Horrible Suicides by Workers at Foxconn Facility Shenzhen China
Do you own an iPhone or have you ever acquired something from Sony, HP or Dell? If so you’ve likely acquired something made at Foxconn in Shenzhen China.
The giant factory in the town of Shenzhen China employs 275,000 folk by some reports and 425,000 by others. Whatever the amount of employees is, they are said to only make only about $130 per month… How would you feel working 10hr shifts on a fast paced, incessant production line for just SIXTY FIVE CENTS PER HOUR? Do you think anyone in the west that BUYS the millions of gadgets being made in China would actually WORK at one of those facilities?
And the worst part about working at Foxconn; you come from a tiny farming community and haven’t ever left it before. You have never been away from your folks farm, and now your family is far away and you can’t see or talk with them. You dont know anyone where you work and likely dont even begin to know the men and women that you live withinternal the walled-in Foxconn compound. How long before you end up going mad?
The working conditions in the big facility in Shenzhen are most probably not very good. Foxconn makes many billions of bucks in profits, and one worker when talking about the working conditions had this claim :
I love to sometimes drop things so I am able to bend down and pick them up. Its like getting a break.
Does that sound like a nice place to work to you?
I really feel sad to think about the situation, but on the other hand hopefully they don’t make the items that we use to take our minds off of daily life like a Guitar Hero World Tour Wii. Foxconn does make many different electronics for different corporations so it’s probable if you’re looking for buy new digital camera it could be made there as well.
Next time you are at the drive thru at McD, and they forgot your napkins again, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! Calm down, and put things into proportion. If a missing straw is the very worst thing thats going down in your life at this time, its truly not that bad is it?
Hope you enjoy your iPhone.
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