5A- Identifying Local Opportunities

1. They live with autism. But it hasn't prevented them from getting jobs in South Florida 

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This article is about the potential for future careers for people with autism, trying to find them different opportunities and ways to make an income and to profit a business in any regard. A program was created to create businesses that employ people with autism. As a result, many individuals with autism have gotten employed and helped a business grow. The problem presented in the story is trying to increase the usage of people with autism in the working world such as any person who works a job normally. The people with the conflict are the people born with autism who have to learn how to work at a job, overall the amount of people with autism is increasing in work places.

2. New cruise ships need thousands of workers. Here's how companies fill those jobs

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This article is about the up and coming of new boats that Holland America is in the process of launching and the hiring process behind the workers of their ships. It goes on to say that they research throughout east Asia and other locations for their employees. They don't just hire anybody due to their recognition of customer service and the reputation they want their customers to have of them. The problem presented in the story is the lack of employees and search of new ones to join the new ships they are releasing in the coming future. Holland America is the one with the problem as they need to find these new employees to fill the ships.

3. $6,400 in checks she didn't write were cashed. Cops arrested the cable guy

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This article is about the forging of $6,400 worth in checks. A Boynton beach customer of Hotwire Communications noticed that her checking account when down $6,400, noticing that checks were written out that she realized she had not done. After evidence of an employee from Hotwire Communications showed up, they knew it was a fraud and the employee had committed the charges. The problem in the article is that an employee wrote himself $6,400 worth of checks to himself and took the money from a customer of the company he worked at. The customer from Boynton beach is the one with the problem since she lost that money.

4. I tried to cancel my Priceline hotel cancellation, then Priceline kept my money

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This article is about a person who booked a hotel in Israel with priceline with the notion they were capable of canceling after booking since that is what the website stated. After a notice in a cheaper price elsewhere, the person contacted priceline which ultimately ended in them saying you couldn't cancel your reservation and it was un refundable. It turned out the customer took a screen shot of the advertisement as proof. Overall priceline, made the adjustments and made it right with the customer after the conflict. The problem in the article is lack of rule following by priceline as they did not honor their own statements on their website. The consumer who purchased the reservation had to deal with the conflict until more people got involved.

5. More than 68,000 pounds of chicken recalled after wood was found by some customers

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This article is about the recall of over 68,000 pounds of chicken by large chicken distributer, perdue. It was recalled due to multiple customers finding pieces of wood in their chicken nuggets. The problem in the story is that perdue was selling chicken products with chips of wood in them. The customers are able to return and get a full refund for the problems of this chicken. The customers who are buyers of perdue chicken are the ones with the issue and had to report the wood found in their product.