My 73 yr old father fell down in a bush outside Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, NE.He was visiting his wife in intensive care. He couldn't pick himself up. Bleeding from the thorns in the bush, he asked for help. Hospital employees came out and said they were not allowed to help him. They called an ambulance service (allowed to help) and my father cried in the bushes until they arrived and escorted him to the emergency room.

Gotta admire their honesty for putting themselves at number 23!

That never would have happened at a Target.

Now I do like the idea of turning K-12 schools into sweatshops -- that's private sector innovation you just can't get when gummint's in charge!

Sorry, can't resist:

Manic in Sillycone Valley, part one — Cheerleading new economy rag blows hot air into the tech bubble.

Would've printed all the submissions were the internet big enough.

It is things like this that I think about when I hear 'tort reform.'

Punitive damages are the way we say 'don't be a dumbass' to corporate america...

And the president wants the country to be run more like a business . . .

This is an interesting story. I can see it not being Walmart policy, or even the way they like to do business -- same with many other companies whose employees do dumb things like that. But the companies, I think, are responsible for these actions, because they've drummed into employees the need to do things in just a certain way with no deviations, and also the need to squeeze every penny of profit out of a transaction. This, along with the fear of losing their job that companies typically use to "motivate" employees, leaves these people shell-shocked and afraid to use any judgement or initiative. It culminates in silly episodes like this -- episodes which no doubt baffle the corporate heads, even though they've played a big part in creating the problem.