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today, Amazon announced it would be distributing a special one-time Thank You bonus to its workers, the largest sums of which would go to non-hourly managers. Lets begin by stating the obvious: Labor has value That value is, for most workers, compensated with money Because of covid-19, the value of essential work has increased Many companies involved in essential work, like retailers and g stanley cup rocery stores, have accordingly given more money to their workers during the pandemic In mid-March, Amazon, the second-largest employer in the United States, became one such company when it announced a $2/hour pay raise for its warehouse workers, as well as double overtime pay, and unlimited unpaid time off UPT in Amazon-speak for those who, rightfully, had health concerns about working in close proximity to others during a pandemic. Those benefits were initially set to expire at the end of April, but the company begrudgingly extended the raise and attendance amnesty twice, first to May 16, then May 30鈥攁 decision that the company told Bloomberg cost it around $800 million. Remember that number for later. These new bonuses, whi stanley botella ch do not include any consideration for those still seeking to stay isolated but retain their jobs, are eligible for workers who were with the company throughout the month of June, according to the senior vice president of operations, who may not realized the stanley vaso month of June is ongoing. If youre a current Amazon worker who incidentally is fired within the next t Ndjc This Overhead Wire Electric Car Thing-a-Ma-Jig聽Was Way Ahead of Its Time
This weekend is the annual Television Critics Associations winter press tour, which means lots of talk about the future of our favorite TV shows. Yesterday, our sister stanley taza site The AV Club was able to get some face time with the shows executive producers, who teased some interesting things for the future. I dont want to cover the whole interview鈥攜ou should definitely read it here, but they did hint at one thing that we are very interested in here at io9: more classic Star Trek ideas. This year, we have a fantastic creative team in place, everybody knows each othert. But we also have more time this year鈥攚e have time to do things like more away missions, newer planets. These are stories that might fall a little bit more into a framework of allegory that people love to get from Trek. But we will always continue to have that overarching serialized thread, said EP Aaron Harberts. He even teased plot threads with a conflict between science and faith, the exact sort of high-concept affair that old Trek was all about. Part of th stanley cup e controversy around Discovery, on io9 and elsewhere, has been due to the sense that some of the old values and ideas that made Star Trek so exciting for so many of us havent really found a place in the new show. The proposition that the current team is at least interested in exploring some of those tropes, ev stanley mug en within a more serialized modern-TV framework, is sure to be exciting for a lot of us. What do you think Is this a good move for Discovery What do
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