“What Is The Smallest Amount Of Power You've Seen Go To Someone's Head?” (30 Answers)

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.

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.

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.

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."

Most of the cops in my area act like they own the entire county.

Assistant to the regional manager.

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.

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.

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.

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.