Amazon’s Response to Mauled Driver? A Paw Print Emoji

Amazon, an organization famously identified for its tact and grace when coping with office hardships stated this week it will begin inserting pet paw print icons on supply routes days after one in every of its drivers was allegedly mauled to death whereas delivering a bundle.

On Wednesday Vice published a message despatched to some drivers titled “Dog Awareness/Engagement” which blithely referred to as on staff to be careful for, “our-four legged customers.” The message stated Amazon would add a “paw print icon” in a driver’s supply notes to tell them they need to, “be aware of a dog at this stop.”

“If we know Fido is nearby, we’ll add the paw print to give you a heads up,” the be aware despatched to drivers reads. “As always, contact the customer to help you with the pet, or ‘Driver Support’ in the Delivery App if you can’t reach the customer.”

The deceased Amazon driver was reportedly discovered lifeless in an Excelsior Springs, Missouri yard earlier this week, surrounded by two extremely aggressive canines, according to NBC News. Police from the Ray County Sheriff’s workplace arrived on the scene after neighbors reported seeing an Amazon van parked exterior for hours. Deputies shot and killed the 2 canines after they arrived on the scene.

Though Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers instructed Vice he couldn’t definitively say the dying was attributable to the canines till an official post-mortem report was launched, he stated the motive force skilled a, “tremendous amount of trauma to his body consistent with canine bites.” The sheriff stated the motive force managed to ship their bundle earlier than he died.

“It [the package] was sitting at the front door,” Childers instructed Vice.

Amazon drivers mentioned the assaults and Amazon’s response in a number of group chats considered by Gizmodo and, in some circumstances, spoke out towards Amazon for failing to supply ample security measures.

“Shit happens and Amazon doesn’t prepare you for matters of circumstance like that,” one driver wrote on a Discord server. “Especially as half the purpose many of these families are getting a dog for is for protection from strangers.”

In different circumstances, drivers recounted situations of working away from attacking canines and even punching them to keep away from being bitten, solely to later have prospects report the drivers to Amazon assist. Several drivers criticized the tone of Amazon’s messaging following the assault.

“Like, they’re making fucking cute jokes after a guy was viciously killed?” one other driver wrote. “Anyone have a recommendation for something to defend against a dog?”

Amazon didn’t reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark.