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“What Is The Smallest Amount Of Power You’ve Seen Go To Someone’s Head?” (30 Answers)
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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#1
Any Homeowners Association board member in America
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago (edited)
HOAs: Recreating 'The Lord of the Flies' with condominiums.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
And that's why I have never lived in an HOA and never will. I don't care if your HOA has the best and cheapest homes - I invite your HOA to p**s up a rope.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
The last thing I want to do is voluntarily give the neighborhood Karen and Boomer Bob power over my home life. So, sorry? No.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I live in a town full of subdivisions (alpharetta ga if you're interested) and they all have the dreaded HOA. Took about 7 months to find, but purchased on a 2 acre plot of land without one and everyone I know wishes they did the same. Also I'm gay so we were afraid that if someone had a problem with they would use us as targets. Nope.
Lisa B 2 years ago
I moved into a home on a Saturday, was going to take the UHaul truck back Sunday morning. HOA slapped a sticker on the truck window about how this truck can't be parked here, ON OUR FIRST NIGHT THERE! Took me an hour with a razor blade to get the dang sticker off. So glad to move out of that place!!
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
I am fortunate that my HOA pretty much leaves us alone but there are some really bad ones out there.
High Mamii Melo 2 years ago
If you don't want somebody in your business, don't live in an HOA. It's sooooo simple.
Carlos 2 years ago
To be fair, those bloodsuckers actually hold quite a massive amount of power. u don't follow the rules, u get a ticket. U don't pay the ticket, u get more more tickets and interest builds up. Eventually, they can foreclose your effin home, sometimes they'll foreclose AND buy the home. Absolutely terrifying.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
HOA's r like unions. The purpose behind them is great, and when done PROPERLY, is great! But all too often, they aren't
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#2
When the teacher put the stapler on Jerry's desk. She could have put it on any desk, but she chose his. He proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes as the Stapler King, giving the stapler to people he felt were worthy. I needed the stapler but I had to wait 5 minutes while he debated with himself over whether I was worthy or not. F**k you ,Jerry.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
No doubt Jerry was the sort of person that when he started working in an office would come in to find his stapler encased in jello
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. You could’ve been anything. You chose to be Stapler King?! F**k you, Jerry!
Rebecca Gunder 2 years ago
Ineffective, clueless teacher if teacher was not aware of Jerry's Stapler Power Play. If aware of what Jerry was doing, teacher should have politely taken it away.
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
Why am I picturing Jerry singing "I am the stapler king!" To the tune of "I am the pirate king" from the Pirates of Penzance.
#3
Missed a parcel by the postman and got the slip through my door to go to the depot. Card says wait 24 hours before collecting. Figured I'd try my luck and went there anyway. Guy takes f*****g ages to get to me as he clearly doesn't give a f**k (as always, anybody who lives in Britain will tell you Post Office staff in depots are hopeless) and then finally takes my slip off. I see him go to my parcel, PICK IT UP, then notice the slip says wait 24 hours. He genuinely refuses to give me the parcel as I haven't waited. F*****g d**k- give me my parcel!
Turn up an hour later, a different person is on the desk. Get my parcel no problem.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago (edited)
The reason for the 24-hour wait is so that the parcel can be returned from the mail carrier's possession to the post office. If it was already there, the carrier never intended to deliver it, but planned on giving everyone a slip that day. My carrier does this habitually, because he's too lazy to drive down my 100m driveway and get out of his truck.
Viktor 2 years ago
They bring the parcels to the office at the end of their route. The 24 hours are to ensure that you don’t go the office and it’s not there yet. If you go there in the late afternoon it might very well have been dropped off already. If you seriously think that your driver gives out slips systematically instead of delivering then complain to the carrier, they do take this seriously.
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Dave C 2 years ago
Ex UK postie: most rounds are 20 - 30k steps, sometimes more. Overloaded carts and dozens of small parcels to deliver in 5 hours if possible. Hidden post boxes and vicious letter boxes that'll rip the skin off your fingers plus dogs, gates, traffic, wind, rain etc. It's not all cups of tea and bored housewives.......
Phyllis Turbin 2 years ago
I hope you mean management. Craft must follow their orders or get disciplined.
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sara fulmer 2 years ago
I read to the second sentence and was like, " this boy 'bout to be Played"
#4
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 beer tokens and went to the party at the end of the route. I got to the long a*s line for cheap beer and opened my mouth and took a deep breath.
Okay so... I'd just spent 4 hours using my loud-a*s 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 f*****g 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 a*s of myself.
Most surreal moment of my life.
BakedKahuna 2 years ago
This (the vest thing) reminded me of that brat that refused to grant me entrance to the stadium for a soccer game because the ticket wouldn't scan at the first time. She accused me of getting a fake ticket. After that it was because I only payed a ticket for a child instead of for an adult. Then she said it was impossible for someone like me to afford these kind of tickets. She refused to try and scan it for a second time, but tried to kick me out. It was an important game that day and we had premium seats. It was busy and took forever for me to wave someone else down to solve that issue. In fact she was about to get physical because apparently I held up the line. Hope she got a good kick out of it, before she got in trouble that racist b. Missed a whole quarter of the game. It's been years but still makes me angry.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I like this one. Shows that even normal everyday people can get caught up in the moment and treat people poorly if they aren't careful. Glad you caught yourself!
Joshua David 2 years ago
Glad that you shared it was yourself as well as your epiphany moment.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
Years ago, a friend of mine invited me to be his guest at a Boy Scout event at a now-closed amusement park. Since BSA was taking over the entire park for the entire weekend, there were signs up at all the food vendors telling people that alcohol wasn't available. My friend and I had the misfortune to get behind a family where the husband/father insisted on trying to order a beer, and he became rude and abusive to the staff when they refused. Took about ten minutes longer than it should have for my friend and I to order our food, because this idiot refused to believe that BSA didn't want to sell booze to people.
#5
I used to be an admin on a Minecraft server where after you played for 10 hours you would get the rank "Member", which gave you access to a couple new commands. Some really annoying 10 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 f****d my mom. I banned him permanently. Make sure your kids know how to act semi-maturely before you let them play online in any game.
K W 2 years ago
I couldn't help but laugh at this one but it's pretty much the same behavior I've seen from some other 10 year olds with access to technology and zero supervision. They can be pretty hard-core bullies over text if they have phones when they're that young too. My 9 year old tries to convince me that everyone he knows has a phone, and plays games with friends online and I'm like well I guess you'll just have to be uncool until middle school at least.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
Sad part is most of those kids do have phones at 10yrs old.
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TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Used to love hearing them screech through the mic...Tell them to "chill out bro" and listen as they screech to whole new levels...
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I have fun with the "your mom" insult these days...takes a while before I reveal that she died 10 years ago from cancer, which usually shuts them up.
𝕷𝖊𝖘𝖇𝖎𝖆𝖓𝕭𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍️ 2 years ago
I would die of embarrassment(sorry for your loss though)
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Junebugjump! 2 years ago
When I have a Minecraft server the 10-year olds were monsters. Some of them were so bad, abusive, racist, misogynistic, bullies. I’d check the chstloogs daily. A few of them, I found their moms on FB and sent the chatlogs with their IP addresses, IGN and the horrible things they said/did. Then I permabanned them. I mean, I had the server so I could play with my son and have fun.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
Haha make sure your 10 year old acts maturely online😂. I’d be downs with that if 85% of adults could also act mature online.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Watch some "gamer rage" videos, you'll find that the terms "semi-maturely" and "gamer" are often mutually exclusive terms.
Carlos 2 years ago
Clash Royale bro... I was in a Clan and the Leader accidentally demoted himself, meaning someone else became Leader.... This dude, the new leader, was an a*****e, and basically kicked everyone out of the group who asked him to return the leader status to the previous OG leader....and that's how my US top 100 clan was dismembered
Fat Harry 2 years ago
There ought to be some way of preventing young children from playing games with adults, for both of their sakes.
Littlebunnyfufu 2 years ago
To be fair, it's often really tough for parents, especially those who aren't tech savvy, to monitor everything. We're lucky that both of us are tech savvy and one of us is a programmer. Kids are often *really* savvy and can find surprising work arounds. So, it can be a moving target. And, during the pandemic there was so much use of technology all at once. There are ways lock things down, though, including not giving children access to online play. We had it set up with parental controls and they could only play online with people known to us, not in servers. It made it really difficult to find and friend people, but that was the point. Plus, they only were allowed to play in common areas in the house so not only locked down but also monitored in a way where they had some freedom but it was known we were paying some attention.
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#6
Teacher here - making a student in charge of the glue sticks. Acted like I'd given them a veto in the UN.
#7
I had a friend in another city who was living in a s****y room and board situation and I wanted to move there so we decided to get a place together. I gave him my share of the damage deposit and first months rent. He lived 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 horded the mail 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.
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Two guys in a cheap apartment. One pays the rent, the other does nothing but crow about how HE signed the agreement so HE'S in charge. Nope. That's not how life works.
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
One huge reason I never had roommates when I was young...I had a huge control issue. Meaning it was my way or the highway but it was also Russian roulette on which issue would set me off. So, I stayed as a lone renter when I moved out on my own. Now, I'm still alone but willing to accept anyone who loves to clean...like dishes, I need my dishes done. 😂
#8
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.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Some people are born to be eaten by Monitor Lizards.
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I'm surprised she got fired, but advanced to admin just before. This is pretty much how call centres are run. Micromanagement to the extreme.
Pheebs 2 years ago
Had a teammate get moved to a senior position, which ultimately wasn’t any kind of supervisory thing - he was doing what he already did, it just finally had a set title/position description. We had a set of team standards (think SOP) for our work, and he was in charge of making sure we’re maintaining those standards, and training new people. Standards were still a vote process as we all had to agree with them. Within a week he was making up new standards and trying to force them on the team. And as far as training new people? Most of that fell on me as he suddenly decided his work days start 2-3 hours after everyone else’s because he “got more done after [we] left”. I finally had to go to our manager about the guy, as he was turning full dictator and I was sick of being the rebel leader. Guy eventually left for a higher paying position elsewhere, and now I’m senior (since I was already doing the job). I’ve asked the team to let me know if my inner dictator starts taking over.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
Promotion probably freaked her out and she didn't know what to do, and so that was where she put her focus instead of trying to learn her new job
Cheryl Tber 2 years ago
I worked with several people that this happened to. It was a call center, so there you go.
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
Knew a dude at a call center who would walk around like the senior manager's mini me. Oh how we all laughed at him. He was no different then the rest of us peons on the phones. He was just walking the floor as a helper. The job rotated around to various employees. I did it very often. Nothing to doing it just help other employees with questions. But there he was.... Mini Me strutting about.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
What's that called, The Peter Principal? Getting promoted to the position you can't perform.
#9
My former university's IT admin. I studied computer science and my laptop was pretty weak. I used to work all night, weekends and preferred working out of the IT labs computers. This A*hole of an IT admin, the typical reddit neckbeard, fat, slobby, know it all dips**t had weird rules. In the bitter cold of US northeast he had a rule that stated nobody could eat inside the computer labs. Since I worked there all day and night, I would usually keep my sandwich with me and eat it after 11pm. 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 sandwich as 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.
Mike_The_Nike (He They) 2 years ago
i would’ve wrapped it back up and taken it back out of the trash can and eaten it. (if that sounds gross to you i once ate sour patch kids off of the ground. at school. outside.
François Carré 2 years ago (edited)
Coming back to France from Argentina, I had to commute between two planes in Madrid. The airport there is pretty big, it was 5 a.m. and I naively asked a guarda civil who was standing there for directions. The man was probably bored after a long night doing nothing and he wanted to make fun of me. Accused me of carrying drugs, made me unpack all the stuff I had with me, found some aspirine which he claimed was cocaine. I felt pretty miserable. Then he had enough and just let me go. A*****e.
Attila Ángyán 2 years ago
I would have wrapped it tight, throw away and fish out from the bin the moment he turns his back. And make sure to leave breadcrumbs literally everywhere. Or just buy a kilo of breadcrumbs and sprinkle random places every now and then.
