Really? ...Seriously?

So, I was informed today, while at Walmart, that I could not operate a bulky metal cart [one meant for moving heavy objects alike furniture] myself... because it posed a safety risk to either myself or others... what training course that requires, I don't know. However, yesterday, yes, yesterday, the day before today, I was allowed to operate one no problem.

Though, this isn't the incredibly stupid part... what's so fucking dumb, is that while we can't move a bulky metal cart because of the safety issue, it is apparently fine & dandy for us to move things that weigh hundreds of pounds on & off of the cart without help.

Granted, we could request help if we wanted to burden those people more so than they already are with employment as horrid as Walmart [don't look at me, I wasn't shopping there, just helping others who couldn't move what they wanted to buy by themselves]... though, being somewhat of decent people we weren't trying to do that... hell, my friend & I were only there to help move heavy shit, might as well do it or it makes our presence as redundant as the half assed corporate policies that wouldn't let us operate something as simple as a fucking cart, while we could move around enough weight to kill somebody, all in the name of "safety".

Meanwhile, when somebody tells you something so stupid, you know it isn't in the name of safety, the entire dumb-fuck of bureaucracy is all about liability... & if it becomes liability that's one thing, but be honest about it & say so. Don't tell me, "you could hurt yourself" because that insults my intelligence, it implies that I'm stupid enough to injure myself with a bulky metal cart...

Now, as far as how these types of bureaucratic dumb-fucks are going... well, let us just take a look at the financial institutions currently faltering [there's a fucking time & date on the post & if you're too fucking stupid to look it up in reference to the economy, fuck you, you're the sort of imbecile who'd hurt somebody with a shopping cart & create a bureaucratic dumb-fuck of policy to enforcement over liability!] as a result of what was supposedly "bad loan practices"... at least, that's what you'll get told by some jackass reporter on a major news network.

You go ask your local friendly patron at damned near any blue-collar bar in the nation & they'll tell you that the entire scenario boils down to the rich making sure they stay that way... not that I frequent bars, though, I smoke enough pot with people who do to be able to tell you the sort of shit that they'd be liable to say.

As far as me & my ultimate opinion... well, this is all about the empirical control of wealth & power structures. This is about trying to stymie the cycle of death & rebirth within the global economic structures... truth be told, it has far less to do with the sanctity of the working man than damned near anything else, because commoners barter their ways through the turmoil that those grasping for a hold on the empirical control over wealth & power structures face in times like these. The real threat here, is the commoners who don't try to barter, though, lunge for the reigns & take ownership & have hold of the course & decide the direction for the future wealth & power. That's what all this "bailout package" talk is about...