What's The Smallest Amount Of Power You've Seen Go To Someone's Head? [AskReddit]

what is the smallest amount of power you see go to someone's head I had to interview a guy who is president of the cha-cha dancing club at my university cha-cha loco when I asked for his full name he scoffed you don't know who I am I said no I was just a reporter for the school newspaper he then said I'm first name middle name second Spanish middle name last name president and financial executive of cha-cha Loco if you haven't heard of me yet you must live under a rock years ago I was the night manager of a gas station I was pretty much just a glorified assistant manager which basically meant I was in charge when the actual manager wasn't around there was a girl let's call her Jill who thought no one worked as hard as I despite calling in sick once a week and generally required constant supervision to keep her from goofing off Jill was working a shift that overlapped my shift in the managers shift after I said my hellos to the day manager and he left to go home for the day I went about setting up for the day Jill comes bursting out of the back room full of piss and Vine gar and loudly proclaimed all right listen up the day manager put me in charge tonight so you have to follow everything I say I found out that from the day manager the next day that he had jokingly told her okay Jill I'm leaving you're in charge of making sure B W underscore bird doesn't slack off on his way out and she took this as an in official promotion she spent the rest of her shift constantly looking over my shoulder and criticizing everything I did she refused to follow through with anything I asked her to do because she thought she was in charge so I no longer had the authority to tell her what to do the day manager actually had to sit her down and explain that she was not promoted and still a regular employee although by this time she had already contacted her father and told him she was the new night manager at the point rank I'm in the military and some people think their rank is like Thor's hammer we had this one guy get promoted to first left tenant from second left tenant in my first assignment basically a 100% promotion rate for that rank and that day started to order all the other LTS around and telling them to call him sir etc are do put him in his place pretty quickly but it's amazing what a bar on your shoulder all stripe on your arm can add to an eggo I used to be an admin on a minecraft server where after you played for ten hours you would get the rank member which gave you access to a couple new commands some really annoying ten-year-old thought that it was a huge achievement when he got that and he started acting superior to all the moderators and threatening them I talked to him over Skype about it and he started screeching at me and saying that he [ __ ] my mom I banged him permanently make sure your kids know how to act semi maturely before you let them play online in any game some shitty admin on a freelancing website he used to be the lowest of the low always helping me out even got promoted to head customer support agent within weeks he had removed my top rated seller status because I complained that he wasn't doing his job properly I asked for the reasons he said he does not have time to give me the reasons income plummeted by 1,000 pounds a month costing me my house she is man glad you got fired a few months later for incompetence our high school had forecast og ins one retired and the next in line was promoted to head custodian both the student body and staff knew it had gone to his head when he posted an announcement regarding Locker inspections for interior cleanliness replete with a shed you love days / times to show up for his mandatory inspections apparently he took it upon himself without the administration's authorization because we heard about it only through him not from official notification by the principal I ran a guild on an MMO and I was in need of some new officers to help around when I cold and get on there was this one guy who got on often played the game well and ran events so we naturally promoted him to officer at first it was alright but then he started mailing me about players underperforming and when he was going to rank up I told him that the guild is pretty casual so if someone is under forming give them tips and if they don't listen just don't run with them and how he probably won't rank up considering he was the highest rank besides guild master he got super upset and left the guild I'm going to speak on behalf of a tiny number of subordinates I had at a fast-food restaurant I worked at a few years back I had 15 years of food service experience when I was hired as a general grunt register and kitchen I did my best to cook ground beef till it was done wash surfaces between different foods prepped and take all normal expected precautions to serve tasty not burnt not contaminated food I was appalled at how little care everyone else took they would set freshly made burgers on surfaces still red with raw meat blood cut raw chicken and used the same knife to cut finished prep etc they would serve the food undercooked right alongside burnt fried food I wasn't making a lot of money and I know they weren't either but it wasn't just whatever we a minimum wage attitude it was sad because the public really liked the food when it was done right and we were very popular very lucky they never made anyone sick when I was promoted