<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Page 7 <comment-reply@wordpress.com><br><b>Date:</b> June 15, 2024 at 8:15:37 AM EDT<br><b>To:</b> kaye.j.zimpher@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Feds: Pepsi Discriminated Against The Blind</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Page 7 <comment+ei4u2qli2f27wezw5a_7r93l@comment.wordpress.com><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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If you’re looking for something to drink, or somewhere to work, choose Coke, not Pepsi.
According to multiple published reports, PepsiCo hired a blind man for a call center, then fired him rather than ge… </span>
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<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> If you’re looking for something to drink, or somewhere to work, choose Coke, not Pepsi.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> According to multiple published reports, PepsiCo hired a blind man for a call center, then fired him rather than get him a screen reader – even after a state vocational rehabilitation counselor offered to buy the equipment.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> This kind of employment discrimination is way too common. If I ran every story I saw, <em>Page 7</em> could easily be nothing but stories about such crimes by big companies. Also consider that for every case prosecuted under federal law, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of cases where the blind person just slinks away without a fight, and you begin to understand the scope of the problem.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Hats off to this unnamed would-be employee for standing up for his rights.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “PepsiCo hired a blind worker for a North Carolina call center, then fired him after he requested accommodations, federal officials said in a lawsuit,” wrote Olivia Lloyd in the <em>Charlotte Observer</em>.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accuses PepsiCo of discriminating against the man for his disability, according to a lawsuit filed May 31.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “McClatchy News reached out to PepsiCo for comment and did not immediately receive a response.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “In April 2022, the company hired the man for a customer service position at a Winston-Salem call center, federal officials said in the lawsuit.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The man told PepsiCo’s human resources coordinator that he was blind and asked for screen reading software to help him perform his job, which included fielding calls from customers, entering orders, working through issues with soda machines and sending help to customers’ locations, according to the lawsuit.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The man’s vocational counselor at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services spoke with PepsiCo and “offered to purchase a laptop, screen reader, and other technology as needed” to help accommodate the new hire, EEOC attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “Federal officials said the company told the counselor it had to handle accommodations internally,” Lloyd wrote.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The man’s initial start date came and went as PepsiCo put him on unpaid leave to figure out the accommodations, officials said. The company said their software couldn’t accommodate a screen reader, according to the lawsuit.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “Human resources employees told the man they were going to get new software in 2025, but upgrading the current system to be compatible with a screen reader could cost up to $1 million and take over a year, officials said.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The company said it didn’t have any other positions that would work for him and fired him, according to the lawsuit.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> “The EEOC says the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation, then firing the new hire.”</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> If you are inclined to boycott corporate criminals such as Pepsi, you can reach for Coke in the grocery store. According to google, national restaurant chains Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters, Ihop and Red Lobster all sell Pepsi products. You could seek out the main competitors of these chains and buy their products instead.</p>
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Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> You could go so far as to look up who sells the various bottled water and energy drink products and make your purchases accordingly. </p>
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Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Most people won’t go that far to penalize Pepsi.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Also, calculate if you will, the odds that Pepsi’s competitors have clean hands in regard to employment discrimination.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
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