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'''Basic Trope''': A newly-promoted person begins throwing their weight around and acting arrogant to their colleagues, with bad results.
* '''Straight''': Alice gets a promotion and immediately begins treating Bob and Carol like dirt.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice gets a promotion and immediately begins treating Bob and Carol like slaves, expecting them to carry her around on a throne and whipping them when they step out of line.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice gets a promotion and becomes kind of a [[Jerkass|jerk]], but otherwise still the same.
* '''Justified''': Alice has never had any authority or power over anyone else before, and has gotten a little over-excited with it.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice, previously a bullying supervisor to Bob and Carol, is demoted, thus forcing her to develop humility.
** Alternatively: Alice gets a promotion, and suddenly everyone starts treating ''her'' like dirt.
** Alternatively: Alice, a [[Jerkass]] - but skilled - worker, is promoted and becomes a nicer person, since a supervisor would have to be polite.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is promoted, and everyone expects her to start throwing her weight around; instead, she acts as nice and friendly as she always has been.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice is promoted, and everyone expects her to start throwing her weight around; instead, she acts as nice and friendly as she always has been. Because she's secretly plotting to screw everyone over in order to get herself more power and influence.
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice is given an extremely minor and insignificant promotion, causing her to throw her weight around to a ridiculous degree.
** Alternatively, Alice becomes ''literally'' drunk with power... In addition to being pushy and egotistical, her speech becomes slurred and she can't walk in a straight line. After she's demoted, she has a hangover.
** Alice's promotion results in her developing a [[A God Am I|God complex]].
** It turns out that "throwing your weight around" is actually in her new job description and she apologizes for it.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's behaviour gradually isolates everyone she cared about and who cared about her, leaving her with nothing but her career success to validate her life. She soon discovers that it's [[Lonely at the Top]] and that she is miserable and alone, a failure despite her success.
* '''Reconstructed''': Her success brings her a lot of money and power, and that's all she really cares about, so she's happy enough.
* '''Averted''': Alice gets a promotion. Things continue much as they always have.
* '''Enforced''': "Wouldn't it be funny to see Alice become a complete tyrant? Let's give her a promotion!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Who exactly thought promoting Alice was a good idea? She ''always'' goes mad with power whenever she's promoted."
* '''Invoked''': "Now that I've been promoted, I can finally do whatever I want around here!"
* '''Defied''': "Come on, it's just a slightly different job; why would I let it change me that much?"
* '''Discussed''': "I don't care ''how'' sweet Alice usually is; this whole 'promotion' business is only going to end in tears for all of us."
* '''Conversed''': "Geez, is anyone in these stories capable of getting a promotion without turning into a complete asshat?"
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