Eerie, deserted dorms where Apple iPhone workers lived eight to a room, showered in groups of 20

dailymail. ^ | 11 May 2016 | George Knowles

[clee1]

I was in those same barracks, I believe....

[kanawa]

One time they were lazy and I didn’t give them the one on the way home.

So, did they learn their lesson?

[21twelve]

Yes they did! And they had been good workers up until that afternoon as well. Not sure what happened that day. They liked working with us. We were off the mine site proper so they got double pay. And we would be gone for over ten hours most days, so that meant another 50 cents an hour for all their hours. So instead of making $4 a day they were making around $18 for a 12-hour day. Plus $4 worth of candy bars a day.

[Rad_J]

I have been in China recently. When Apple is releasing a new iphone version, thousands of workers from the area leave their jobs for a month or so to build iPhones and then go back to their jobs. The other factories slow down quite a bit and then things go back to normal when the workers return.