Mark Bowes reports:
A state investigation is underway
after authorities said they discovered 20 to 30 boxes of documents, including claims filed by veterans, in a
storage unit once leased by a former Virginia
Department of Veterans Services employee who worked at the agency’s
veterans benefits office at McGuire
Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Veterans Services officials
retrieved the documents Sept. 29 and secured them at the agency’s Richmond
headquarters and are now reviewing them so that all affected veterans can be
notified and assisted “with any necessary action to ensure that their claims
have been properly filed,” the agency said.
[…]
Herthel said the Dinwiddie County
Sheriff’s Office alerted the agency about the documents after the contents of
the former employee’s storage unit had been auctioned off to a bidder, and that
person notified the sheriff.
Read more on Richmond.com.
For my Architecture students. Chasing that last minute will be hard!
Amazon only needs a minute of human labor to ship your next
package
By the time you take an Amazon delivery off your stoop,
walk into your home, find a pair of scissors and open the brown box, you've
already spent nearly as much time handling the package as Amazon's employees.
With 22 years of experience in e-commerce and an obsession
with efficiency, Amazon has brought remarkable optimization to the warehouses
where it stores, packages and ships goods.
On a typical Amazon order, employees will spend about a
minute total -- taking an item off the shelf, then boxing and shipping it.
The rest of the work is done by robots and automated
systems.
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In Fight Against Amazon, Wal-Mart Doubles Down on Robots,
Warehouses
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