- apart from feeding Freeway.
I live in an area with an odd mix of “regular folks” (like us) and very rich people (own professional sports teams). We have kids that play travel sports and so we tend to mingle. I don’t know anyone who has a chauffeur but do know someone with a private jet. I don’t remember where we were but there was a local river boat casino that people were talking about going to and someone mentioned that we could take “John’s” (not his real name) jet to Vegas instead. He normally pilots his jet but had a glass or two of wine with dinner so gave us a number… said we could take his jet but he shouldn’t fly it. We ended up going to the river boat but there was obviously a group on stand by that would have been happy to drop everything and fly a bunch of drunk soccer dads to Vegas on short notice.
+1. 
Oh, sure, but nobody got my Driving Miss Daisy reference. I might as well have gone with the Duran Duran joke.
Not to mention that, even if you do have the skills and knowledge of a mechanic, fixing modern cars requires considerably more than a socket set.
If a Mercedes S-Class or a BMW 7 Series or a Bentley Mulsanne (the sort of car a person who has a chauffeur might own) have any problem more complicated than a flat tire or low engine coolant, the only way to diagnose the problem is to plug the car into an expensive and complicated diagnostic computer. This is generally not the sort of thing that you just buy and keep in the garage.
Discrimination by requiring the two employees to be partnered in a civil marriage (i.e., registered partners are not acceptable, shacking up is not acceptable, religious marriage with no civil counterpart is not acceptable),
discrimination by requiring the marriage be heterosexual,
discrimination by linking to gender two separate jobs which are not linked to gender by the actual job requirements.
If I spend $200,000 on a car, you can bet the computer is coming with it. . . or at least the ability to download info to theirs on-line and get the diagnostic info.
Building decks?
So as long a part of the job includes being watched in the bedroom, all is kosher.
Still doesn’t mean you’d be able to fix the car. Would you, for example, know what to do if the computer told you that the fuel injection system was incorrectly calibrated? I doubt the chauffeur would either.
The fact is, as Dewey Finn suggested, the reliability of modern cars combined with their complexity means that it would be rather pointless to expect your chauffeur to also be a mechanic. If he can change a tire and keep fluids (windshield wiper etc.) filled, that’s all you’d really need.
They have them fancy hats – always wanted one of them.
OK, I hire you to be my cook. I also hired Mr Gravekeeper from a different message board to drive and be handyman. You are now going to share a bedroom.
happy?
No idea about Spain offhand, but in the US you can write a want ad for a job any way you like, and if I were looking for a couple to do cooking, cleaning, yard work, general handyman and driving, I would post an add: Couple wanted to do cooking, cleaning, general handyman and driving. Room, board, and $36000 per year salary. No medical/dental. Wednesday afternoon and Sundays off. <insert contact number>
The married is implied. Heterosexual is implied, though I could add something about EOE [equal opportunity employer] if it even occurred to me. I would also probably hire from word of mouth instead of an ad, but that is beside the point.
There are some job types that are traditionally served by married couples - traditionally ‘caretaker’ when a couple is looked for it is specifically the woman will maintain the cleanliness of the house, and the man will take care of the outside, cars, boats and maintenance as an example. My grandparents had a couple in Canada for the vacation house, one in NY for the summer house there, and a couple in Florida for the winter house. [in addition to a ladys maid that traveled with my grandmother.]