Comments on: Foxconn, Apple and Hell

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:13:29 +0000

Dee – Thank you. Horrible. I keep thinking it’s better to be a hobo than to suffer such pointless humiliation.

Josh – Thanks!

Coby – Yep, thank you.

sisi – Thank you. Totally fucked up situation.

By: sisi

sisi — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:16:39 +0000

Hey sister wolf,
High five for the wonderful post. I went to China like 7 years ago, and was told by the local factory workers that the meanest employers in Shenzen is not from Hong kong, not from China, but from Taiwan. That’s is the employer of FoxConn. Apparently the workers are not allowed to pee, and only allowed for 15mins lunch break, and work like 16 hours a day. They got lured into a good wages compared to other factories, but they had to sign their life away before they join only to realized their gruesome work requirements. Hope this explains things.

By: Coby

Coby — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:16:02 +0000

Just read this, unbelievable

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2085005/300-Foxcon-staff-Xbox-360-plant-China-threaten-mass-suicide-pay.html

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:39:34 +0000

Here is some amazing reporting on the issue by This American Life. Act Two has back and forth dialog from different perspectives.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:56:16 +0000

Aussiearn – Thanks for the info. I am happy to bash them all.

By: Aussiearn

Aussiearn — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:58:04 +0000

List of tech companies that do business with FoxConn…
If you don’t hold all of therm to the same standard you are just an Apple bashing hypocrite

Foxconn manufactures consumer electronics for a number of well-known companies, including:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)[16]
In 2011, Amazon and Foxconn formed a joint-design manufacturing company. The move was meant to produce an Amazon branded smartphone sometime in 2012.[17]
Apple Inc. (United States)[18]
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[19]
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)[18]
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[20]
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

By: m

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:31:42 +0000

reality is painful

By: m

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:30:53 +0000

Apple products aren’t the only things manufactured in China you all seem to forget. There’s clothes, shoes and loads of other things to think about. One couldn’t possibly stop buying these because of the workers’tragic situation, because certainly it’s not the only factory which treats its employees like slaves ! I want people to stop complaining for once and actually come up with viable solutions, I want opinions on what we can actually do to change this !! And it’s not going to be solved by an online petition unfortunately …also, China isn’t the only country with this problem …

By: rosecity

rosecity — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:02:27 +0000

I’m not a low-payed worker in Asia, but reading the job description quoted below, I realized that living here in the U.S. I’ve worked two jobs that fit this description. One, with the shift length and bathroom break policy, and another where I lived in a 6′ x 10′ room shared with four people, with a similar common area situation, for four years. The things we do to stay employed.

“That only works if you think you’d feel lucky to work a ten hour shift with forced overtime, where you raise your hand to use a restroom. You’d have to feel lucky to live in a dorm room with seven strangers and can only watch TV in a common room with bench seating.”

By: wool&misc

wool&misc — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:26:10 +0000

THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU.