Real Life Stories of Fantastic “You Have No Power Here” Moments
The phrase “you have no power here” is often used when someone is confronting an entitled person who’s trying to exert power over a person or a group of people.
If you’ve ever worked in the service industry, then you probably know exactly what that feels like since you’re basically taught to stay quiet and avoid confrontation at all costs.
But isn’t it nice when you finally have the right to put an entitled egomaniac in their place? Well, if you like the taste of justice, then you’re going to LOVE this Reddit thread that massively blew up.
Some of these “you have no power here” moments took place at work, but others happened right in people’s own homes.
Grandpa Rocks
Nothing feels worse than being talked down to, especially by your parents. This is something Reddit suer abeast0333 knew all too well. Luckily, they had their grandpa on their side.
“My parents were yelling at me and then my grandpa walks over and tells them both to sit the hell down. They both shut the hell up and sit their butts down on the couch.
It was by far the most powerful thing I’ve ever seen him do lmao.”
Company Decisions
There’s nothing more annoying than a co-worker that tries to upstage you to make himself look better in front of the boss. No one knows this better than Reddit user kaxobixo, who had a co-worker that was totally trying to one-up him to get the company to notice him.
They did, too, but not the way he wanted.
“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 the company not the consultants.
It felt good.”
The Bonus
Most people, not even Reddit user Nathaniel66, would ever dream of defying the CEO of a company because they know they’ll get fired for it. But one lower-level employee in their company did and the CEO’s response was shocking.
“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.”
Set Free
Living under your parents’ roof isn’t always a picnic. This was something Wolfsbane776 was well aware of because they had a controlling father. But when their dad kicked them out, the balance of power shifted in the kid’s favor.
“When my crappy father kicked me out of the house and then demanded he have access to my bank to “control my financial situation” and I got to tell him “you have no control over me anymore.
You set me free when you kicked me out and now you can’t do anything.””