to assistant manager the first thing I did was start to correct gently at first and then with more firmness and then finally with sending people home often I made it so I had to work two jobs at once the worst part is that my crew complained to the manager until she made up fake reasons to terminate me so I got a new job and quit before they had the chance the reason wasn't that they didn't like me or that I did a bad job the complaint I heard over and over is that he's been on some huge stupid power trip ever since he got promoted it's pathetic I never ate there again not out of spite but because crew and management conspired to get rid of me because I didn't think you should serve a burger on a bun that has been sitting in a puddle of chicken blood and they disagreed anyone who has been in a fraternity will know that when a newly initiated brother is given the slightest amount of power it's an instant power trip perfect example being our new parliamentarian basically the person responsible for fines he threatened to send my $1 fine to collections if I didn't pay it for cursing in a chapter meeting I told him to [ __ ] himself with a cactus I paid the fine though the guy who was the manager at the Burger King I worked at when I was a teenager we had to get prior approval from him if we wanted to get a haircut or dye our hair or pierce our ears tattoos were forbidden even if they were hidden if he found out you had one he'd find an excuse to fire you same if you weren't Christian he would also drive by our houses to make sure the pit crews weren't fraternizing with the managers or assistant managers on our off hours I heard he's a cop now he'll probably show up on the news someday for shooting a black man for jaywalking or something in seventh grade one of our teachers would ask a student to keep an eye on the room if he needed to step out for a moment mostly the kids were happy to stand in front of the room and watch everyone read or work on a quiz for a few minutes and felt great about their responsibility one time the teacher stepped out and gave the responsibility to Brian while we started a test I asked out loud if anyone knew the date Brian yelled at me not to talk during a test that talking was cheating grab the test off my desk and ripped it in half I'm not joking he actually tore it in half when the teacher came back Brian told the teacher he had stopped me from cheating and gave him my ripped up test that only had my name written on it the other student spoke up in my defense teacher told Brian he had done well in making sure no one talked that he was going to let me do the test anyway parent-teacher Association this lady was crazy threw a big fit because someone brought peanut butter cookies to a meeting and her kid is allergic to peanuts her kid wasn't at the meeting so she goes on this tirade and ends up getting her kids class to be not free which sucks because my kid loves peanut butter sandwiches find out later that her kid isn't allergic she just doesn't like nuts also tried to find people for not helping with a fundraiser week of the event she wanted everyone there for like four hours every night I went for two hours one night and it was a joke just her walking around barking insane orders I told her to suck it and I never went back she said she was going to find me and I said mail it to my lawyer I don't think he ever got the bill I went to a rugby game a few weeks back and I assume this guy was the bar manager at one of the overpriced liquor windows they have at the stadium he looked like a fatter balding older toady looking version of the poor man's Josh GAD he was just lingering around the queues finding young women to take up to the front of the queue with an obsequious madam here you go yes come up to this line his piss hole in the snow eyes darting around looking for someone fresh to lord it over or perhaps a glow flight a snack a prawn when he wasn't busy belittling his boss staff and let's face it bar staff at a stadium aren't exactly pick of the crop as a general rule but hey we all need an income he was just a [ __ ] possibly physically to find some customer he could [ __ ] up the day of by telling them that they looked drunk and could only buy one drink at a time instead of four I saw him get his way a few times and his face just took on a kind of glow not unlike the glow you might expect from the sight of massive skin infection I've never felt such scorn for someone I don't know but I know my instincts were on point when I got back to my seat and the stranger next to me overheard me talking about Tony and felt the need to put in his own shall see about this sad little man my for the university's adadmin I studied computer science and my laptop was pretty weak I used to work all night weekends and preferred working out of the Atlantis this a asterisk hol leav anyt admin the typical reddit neck bird fat slob II know it all [ __ ] had weird roles in the bitter cold averse northeast he had a rule that stated nobody could eat inside the computer laps since I worked there all day and night I would usually keep my sandwich with me and eat it after 11:00 p.m. one night this mongrel was taking a stroll in the corridor saw me eating my sandwich told me either I throw it out or he was going to lock my account to the department Network I tried reasoning with him and said I will close it and put it in my backpack he insisted I throw it because otherwise I might come back and eat it when he's not around it