Before We Dip In (TL;DR)
In today’s issue:
- Amazon makes a pair of controversial business moves. 🧐
- 11-year-old suspended for reporting shooting threat. 🤨
- Coke sues a "knockoff", but it might not win. 🤺
Let's Dip In
BUSINESS 💼
Back To Work
Not one bold choice, but two. Amazon is stirring controversy with a return-to-office mandate for corporate employees and underwhelming new pay packages for warehouse workers.
- CEO Andy Jassy announced last week that Amazon corporate workers will be required to return to the office five days a week starting in January 2025. The shift will affect a whopping 350,000 employees who are currently required to go to the office at least three days a week.
- Jassy claims the move will make collaborative work more “seamless,” but many employees aren’t happy with it. As one anonymous worker simply put it, “The whole situation is just very depressing.”
- Amazon also announced modest pay increases for warehouse workers to a minimum of $22/hr. That’s short of the $25/hr they demanded earlier this year, but hey, look at the bright side: they finally get free Prime memberships while employed.
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CRAZY SH*T 🤨
Do The Right Thing
If you see something, say something. But if you wait an hour to do it, you’re going to get suspended from school. An 11-year-old Catholic school student in Virginia Beach is taking legal action after his school got angry at him for reporting a fellow student.
- A classmate showed the boy a single bullet in class, claiming to find it in his parents’ coin jar. Concerned but not sensing an imminent threat, the boy waited until finishing a test to anonymously report the incident.
- His principal congratulated him for coming forward, yet slapped him with a 2-day suspension for reporting it too late – the same suspension the boy who brought the bullet received. When his mother appealed to the Church, they simply affirmed his punishment.
- News of the incident went viral, ironically leading to bomb threats against the school, forcing it to close for 2 days. Backlash continues to grow as critics say punishing whistleblowers makes schools less safe, especially as school shootings make a resurgence.
VIRAL NEWS 💻
Coke Wars
A small Colombian company is going to war with Coca-Cola, and it might just have a shot at fending off one of the biggest corporations on Earth.
- The indigenously-owned Coca Nasa creates beverages containing coca, the same plant that Coca-Cola has used for decades. It’s native to South America, but Coca-Cola essentially has a monopoly on it due to coca’s potential to produce cocaine.
- Coca-Cola previously sued Nasa over its products but lost after a Colombian court sided with the small producer. Now, it’s suing over Nasa’s new beer called Coca Pola (Colombian slang for “beer”).
- Nasa is now challenging Coca-Cola, claiming the company colonized the coca plant without acknowledging its heritage. Coca-Cola clearly has the advantage in virtually every aspect, but it could be forced to drop its suit as the negative PR piles up.
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