#10
I had to interview a guy who is president of the cha-cha dancing club at my university, ChaChaLoco. 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 am Firstname Middlename SecondSpanishMiddlename Lastname, President and Financial Executive of ChaChaLoco. If you haven't heard of me yet, you must live under a rock."
#11
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
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Did you expect people who had the idea of rank pounded into their heads during basic to act any other way?
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago (edited)
Yes. Because most military people (I’m talking US military) don’t take it that serious. There is some level of decorum and respect that you have to pay to higher ranking people but it doesn’t just magically happen the day you get promoted. It has to be earned.
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Bread 2 years ago
Military wives, too. Insufferable. (not all, just the sucky stereotypical ones)
Bad Mole 2 years ago
Even worse, as they have no rank, just their illusions.
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Von Ham 2 years ago
It's always the d-nozzles who "wear their rank" that ruin the party. What's worse?... a d-nozzle's spouse trying to wear their rank in public. There was a story of a Colonel's wife in the Xchange who tried to cut in the checkout line. Someone called her out. She said "I'm so-and-so's wife!" The person replied... "I don't care who you're f*cking!... get to the back of the line!"
I give up on society 2 years ago
Oh I love those guys. So many super glued shoes so little time
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
LTs learn quickly not to mess with NCOs--- the Art of Humbling is a NCO craft passed down for thousands of years.
Brenda Greene 2 years ago
I always thought it was funny when I was in the Army to hear wives of officers do the "Do you know who I am? Or I'm a X rank, even though they were just a spouse of X rank.
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
Cripes, what an a**. Promotion to O-2 is all but guaranteed, you have to be a complete screw-up to not get it.
Bad Mole 2 years ago
Only if they want to be the first casualty on deployment.
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Cari Owens 2 years ago
Even if the dude had the same rank as the other LTs that didn't mean he was equal in rank. Yes, that makes sense if you know that if two (or more) people have the same rank, the one who attained it first outranks the others. For example, you have two captains, one was promoted on [X] date and the other on [Y] date. The one promoted on [X] date has a "higher" rank, even if it's by just one day.
#12
A moderator of /r/Food banned me for providing links to the source and recipe of food pictures I posted. Apparently that's spam.
Lauren S 2 years ago
Wait… is spam short for spiced ham??? I think I thought it was an acronym like ‘square processed almost meat’ or something…
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Robert T 2 years ago
Really? Are you sure that it wasn't auto-moderation? I occasionally have to deal with this on FB groups when someone posts something with links in it. Some of them get a bit arsey when their posts appear to have been moderated, but it is just an algorithm, and when we know about it, we can check and restore the post. FB is a bit rubbish at letting you know when it has auto-moderated something.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
I was briefly a member of a certain food page on FB. The group admin thought nohting of posting as many recipes as he liked, or dispensing as much "advice" as he liked. I started to get disenchanted with the group pretty quickly--he'd post a recipe, someone would ask a question about it, and most people could answer the question without fear of reprisal, but if I recommended a different spice, or cooking technique, or cooking utensil, from what others had suggested, suddenly my comment was "removed for not contributing to the discussion," or "marked as spam." I voluntarily left the group within a month.
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
I got banned for doing that ages ago (think 90s) because the mod of the page claimed it was copyright infringement. Once even just gave detailed directions on how to locate a good article on the topic everyone was chatting about. They asked for a simple link but per mods warning I gave the directions. Mod gave me another warning. J***A** told him off. Luckily I was able to write a novel about it before he blocked me forever.
Dragons Exist 2 years ago
Funny considering half the content on BP is taken from Reddit... like this post.
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Some s****y admin on a freelancing website.
He used to be the lowest of the low, always helping me out.
He then 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 £1000 a month, costing me my house.
Cheers man.
Glad you got fired a few months later for incompetence.
#14
I worked for a small used game store and the one girl that worked there was made assistant manager and instantly felt that meant that she didn't have to do any work and could just tell me what to do. When the owner came in and saw that I was doing 90% of the work he gave me the title of "weekend manager" and told me that I didn't have to listen to anything she said.
#15
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.
