Article created by: Saulė Tolstych
It’s super funny when a person gets a tiny bit of power and loses it. It’s like a little kid being entrusted to handle the kiddy scissors in kindergarten and then feeling as if he is The Lord Of The Rings, Sauron itself, possessing infinite power over his meager subjects.
It’s also pretty sad. But more funny.
Today, we’re here to laugh at and vote on the times when people got a teensy weensy grain of power and then took it on an absolute trip.
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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 cellphones (against policy to have them on the floor) and reported one person because her phone vibrated in her purse. She would time breaks (bathroom and scheduled) 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.
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 lieutenant from second lieutenant 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. Our DO put him in his place pretty quickly, but it’s amazing what a bar on your shoulder or stripe on your arm can add to an ego
A moderator of /r/Food banned me for providing links to the source and recipe of food pictures I posted. Apparently that’s spam.
Not exactly the smallest, but when Theodore Roosevelt became the acting Secretary for the US Navy for 4 hours, he cabled the Navy worldwide to prepare for war, ordered ammunition and supplies, brought in experts and went to Congress asking for the authority to recruit as many sailors as he wanted.
He held the job for 4 hours and did that during the timeframe.
Our tiny community has an email list to join for buying & selling locally. I overheard the woman who sends out the emails saying that deciding what made the email was like playing god every morning.
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, grabbed 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 students spoke up in my defense. Teacher told “Brian” he had done well in making sure no one talked, but he was going to let me do the test anyway.
I put someone “in charge” as team leader of a small crew that was digging a foundation. He tried to fire 3 of the five guys.
Once I was given the honorary title of drill sergeant in middle school. I started yelling at kids and made up my own drill songs. This girl I liked told me later that I was being lame. I told her to give me 20.
There is a button in my car that makes the headrests in the back fall down. I use it to smack people in the head if they try to be cute.
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