The Smallest Amounts Of Power People Got Drunk On

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Eric Lund
Oct 17, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

They say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But give one person autonomy over a coffee maker or a copier and watch as they reign over their microscopic empire with indomitable will and fist of iron. Seriously, give the wrong person authority over something as small as a broom closet and they'll manage to turn it into a broom kingdom. For a power play, here's an unreasonable boss who threatened a deli guy's job, to which he said "okay."

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    Font - Some-Mango - 9h The woman in the office that was in charge of the coffee fund. She had a list of rules for using the coffee machine. One was you couldn't brew any after 1pm. Even tho we had a few people that liked coffee in the afternoon. Then she didn't buy coffee with the fund because people weren't following the rules. So someone else just bought coffee and brought it in. She didn't like that either. I think eventually the people she clashed with just brought in a new machine and did t
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    Rectangle - Yingthings 1Oh · edited 2h Sadly, me as a 4th grade volunteer crosswalk guard. I would literally make the kids wait until there was a car I could stop. I really thought I had legal authority when I put that vest on. traffic kid
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    Font - RealHot_RealSteel - 9h 9 I forget the circumstances, but once my wife and I ended up at a busy theme park during their Halloween festival with an entire booklet of front-of-the-line passes. I'm talking 150 of the suckers. Effectively infinite rides on a packed weekend. We rode so many roller coasters in a row that I was sick as a dog mid-way through the night. We still planned to enjoy the park (scare zones and food and such), but no longer had need of the blessed booklet. So we strolled
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    Font - Christhebest2 - 9h The canteen lady at my old school. The deputy principal blamed the students for littering what we called 'juicies' (which are like ice blocks) around the school. But what would you know? It was the canteen lady, who me and my friend found scattering the wrappers around the school and claiming it was the 'students' Makes me laugh to this day.
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    Font - illogicalfuturity · 7h I frequent a milk tea place that is popular with young people. There's this so called influencer who'd try to get free stuff at businesses in exchange for her giving them a shout out. Tea place refused and she blew a gasket, like she talked about how much money she has and how she's gonna be famous. The cashier told her to not be so cheap then as their most expensive item is around 2 dollars.
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    Font - requisitename · 9h Years ago, while driving the U.S. gulf coast from Texas to Florida I was passing through Pensacola, Florida when I became confused about which turn I needed to take. I pulled just off the highway onto the edge of a massive empty parking lot and pulled out my large map. The nearest building was nearly a quarter of a mile away and I was just on the edge of this gigantic, unfenced parking lot. A rent-a-cop drove all the way from the building in a golf cart, got out and sho
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    Font - Magnus_40 - 5h I once helped with first aid at half-marathon and one guy had a single job to do; he had to stand at the bottom of a road and direct the runners down one of two roads. Since there were barriers across to road it was a no brainer and impossible to screw up in any way, shape or form. He decided that, despite the road being closed to traffic and contrary to the very simple instructions he was given, the runners MUST run on the pavement. Cars=Road therefore On Foot=Pavement. He
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    Font - kilgore_the_trout - 2h Any member of an HOA council is the saddest king of the stupidest hill.
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    Font - HeadlessManhorse · 6h e When my cat learned how to close doors, she started trapping the other cat in the bathroom by luring him in and pulling the door closed from underneath. She also pushes doors closed on me. I'm not sure if you could call it drunk, but she is very clearly pleased with herself when she does this (tail up, purring).
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    Font - Normal_Narwhal · 5h I once taught English in an international school in Egypt. The school was run by an Army General in the Egyptian government, and was pretty poorly mismanaged. We had a guy there who was responsible for some general maintenance around the school, but happened to have his office in the same room as the copy machine. Every day, teachers would bring their papers to his room to copy them for class, and every day the man would tell us to "leave it on his desk," where there'd
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    Font - Sh.:y_Life_Coach - 9h Handing out sodas from a cooler/ice chest. He decided it was up to him to choose what flavor people received, because it wasn't self-serve. When the pettiness of this was brought up, he decided this authority was the hill he would die on. It became quite the thing.
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    Font - HELJ4 · 5h A head of year at my school, late 2000's. She would literally scream in your face if your uniform wasn't perfect. She introduced a stamp system so that you'd get detention after a number of "offences". It lasted a few months before a parent highlighted it wasn't legal (or something) to give after school detention for such an arbitrary reason .
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    Font - Rhamba - 5h Project manager. The way the company was set up, he was no ones boss, had no influence over the workers, and handled only a sales portion of the administrative side, and some material logistics and housing for the workers. I.e. We called him and said "we need x by this date" and the only thing he could respond was "yes" or "i can do It by this date at the earliest" That was his whole job, and somehow he believed he was everyones boss.
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