Caleb Harper 2 years ago
He as doing the actual Secretary a favor. Doing all the stuff he wished he could and not he can came back with his hands clean and maybe some extra funding
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
Bit like the speed at which Liz Truss f****d up the UK economy in less than three weeks.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I'm so confused. I though Brexit had hurdled the U.K. into the deepest pits of recession from where no light could ever escape. Now I find out it's all Liz Truss's fault.
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And apparently his efforts were great in that it prepared us for the war with Spain.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
So...when was this? Was there a reason for it maybe? Hard to know without more info for context
#16
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.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago (edited)
God's 'Buying and Selling Locally' email: For Sale. Small blue planet. Fixer Upper. No reasonable offer refused.
Pyla 2 years ago
I remember email lists. I loved Mediev-L, women's bicycling, and some pet ones. The equine rescue one I was on was semi-insane. There is an adage in the horse world if you don't know any crazy horse people, it's probably you. Well, I was on the email list with all the crazy ones. At least I still have my horse and he's been excellent.
Pheebs 2 years ago
Lol. A fam member of mine was telling me about a buy/sell Facebook page moderated by the local military wives. Talk about a power trip. They have a rule that once you post something, you’re not allowed to retract your post, even if you do so immediately. Apparently, a mod is required to always be on duty, refreshing the heck out of the group so they can screen shot every item that gets posted. If you take down the post, you get harassed until you put it back up. I’m sure you get a black mark on your “record”, and shunned by the community at all events. I get honoring a policy, but these people take it to a horrible level. I wonder if they expect to be treated as if they have their spouse’s rank.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I play God every day. He always wins, though. (And, Deity, using that "Hail Mary pass" all the time tells us just what a mama's boy you are.)
#17
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.
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
Teacher probably wanted to avoid confrontation instead of teaching a life lesson.
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Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
I would of told the teacher I didn't need to do the test anymore Brian said I didn't have to.
#18
Reddit Mods
oh snap
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
the meme of posting something inappropriate while mods are asleep will never get old.
James Edwards 2 years ago
I have to agree here! WHAT? Iam banned, but I really needed a banana for scale!
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
You should see Wikipedia mods. At least Reddit mods mostly stick to protocols for their groups, even if those protocols are highly idiosyncratic. Wikipedia mods know everything about everything: only their favorite newspapers can be cited, they know which bureaucrats to trust over peer-reviewed literature; they know when a 40-year-article establishes the mainstream of scholarly thought, and when it's obsolete rubbish. The saving graces of Wikipedia are the discussion and history pages. NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING on Wikipedia without checking out the discussions and history pages! (But if you do that, it IS a good way to catch yourself up on some learning really quickly.)
Janet C 2 years ago (edited)
I was permanently banned from "Am I the A*****e" for being 'too blunt"
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
They didn't even tell me why I'd been banned.
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#19
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.
Susie Rogers 2 years ago
I like how the picture on this one is so random and has nothing to do with the actual text.
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
should have moved the 5 guys to another job site and the superstar dig it himself
#20
The one who became the admin of a facebook page, with 23 likes. I made it with another guy, and we were posting cool images for our friends. Anyway, one of our other friends wanted in, so we added him. A bunch more of my friends liked the page, taking us to just over 50 likes. The new admin went insane. He banned people, tried to bar the other admin, then tried to initiate a coup, by telling our viewers that I and the other admin had gone insane and that he was he only one who they should trust. I just deleted the page, and told him to make his own. He was none too happy.
#21
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 handing out 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 f**k himself with a cactus.
I paid the fine though.
Casper Mijacogeo 2 years ago
Fraternities and sororities need to be abolished. Only smug jerks would even consider belonging to one.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
In college, fraternities and sororities identified who to avoid and made it much easier to do so.
Becky Montgomery 2 years ago
Same happened in my sorority. The person who had been nice was given the job of checking rooms for cleanliness. Poof! If ANY trash was in your trash can, you got dinged. The tyranny ended when a quiet person snapped in a chapter meeting and did a Sally Field yell, saying "I DEMAND the right to have trash in my trash can!"
