Amazon , a fellowship magnificently know for itstactandgracewhen dealing with workplace hardships enounce this calendar week it would start placing puppy paw print icons on delivery routes days after one of its drivers was allegedlymauled to deathwhile delivering a package .
On Wednesday Vicepublisheda substance institutionalise to some driver titled “ Dog Awareness / Engagement ” which happily called on workers to watch out for , “ our - four legged customers . ” The message said Amazon would add a “ paw mark icon ” in a machine driver ’s delivery note to inform them they should , “ be mindful of a dog at this stop . ”
“ If we bed Fido is nearby , we ’ll lend the paw photographic print to give you a top dog up , ” the note place to drivers reads . “ As always , connect with the customer to aid you with the pet , or ‘ Driver Support ’ in the Delivery App if you ca n’t reach the client . ”
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The deceased Amazon number one wood was reportedly found stagnant in an Excelsior Springs , Missouri yard earlier this week , hem in by two highly strong-growing dogs , harmonise toNBC News . Police from the Ray County Sheriff ’s bureau make it on the prospect after neighbors reported meet an Amazon van park alfresco for hr . Deputies shot and pour down the two dogs when they arrived on the tantrum .
Though Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers tell Vice he could not definitively say the death was get by the dog until an official autopsy report was released , he said the gadget driver experienced a , “ fantastic amount of trauma to his body logical with canine bit . ” The sheriff said the driver cope to deliver their computer software before he died .
“ It [ the packet ] was sitting at the front door , ” Childers told Vice .
Amazon drivers discussed the attacks and Amazon ’s reply in several group chats viewed by Gizmodo and , in some cases , spoke out against Amazon for failing to ply adequate condom measures .
“ Shit materialize and Amazon does n’t make you for matters of context like that , ” one driver spell on a Discord server . “ Especially as half the design many of these families are grow a dog for is for protection from unknown . ”
In other cases , drivers recount scenarios of running away from attacking dogs or even plug them to avoid being bitten , only to later have customers report the drivers to Amazon support . Several drivers criticize the pure tone of Amazon ’s messaging following the onslaught .
“ Like , they ’re making bally cute jokes after a guy rope was viciously kill ? ” another driver wrote . “ Anyone have a good word for something to hold against a dog ? ”
Amazon did not respond to Gizmodo ’s request for scuttlebutt .
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