What's the smallest amount of power you've seen someone abuse?

Worked for a small computer repair company, four people total.

The boss, two grease monkeys, we did all the small stuff like reformats and virus removal, and the secretary.

It was awesome. I loved that job.

The boss and my co-worker was super chill and helpful.

But the secretary,

we'll call her Lorelei, was a different story. When I started working, I got a text from an

old friend of mine warning me about her. Apparently, I had been hired because he had just

been fired because of her. Okay, I thought, but she was great, very helpful and nice. She'd bring us Starbucks

once in a while, and other little niceties. Maybe my old friend had been the problem.

Anyway, life was great. The months passed and things started to change. The nice secretary

came out one day and told us she was no longer a secretary, but the office manager, and berated

us any time we didn't call her the office manager. It was strange, but whatever. A little

while later, I got called into the boss's office where she is standing right next to him,

like Iago perched on Jafar's shoulder. She tells me my work priorities have been shifted. I was no longer

allowed to work on any computer that came into the shop or go out on service calls. Instead, she said,

I was to monitor and report on our customer's server activity. Uh, okay, I guess this must be important.

For the next week, I'm confined to my desk and printed out small batches of computer jargon

that made very little sense and took less than an hour to do.

When I asked what else I should do, she would intervene before my boss responded and tell me

to try and improve the reports.

Whatever that meant.

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