#22
Landlord of government-subsidized housing in a s****y part of town. * Immediately used any conceivable lease violation to get 75%+ tenants to "2nd strike" (3rd is "automatic" eviction) * Encouraged 2nd-strike tenants to anonymously report their neighbors in return for leniency * Lied to tenants, their lawyers, and their family members about violations * Had individual visitors banned over rumors of illegal activity (from the 2nd-strike crew) * Has written up people for "loitering" outside their own apartments after 10pm. Not loud gathering-type loitering. Stepping out to smoke, even. * Drives her in-crowd to appointments, etc. * Completely unequal enforcement of all rules.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
One caretaker I had ( a couple) thought they ruled the building and everyone's lives. Wouldn't give proper entry notices, nor clear instructions about pest control procedures for tenants, harassed tenants about non-existent issues or things that were out of the tenant's control, meddled in their lives. One day the lady told me she "loved putting the fear in tenants". This was when she was somewhat cool with me shortly after I moved in. She became a total b***h soon after. She accused my daughter of running down the stairs and shouting when she had a busted foot and wore a walking cast. She had to be slow going down the stairs. She also likes to sing. It was during the day and she was just going to her friend's who lived in the same building. The caretaker was trying to gaslight me, saying I did hear her shouting. I didn't. When I called mgmt they said it was a "she said, she said" issue with no proof of evidence. I told them my kid's in a cast. Still didn't budge.
Alix Pitcher 2 years ago
Sounds like Jared Kushner's company. They would collect a deposit and first & last month's rent from their tenants, and then evict them on the slightest pretense. They got away with this because their tenants were too poor to avail themselves of legal help.
Carlos 2 years ago
He is probably selling spots or "bumps" on the line for those places. Meaning the more people that get kicked out the more people he can charge for a spot. There's usually tons of people in line for government subsidized housing, so people would likely pay a good amount to get a bump on the line.
#23
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 hair cut 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 some day for shooting a black man for jaywalking or something.
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
Reporting is important. He hopefully would not have been able to become a cop if his illegal stuff was reported.
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Our local landfill built a plywood booth near the front gate and installed their longtime bulldozer operator, an older lady who was morbidly obese and a heavy smoker, as the full-time attendant. "If you EVER show up here again with a No-Tarp you'll be banned for life," she said, taking a long pull on her smoke. "Banned from the landfill for LIFE?" I asked, suddenly thinking that this might be a badge of distinction. "For LIFE!" she replied, adding sternly, "This is a WASTE-FA-CILITY, not a f****n' dump."
Patricia Murray 2 years ago
It's been my experience that people who are newly promoted often become a hard a*s. I always felt they did these crack downs so upper management would think they were correct in who they promoted. I've seen it again and again.
Violet Bunny 2 years ago
With her being morbidly obese & smoking like a chimney, don't worry, she won't live much longer!
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
Lol banned from a landfill? Oh, no! My life will be so incomplete if I don't get to visit a giant heap of garbage ever again!
#25
Most of the cops in my area act like they own the entire county.
Bread 2 years ago
A kid who pulled a kn!fe out on my friends and I when I was 14 is now a cop in my town. Fun times.
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Prince of Darkness 2 years ago
that's most cops. they'll swear it's only a few bad apples givning the rest of them a bad name, but of course the "good ones" don't do fucƙ-all to weed out the bad ones, even when they know exactly who they are and what they're doing to "give them a bad name." sorry, pig, there's only one person in the world who can give you a bad name, and that's YOU
Elio 2 years ago
It's always funny that the use the "bad apples" metaphor because the original phrase is "a rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor."
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Spittnimage 2 years ago
They have the power to lock you up so I can see them feeling like they own the place.
Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
" most " ?? I recommend avoiding the UK, geesh these " people " have got a power trip on, always, always covering each other's backs when they do dodgy s***....
