Inside Foxconn
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But... but... but... where are the 12 year old children chained to the medieval machines cranking out iPhones?
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Working conditions at Foxconn factories have been under the spotlight since a 2010 spate of worker suicides at its plants. Foxconn said it had increased workers pay, introduced counselors, started a 24-hour phone counseling service and opened a stress room where workers can take out frustration on mannequins with bats.[^] I want pictures of the bat room!!!!
I want pictures of the bat cave! (And why do the mannequins have bats?)
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Galaxy S3
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I want pictures of the bat cave! (And why do the mannequins have bats?)
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Foxconn has launched a PR blitz since '10, but child workers for other Apple suppliers: http://www.chinalaborwatch.org[^]
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But... but... but... where are the 12 year old children chained to the medieval machines cranking out iPhones?
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FYI, here's an interesting series from an American reporter from the Atlantic who spent some time wandering around the Foxconn campus, taking pictures. it's probably not what you imagined: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/inside-foxconn-5-food/264033/[^]
This is the part of the campus where Microsoft Surface is being made, the older pictures you have seen were from the Apple products section in the campus. :)
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FYI, here's an interesting series from an American reporter from the Atlantic who spent some time wandering around the Foxconn campus, taking pictures. it's probably not what you imagined: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/inside-foxconn-5-food/264033/[^]
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FYI, here's an interesting series from an American reporter from the Atlantic who spent some time wandering around the Foxconn campus, taking pictures. it's probably not what you imagined: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/inside-foxconn-5-food/264033/[^]
We had nice cafeterias in college, too. The problem was that we couldn't afford to go off-campus for anything. I don't see much of a difference between working for Foxconn and the living-on-campus college experience, except maybe that the work never changes, there is no hope of ever leaving, no hope of a better paycheck someday, and you can't choose your bosses. That would make it tremendously depressing. The whole experience sounds really bad to me.
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We had nice cafeterias in college, too. The problem was that we couldn't afford to go off-campus for anything. I don't see much of a difference between working for Foxconn and the living-on-campus college experience, except maybe that the work never changes, there is no hope of ever leaving, no hope of a better paycheck someday, and you can't choose your bosses. That would make it tremendously depressing. The whole experience sounds really bad to me.
djdanlib wrote:
the work never changes, there is no hope of ever leaving, no hope of a better paycheck someday, and you can't choose your bosses
well, that sounds like 99% of all jobs, ever.
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FYI, here's an interesting series from an American reporter from the Atlantic who spent some time wandering around the Foxconn campus, taking pictures. it's probably not what you imagined: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/inside-foxconn-5-food/264033/[^]
Taking pictures of the cafeteria? How useful. There isn't a company in China that doesn't provide lunch for its employees, and most of the refectories I've been to were a lot better than that one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
