Friday, September 25, 2020

People's Best "No Power Here" Moments


Someone on AskReddit got a fun thread going about the times that egotistical people got reminded that they "have no power here." Well, the thread isn't all egomaniacs. Sometimes, it's a case of someone literally not having power. Like the homie that couldn't pay his electricity bill because he couldn't access the internet he needed to get the job done. It can be a deeply satisfying experience to watch someone who was power tripping all over the place get put in necessary check. 

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Text - doctor-rumack • 2h 3 2 Awards A co-worker friend of mine was flying back from a sales conference in Vegas and he was able to upgrade to a first class seat. We had this bitch sales VP that was on the same flight - she was the snobby, entitled type with a full time nanny and giant McMansion in the suburbs, and she generally treated people who worked for her like servants. She sees him in a first class seat as she is making her way to coach and asks him how he got that seat (he used points t

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Text - voice_of_craisin • 2h One of my new employees came from a competitor who is, shall we say, not as put together as we are. Her former boss had actually called me to yell at me about "poaching" his consultants. Which, in and of itself, is weird enough. However, a few weeks after she started the dude rolled up to our office. He had apparently been calling her to get her to finish an analysis for him and she just ghosted him. I went to the lobby to see what the fuck he was doing here. He star

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Text - voice_of_craisin • 2h One of my new employees came from a competitor who is, shall we say, not as put together as we are. Her former boss had actually called me to yell at me about "poaching" his consultants. Which, in and of itself, is weird enough. However, a few weeks after she started the dude rolled up to our office. He had apparently been calling her to get her to finish an analysis for him and she just ghosted him. I went to the lobby to see what the fuck he was doing here. He star

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Text - mywifemademegetthis • 3h 2e 11 Awards I taught my 6th grade students about democratic processes, and we ran a simulation. Without fail, every one of my classes tried to impeach me. Reply 29.0k

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Text - kaxobixo • 3h 1 Award I was working as a consultant for a company, there was a bit of a competition between me and this guy, company starts to have some financial issues so I leave and start working for a client of theirs. Shortly after joining they bring in this guy I was competing with at my old job, he was technically my equal except now I was employed by the client and he was just a consultant. He was trying to one-up me during meetings and my boss told him that decisions are made by

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Text - Varvatos_Vex•3h A QA 2 25 Awards We had an HR lady who was extremely power hungry. She is walking around with the president of the company who flew in from Japan. She rushes him though the warehouse. Just spits out "oh these are the warehouse guys we don't have to stop and talk to them." He stops walks over and starts talking to me about my last vacation. How buying my house went. You could just see her fuming behind him as we talked for almost 45mins. I've had multiple meeting with him w

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Text - greasedlightning343 • 3h 3 Awards I worked at a Walmart as a cashier, and the assistant manager there was a dick, he would insult everybody working there and forced us sometimes to do work above our pay grade. 6 months later me and him got transferred to another Walmart that was just built and they needed to pick a manager and assistant manager some random got manager but I got assistant manager (I guess all the complaints on the assistant manager basically gave him a demotion) so one day

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Text - epidemica • 2h O &eg 7 Awards In my first apartment, my parents came to visit, and I said "Fuck!" when I hit my head on the open door of the freezer while standing up from grabbing something from the fridge. My mother said "You can't talk like that in my hou..." and stopped midsentence. Reply 13.7k ...

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Text - Pentacostal-Haircut • 2h 1 Award New director. Decides admin should hold a meeting at noon M-F in the nurse's lunchroom and bar them from entering during that time. Defines it in a group text as a "quick win." My response: please help me to understand how this is beneficial to remove the nurses from their lunchroom during lunch break?" No response, his peers and higher-ups in on the text. He Is then moved to the Quality Department. Screwed up in so many levels... Reply 4.0k ...

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Text - TGodfr • 2h 1 Award When my manager at mcdonalds gets into bitch fights with all the agressive/toxic customers and booting them out the store by calling the mall security if they refuse to leave. Reply 2.0k •..

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Text - Bradddtheimpaler • 1h I used to work at a few Subways. Thing is, the owner inherited them when she already had a busy and lucrative career elsewhere. She mainly held on to them to employ immigrant family members, I think. One time, she was in the back when she heard me interact with an angry customer. Afterward, she came out and said, "You know you don't have to take shit like that. I trust you, you can use your judgment and just toss anybody out who talks to you like that." After that I

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Text - goblinmarketeer • 1h I have one that crosses with "I don't work here lady" a bit. I have a job, but I will still do interviews every couple years. this means the script is flipped a bit. They have to convince me to work there. Anyway I got the town early so I stopped at a bakery to get something to eat. the woman went in the back to get it, and this squat toad of a woman walks in, yells at me to get her order and then yells at me again for not getting up right away to serve her. When I po

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Text - The_Atlas_Moth • 2h 13 Awards A few years ago I interviewed for a job (in the US) that was labeled as a senior-level position, which is my level of experience in this field. I go through 2 phone interviews and a stellar in-person interview. Shortly after the in-person interview, they call me and say they absolutely loved me and that I would be a great fit at the company. However, they thought I was "a little too green" (implying I was inexperienced) for the senior-level position, but luck

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Text - There was silence over the phone for a moment and then the interviewer said in an offended tone, "Well we've all had to make sacrifices for [company name]!" To which I replied, "You may have had to, but I don't make sacrifices for anyone." Stunned silence.

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Text - Then the interviewer, who was so appalled that they didn't know what to say, replies, "Well ... Maybe you can think about it and l'll call you tomorrow to check in ..." I said, "No thank you and please don't call me." and hung up the phone. They do this a lot to young females like myself in a variety of industries. Don't take shit from anybody. Know your qualifications, believe in them, and tell abusers to fuck right off. Your talents will be appreciated and paid for elsewhere, I promise

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Text - letsgingerale • 3h 1 Award When my electricity got shut off and I couldn't submit a claim on their website because i had no power Reply 1 4.2k ...

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Text - rancidquail • 2h Not sure if it fits but during an insanely busy weekend before Christmas, a Karen was complaining to every associate about how messy our store was. The manager had relieved the girl at the fitting room and was helping to hang stuff. Karen pulled her crap and was trying to make a point that we were messy and a horrible place to shop. At the this manager told her roughly, "Ma'am we're messy at the moment because we're a popular store. And the biggest reason we're messy is b

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Text - TigerTownTerror • 2h Pretty much every time my in laws come over. For over twenty years they have attempted to dictate how I should live my life, raise my kids, dress, cook, etc. I always just nod and say,"l'll consider that", but not in a genuine way, it a condescending "fuck you" way. When they press it, I simply say, "You may leave my house now". Reply 555 ...

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Text - Nathaniel66 • 1h New CEO came to our deparment on the 1st day of his work. He didn't have a pass card yet and a lower level employee told him that he can't enter without pass card. CEO got upset and ordered a worker to let him in, but the worker insisted: show me the pass card, or you're not entering. Few days later this worker got a bonus. Reply 556 ...

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Text - Lpunit • 2h When I was working at a collection agency for a few months (paid well, shit job) I had a guy call in, absolutely livid. He ranted on and on about how he shouldn't have to pay us. As per how things flow, I advised him that the next step would be to take it to court if he didn't want to pay me. He said something along the lines of: "Well I'm never going to buy from you ever gain!" Dude for some reason thought I cared if he didn't buy from the company that had passed his debt on

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