21 People That Abused The Smallest Amounts of Power

5.

This guy I work with was in charge of a one-time-only funding project. This dude made people jump through insane amount of hoops and made it a huge fucking deal to get that money. He just had to pick someone which should have taken 1 hour of thoughtful review of people’s abstracts. No… that wasn’t good enough. He was accepting bribes, he was accepting favours, he made people rewrite abstracts or he would tell their director that their abstracts weren’t good enough. He fucking hired a temp worker to be his secretary!

6.

My high school did an end of year celebration (on campus, during school time, it was just the graduating year and the year below us so it wasn’t that disruptive) but to prevent it getting out of control, the school hired 4 security guards. One of them decided to lock all the gates and at the end of the day, we couldn’t leave unless we exited through the office. I’d say there were around 700 students and he just refused to let us leave until another security guard had to fight through the crowd to let him know he was being a dick, he unlocked the gate I was at and then unlocked the others

7.

Worked at the concession stands at the beach one summer. Whenever responsibilities were given out of who was supposed to do what for that day, one of my co-workers would suck up to the supervisors so that they would give him the clipboard for him to decide who did what. After handing out the jobs, he’d go & sit in the little office inside the stand & do nothing while the rest of us worked. One time he assigned me the job of cleaning the boardwalk. I was to take a broom & dust pan & walk the entire length of the boardwalk looking for litter to sweep up. The idiot didn’t know that the cleaning of the boardwalk wasn’t the responsibility of us concession stand workers.

8.

I was in year 3 in primary school, and Father’s Day rolled around. As usual, the teacher had everyone in the class make a card. Now my Dad died when I was one, and previous teachers had been sensitive to this and let me make a card for my Mums birthday which falls a few weeks later. Not this one though. She was adamant that I had to make a Father’s Day card, despite knowing the situation and despite me clearly being very upset. She said that she wasan’t going to make me a special case as it wouldn’t be fair to everyone else, and that if I didn’t have anyone to give the card to then I could give it to one of my friends so their Dad could have two cards. I hope she enjoyed watching me make it.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.