Mind Control?

Don't look at him too long...

I try to not pay much attention to kid (especially disney) movies, but I can't seem to avoid hearing about Disney's latest mega-hit movie Frozen.  The worst part of it is hearing the title song, Let It go, everywhere I effing go. Apparently, the song has become such a huge hit that it's damn near ubiquitous.

It isn't bad enough that I have to listen to my toddler-age niece sing the song ad nauseam.
The other day, I stopped in a business and what's blaring on the loudspeaker? Let it go.
Turn the radio on in the car, the deejay is talking about Let it go.
Check out youtube, Let it go tribute/parody videos on the home screen.
Watched America's got talent the other day, there is a choir of kids singing Let it fucking go.

I'm convinced that there is some sort of mind control programming at work here.  Why such a brash accusation, you might ask?  Although I've never liked the song or heard it in its entirety, the shit still gets stuck in my head-for like a day.

I guess creepy-ass Disney figured they wouldn't make a huge enough profit without hypnotizing the masses (and their offspring) into seeing the movie 35 times and having to buy every Frozen branded product known to man.

Strongly agree or Strongly disagree?

Recently, someone I know has been job hunting. Most of the jobs are peon retail positions, at places like Petco, Hot topic or the generic shoe/clothing store-for close to minimum wage.  I'll admit, I haven't had the (dis)pleasure of job hunting for a while, but I can't fucking believe the hoops people have to jump through nowadays to try to land a job! In addition to the usual crap, like work history, education and references, applicants are now required to consent to background checks, credit checks and 200 question personality evaluations!

After watching my job-hunting friend spend a solid two hours on one of these crap-lications (sorry), I asked her, "are you applying to a pet store, or the CIA?"

Finally, after all of this rigmarole, the potential employer may or may not honor the applicant with a generic email stating: "if you meet our qualifications, we'll contact you for an interview. "

For me, the kicker is going to said workplaces and seeing the semi-functional, drooling simpletons that are already working for these companies. I always wonder to myself: "wait, this is the kind of shining superstar of an employee that makes it through the application equivalent of a Tough Mudder and actually gets the job?"

Maybe I've got it all wrong, and the real purpose of the personality questionnaire is to find the densest, least independent-thinking applicants who'll make the best corporate worker drones.