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Some stuff about the factory Apple uses to produce iPods and iPads Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month. Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13. In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues. Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again." In the wake of a spate of suicides at Foxconn factories last summer, workers were asked to sign a statement promising not to kill themselves and pledging to "treasure their lives". |
Apple's iPod factory: sign contract promising not to kill yourself
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Apple would never do anything bad! -
I know I can't comment in these threads without being seen as defending Apple. But isn't this just "Chinese factories". Apple rulz etc. -
CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah this is Foxconn, and they construct loads of different elextronics. Not just Apple stuff. -
Fab4 8,924 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFrance Telecom has had 36 of its staff attempt suicide since 2008....23 of them successful. -
It's apple outsourcing to companies that use labour practices that we in the west fought against. To transfer that to emerging countries who don't yet have such rights for workers is hypocritical and unethical for us to be happy with it to happen there.
Nothing wrong with going to these countries because the cost of labour is lower but they shouldn't allow these practices to occur and, if they do, they should move to another supplier. -
Fab4 8,924 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSorry, make that 46 at France Telecom.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/46-suicides-at-france-telecom-9-at-foxconn-the-human-cost-of-cheap-bandwidth-and-gadgets/1354 -
Someone told them they were French and they knew there was only one way out. -
neilka 24,025 posts
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoneilka wrote:
France Telecom corporate anthem
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They have these big nets outside all the windows at their main Chinese plant to catch them now (not a joke).
They get paid really quite well, the problem is they sleep eat and work in the same place. I like my job, but I'd probably think about topping if I had to live there. -
Lukus 24,640 posts
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Registered 17 years agoPirotic wrote:
...the problem is they sleep eat and work in the same place.
The very definition of an I pad. Pad. Like a house...
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Oh, fuck off. -
Dragul 5,536 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFrom a news report I saw a few months ago they even have stores, cinemas and restaurants inside the factory... O_o -
RobTheBuilder 6,976 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI did read that if iPad2 was made in the US it would cost $14,000... -
spindizzy 7,755 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAargh. wrote:
Apple would never do anything bad!
Bumping an old thread I know, but it's always a bit odd that this is somehow considered Apple's fault (and Apple's alone). Foxconn make electronics for everybody!
Some of Foxconn's clients:
Apple Inc. (United States)[18][5][19]
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
Asus (Taiwan)
Intel (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[20][19]
Dell (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)[18]
Microsoft (United States)
Sony (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[19]
Samsung (Korea)
Vizio (United States)
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FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAt the outrageous prices Apple charges they should take a slight cut and find someone who isn't a cunt to produce their electronics. -
spindizzy 7,755 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFWB wrote:
At the outrageous prices Apple charges they should take a slight cut and find someone who isn't a cunt to produce their electronics.
This old chestnut. They're in the same price bracket as their competitors. You know, the ones also using Foxconn?
Not saying it makes it okay, but it's a bit ridiculous to single out one company here. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoTwo people have been killed in an explosion at a Foxconn factory. 
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spindizzy wrote:
Aargh. wrote:
Apple would never do anything bad!
Bumping an old thread I know, but it's always a bit odd that this is somehow considered Apple's fault (and Apple's alone). Foxconn make electronics for everybody!
But none of those companies have legions of people who'll rabidly defend anything they do. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSay a bad word against Cisco and I'll cut you. -
mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI love the Thong Song. -
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Industrial revolution is now Apple's fault. -
tenofspades 1,805 posts
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Registered 15 years agowhat happens if you break the contract? 
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Tom_Servo wrote:
Two people have been killed in an explosion at a Foxconn factory.
Jesus, that's terrible.
Does anyone know how many iPads have been damaged?
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