Ambassadors can ram shopping carts into anyone they see and get away with it! That's quite a perk. Checking pants for meat? Er, well, it's power anyway.

And you can recomp the lost wages if you emphasize the "safety" aspect the right way. "Nice department you got here... sure hate for anything to... happen to it..."

Since the original quote references Oprah and pretentiousness, this seems like it belongs here too. Mmm, schadenfreude...