Foxconn Chairman Calls in Exorcist to Stop Suicides

Tom's Hardware ^ | May 17, 2010 | Jane McEntegart

[decimon]

As Foxconn's suicide cluster continues, the company is desperate to have the death toll remain where it is.

Foxconn has been experiencing a wave of suicides, with a total of eight employees taking their lives since the beginning of the year. A ninth incident, which took place yesterday, and saw a man with several knife wounds fall from a seventh-floor window of one of Foxconn’s dormitories, has not been confirmed as a suicide.

[nuconvert]

Foxconn?

[umgud]

Sad. Such a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

[sodpoodle]

Ancient honor (suicide) tradition being revisited??

[dynachrome]

“so many people working for Foxconn (roughly 400,000 work at the Longhua plant alone),”

The Hive. Drones are expendable.

[STARWISE]

It’s in China, (which for some reason
was left out of the title or description).

[HerrBlucher]

Which makes it even more interesting that the services of an Exorcist have been requested.

[Smokin' Joe]

SOunds like a serial killer...

[PugetSoundSoldier]

One of the “big 3” in consumer electronics/computer assembly in Shenzhen: Foxconn, Compal, and Quanta. They build for just about everybody: Dell, HP, Apple, Sony, you name it.

[Born Conservative]

http://bit.ly/cqBmdx (link to NewEgg)

[BossLady]

'dormitories'

This may be part of the problem.....

[American Constitutionalist]

" It’s in China, (which for some reason was left out of the title or description). "

That's the answer to the problem, or should I say, that's the answer to the question ..... CHINA.... why is it ? when I think of this, I can see hundreds of workers locked in a building with room only for 50 or so people made to work ungodly 15-18 hours a day 7 days a week.

[American Constitutionalist]

Yes, I have heard that before, if you get a motherboard from ASUS, BIOSTAR, your most likely getting a motherboard built by Foxconn.

[nuconvert]

ahh....
Thanks

[American Constitutionalist]

'dormitories'

Basically, it's almost a forced labor sweat shops....

[nuconvert]

thanks

[decimon]

SOunds like a serial killer...

"...a man with several knife wounds fall from a seventh-floor window of one of Foxconn’s dormitories, has not been confirmed as a suicide."

I never stab myself more than twice before jumping out a window.

[BossLady]

Yep.....that's my thought....

Reminds me of the rash of Korean pop stars committing suicide a couple years ago....

[American Constitutionalist]

And they get paid something like $ 5 a week, or day...

[iowamark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
“”a Taiwanese (ROC)-registered corporation headquartered in Tucheng, Taiwan. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide, and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; motherboards for UK computer manufacturer Zoostorm; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft, cell phones for Motorola, the Amazon Kindle, and Cisco equipment.””