Jun 02 2010

I for one welcome our new corporate overlords

Foxconn Workers in China Say ‘Meaningless’ Life Sparks Suicides

Bloomberg Businessweek

June 02, 2010, 6:04 AM EDT

June 2 (Bloomberg) — Ah Wei has an explanation for Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou why some of his workers are committing suicide at the company’s factory near the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

“Life is meaningless,” said Ah Wei, his fingernails stained black with the dust from the hundreds of mobile phones he has burnished over the course of a 12-hour overnight shift. “Everyday, I repeat the same thing I did yesterday. We get yelled at all the time. It’s very tough around here.”

Conversation on the production line is forbidden, bathroom breaks are kept to 10 minutes every two hours and constant noise from the factory washes past his ear plugs, damaging his hearing, Ah Wei said. The company has rejected three requests for a transfer and his monthly salary of 900 yuan ($132) is too meager to send money home to his family, said the 21-year-old, who asked that his real name not be used because he is afraid of his managers.

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  1. Who needs to pee?

  2. Red white and blue, very patriotic.

    Foxconn’s Longhua complex outside Shenzhen spans three square kilometers (1.16 square miles) and is criss-crossed by tree-lined streets with a water fountain at the center of the facility. Workers wearing polo shirts emblazoned with ‘Foxconn’ in Chinese characters over their hearts walk along the streets. Men wear blue, women wear red. Security personnel wear white. The complex boasts its own hospital, a collection of restaurants and a swimming pool surrounded by palm trees.

    The workers, 86 percent of whom are under 25 years old, live in white dormitories with eight to ten people sleeping in a room. The living quarters have stairs running up the outside walls and the company has begun covering them with nets to prevent people from jumping

    • Edger on June 2, 2010 at 17:20
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    Yer killin’ me here…

  4. in the 16th Century. Heck, it sounds similar to our education system here in America.  

  5. Then there is a, some would say, more “traditional” approach to obtaining the student aid that you need for college.  There are those that raise the student aid that they need.  That’s right, they start their own fund.  They ask people that they know to help them by giving them the money that they need to cover their college costs.  There are those that also have others raise money for them, as well.    

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