was the moment I felt the most helpless in my life I couldn't afford to get locked out the department lab since I had some huge program running whose results were due soon I couldn't afford to throw away a $7 sandwiches I was a foreign student here on scholarship it was a snowy midnight in December when I did not have any option to go buy myself anything else I succumbed to his threat went and trashed my sandwich in front of his eyes he gave me a dirty grin and left I felt helpless alone and lost I had nobody to go and talk my heart out I was almost in tears at my own miserable situation I hated my life back then once I volunteered to be a vest for a parade basically I got a brightly colored vest and a bicycle to help keep people behind the parade route lines help floats if they got into trouble misc stuff like that I got beer tokens as payment after the parade was over I turned in my vest got my deer tokens and went to the party at the end of the route I got to the longest line for cheap beer and opened my mouth and took a deep breath okay so I just spent four hours using my loud-ass voice to shout at people now that it was over shouting at people and watching them do what I said had become some surreal form of normal I exhaled closed my [ __ ] mouth and waited in line like a human being basically being a parade volunteer made me think I had the power to cut in line for beer but my meat brain kicked into gear just before I made an ass of myself most surreal moment of my life we promoted a call center employee to shift manager she was a nice dependable hardworking and pleasant girl within days she was hiding behind potted plants trying to catch people looking at their cell phones against policy to have them on the fluor and reported one person because her phone vibrated in her purse she would time breaks bathroom and shadows just itching for someone to return late this chick suddenly got semi orgasmic at the thought of getting others in trouble we moved her to an administrative position and eventually fired her I had a friend in another city who was living in a shitty room and bored situation and I wanted to move there so we decided to get a place together I gave him my share of the damage deposit in first month's rent he live there so he found the place he put his name on the tenancy agreement so he figured he was my landlord and he was in charge of every little thing in the house I needed work so I helped the landlord in some renovations we had a leak and a minor flood for the equivalent value in free rent which really pissed him off because I was going over his head and interfering with his future legal case against the landlord which never happened he ordered the male key so I needed permission to get my mail eventually I lost it on him and demanded to get my name on the place on paper or I would leave so he evicted me the next month he had to move out because he couldn't afford the place my old friend opened his own tutor shop experienced success and soon had the most popular shop in town we live in an artsy city and people started recognizing him out and being like I love your work I'd like to get a tattoo he thought he was some celebrity that could act in any way he pleased he started partying constantly then wound up being an alcoholic meth addicts that is now in prison another guy around here was co-owner of a whiskey distillery and thought that he was a god I remember waiting in line to get into this bar they were having a big show so they closed their doors at 6 o'clock to prepare then reopened an 8 o'clock he thought that they should let him in and then got further pissed that they made him wait in the line twitch TV channel moderators so to preface this was early 2014 and I was watching a rather large stream over 10k viewers and the streamer was joking around and was like if I lose this I'll make a random person mod well he lost and I got picked so his dream went on and not much happened to me I don't talk and chat much so it was like I was waiting the mod icon around or trying to troll the screams chat but I did timeout a few guys spamming for 30 seconds well after his stream I get a message from one of the mods telling me basically don't go thinking you're a real mod here I worked for months and have dedicated countless hours to his stream blah blah blah and you're just a poser I replied saying something to the effect of hey mods name I never meant to cause any issues I just won a random drawing for it and I know it isn't for real and that I won't be modded for long he then replied something like whatever you better not be getting any ideas you're not a real more so don't act like one at this point I have just forgotten about this and go to watch another smaller streamer and him talking in chat normally and bam I'm plumb banned from talking in chat and guess what the mod that got upset with me was in the chat he ended up banning me in every chat he modded of people I followed mostly while streamers so I got banned in 80% of the chats of channels I watched I got unbanned in most the streams by another popular mod who heard my case and ended up getting that Mort to message the streamer to D mod me so the harassment would stop for over three months after this because I frequented the same channel some small but it didn't so i neva tably had to start a new account [Music]

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Length: 17min 1sec (1021 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 01 2020