Doug the Special one 2 years ago
Or wanted to be bullies. Or thought they were bullied. Or thought they wanted to be bullies. Or thought they wanted to be bullies. Or maybe they just realised they were in charge.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Cops: bullies who act as judge and jury with everyone they encounter and they expect to be treated like the king. GFYA
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
small town im guessing. cops in my hometown would follow you for 30 minutes just waiting for any reason to pull you over
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
But if you do their bucks parties 😆 you can beat them up, ride one like a horsie and my favourite draw a smiley face on their balls so they can introduce said balls to the rest of his cop friends - if you’re reading this Cheery-Nut, I miss your cheery nut 😂 I was their designated stripper for the night, but they basically did all the work for me
#26
Assistant to the regional manager.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
We have a junior head Gardner. Basically a doing nothing poodle following his master a.s
#27
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.
#28
Our high school had 4 custodians. 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 schedule of 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.
K W 2 years ago (edited)
Aw man custodians are so under appreciated too so it's too bad it went to his head. When I read this I pictured him as the janitor from scrubs though.
Violet Bunny 2 years ago
Hope someone informed the principal, so he (principal) could whack the custodian's ego down a few notches!
#29
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.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
You could always spot the Johnston children because of their enlarged foreheads.
#30
My third grade teacher was in charge of the "red dot" which was a red circular piece of construction paper she would hang outside her classroom. It indicated it was too muddy to play on the baseball field at recess. So many stories and anecdotes involving the red dot. Even 3rd grade me saw she was drunk with the power.
Violet Bunny 2 years ago
Well I guess she didn't want the kids to muddy up the classroom, much less go home from school in that condition! The parents would be furious!
#31
when i worked at mcdonalds, a guy was "temporary manager" while the actual manager ran out to get something we ran out of. it was my first day. he threatened to send home 2 of the experienced people because the average times were 1 second above the corporate goal, 10 minutes into his time as manager. he got his hours cut pretty quickly after (wasn't that good a worker anyways) and never figured out why.
#32
My old friend opened his own tattoo 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 addict 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 6:00 to prepare, then reopened at 8:00. He thought that they should let him in, and then got further pissed that they made him wait in the line.
#33
Manager.
Gets the thinnest shred of authority and turns into a tyrant.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Becoming a manager is in some respects like growing up with abusive parents. Some people copy those that have gone before, others rebel and vow to do it better. I was fortunate to have some appalling managers that taught me how NOT to manage people.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
If they don't take the time and costs to train their managers, whaddya expect?
#34
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 a 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, yessssss, come up to *this line*", his p**s-hole-in-the-snow eyes darting around looking for someone fresh to lord it over. Or perhaps a blowfly to snack upon. When he wasn't busy belittling his bar 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 itching, possibly physically, to find some customer he could f**k 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 site of a 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 Toady and felt the need to put in his own 2c about this sad little man.
Pyla 2 years ago
The British can insult with an arresting array of talent.
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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 stream went on and not much happened to me (I don't talk in chat much so it want like I was waving the mod icon around or trying to troll the streams chat but I did time out 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 your a real Mod here I worked for months and have dedicated countless hours to his stream... Blah blah blah.. And your just a poser" I replied saying something to the effect of "Hey *mods name* I never ment 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 moded for long" he then replied something like "What ever you better not be getting any ideas your not a real mod so don't act like one." at this point I have just forgotten about this and go to watch another smaller streamer and im talking in chat normally and BAM I am perm 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 moded of people I followed (mostly wow streamers so I got banned in 80% of the chats of channels I watched. I got unmanned in most the streams by another popular mod who heard my case and ended up getting that mod to message the streamer to DE mod me so the harassment would stop for over 3 months after this because I frequented the same channel (some small) but it didn't so I inevitably had to start a new account. Tl;dr Got moded in a big twitch chat as a joke. A real mod got upset and banned me on almost all the channels I followed that he moded for because he thought I was a poser twitch mod.
#36
"Team leaders" in retail. You get an extra 10p an hour because you've been working so long yet they don't actually trust you with a real promotion. I hated 80% of the "team leaders" I worked with. Lazy as f**k and quick to blame.
#37
The Gymbro guy who thinks he owns the public gym.
Literally said to me once, "PM come in my gym, can't tell me what to do."
#38
Spongebob as hall monitor.
Thomas Klobucnik 2 years ago
The hall monitor in Funky Winkerbean sitting at the desk/machine gun emplacement.
#39
Have you ever witnessed a perpetually single friend gain interest from the opposite (or same) sex?
Jesus. From Pepe to Jefe in 2.5 seconds flat.
#40
The V.P at my highschool was about 4 foot 10 and wore a hair piece. I think he took his job as vengeance for his childhood or something.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
People who take vengeance for their childhoods should wait till it's finished.
#41
RAs in college
whatever 2 years ago
I was an RA but was a laid-back one. This was my whole orientation meeting with the residents: "What you do in your room is none of my business, unless you make it my business.....oh, and also be sure to stick a rolled up towel under your door when doing whatever "business". Ok then ? Cool...".
What do you think ?
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’ve seen many of my classmates back in 2nd and 3rd grade get very egotistical after being assigned the class monitor. I used to take bribes from my friends when I was a class monitor (by bribes I mean their tiffin food) until I started to realise how f****d up with was and also when it stopped being “cool” to be a class monitor
Betsy Ray 2 years ago
Here in the US, two baking show winners, both pleasant guys, became judges on different baking shows along with much more experienced judges. Both men have become the most petty, nitpicking and patronizing of judges. They're both unwatchable. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even when it's about cream puffs.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Every single claims examiner at the US Department of Labor it has been my displeasure to have assigned to my claim (which is 25 years old now). They violate the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with regularity, forcing me to appeal multiple times, all of which I've won. They just enjoy making disabled people miserable. No punitive measures are taken against them for having violated federal law, and the Act prevents claimants from seeking redress in court. It's frustrating as hell, especially since the appeals process takes about a year, during which I have no income.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I got a new one! One of my crewmembers recently was promoted to chief steward. Admittedly she deserved it as she has been working for the company for years, I'm still a baby there. Her first time solo after training and supervision was in December and she was amazing at this, I told her I would work with her any day. Fast forward to last month and it's gone to her head. She's flexed whatever little power she has, loves being bossy to the point of condescending, micromanages, always needs to know what you're doing at all times and always finds something that is wrong. She wrote up two crewmembers for the absolute dumbest reason. After dealing with the back sliding for months, I called up my boss and the scheduler to put me on a different boat and a different rotation so that there was no chance I'd work with her all summer. I love my crewmembers and I'll miss them this season and maybe it's better to go with the devil you know, but I was close to losing my temper at her.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 2 years ago
All these stories, and not a single mention of static electricity? I'm disappointed...
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’ve seen many of my classmates back in 2nd and 3rd grade get very egotistical after being assigned the class monitor. I used to take bribes from my friends when I was a class monitor (by bribes I mean their tiffin food) until I started to realise how f****d up with was and also when it stopped being “cool” to be a class monitor
Betsy Ray 2 years ago
Here in the US, two baking show winners, both pleasant guys, became judges on different baking shows along with much more experienced judges. Both men have become the most petty, nitpicking and patronizing of judges. They're both unwatchable. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even when it's about cream puffs.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Every single claims examiner at the US Department of Labor it has been my displeasure to have assigned to my claim (which is 25 years old now). They violate the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with regularity, forcing me to appeal multiple times, all of which I've won. They just enjoy making disabled people miserable. No punitive measures are taken against them for having violated federal law, and the Act prevents claimants from seeking redress in court. It's frustrating as hell, especially since the appeals process takes about a year, during which I have no income.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I got a new one! One of my crewmembers recently was promoted to chief steward. Admittedly she deserved it as she has been working for the company for years, I'm still a baby there. Her first time solo after training and supervision was in December and she was amazing at this, I told her I would work with her any day. Fast forward to last month and it's gone to her head. She's flexed whatever little power she has, loves being bossy to the point of condescending, micromanages, always needs to know what you're doing at all times and always finds something that is wrong. She wrote up two crewmembers for the absolute dumbest reason. After dealing with the back sliding for months, I called up my boss and the scheduler to put me on a different boat and a different rotation so that there was no chance I'd work with her all summer. I love my crewmembers and I'll miss them this season and maybe it's better to go with the devil you know, but I was close to losing my temper at her.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 2 years ago
All these stories, and not a single mention of static electricity? I'm disappointed...
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