So? The facts are that Apple did not erect those suicide nets, which were erected at a factory assembling Microsoft Xboxes, HP Computers, Sony Playstations, and Nokia cellular phones. The suicide rate that spurred the erection of those nets in 2010 was 0.75 persons per 100,000 per year out of an population of between 450,000 to over 750,000 during the 18 months in which 18 people committed suicides at FoxConn factories. EIGHTEEN. That's all, out of several hundred thousand workers aged 18 to 32.
The suicide rate of young people in the same age cohort in the Chinese Population in general is 22 persons per 100,000. It appears it is safer to be employed at FoxConn that to be employed or unemployed anywhere else in China. Are you that stupid you would rather PENALIZE FoxConn for keeping their employees safe?
Apple did not put up those nets, central_va. Terry Gou, CEO of FoxConn paid for those nets out of his pocket to assure the safety of the workers at his company's factories. Apple had NOTHING to do with it. Are you so stupid you cannot see the difference between a company that does business with 500 consumer electronic companies and a single company, whose products were being assembled 150 miles away from any of the suicides? Apparently, you are, because you keep repeating this lie, over and over and over, just as you have done again with the presentation of this photo.
The suicide rate among students at American Ivy League Universities also aged 18 to 32 years of age is over 11 persons per 100,000 per year. That's a suicide rate at American universities that is 14.7 TIMES the suicide rate at FoxConn's factories. Why are you not complaining about the horrendous rate of suicides at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, or Yale? Apparently FACTS don't faze you at all in your irrational hatred of Apple.
When have you posted this on the Microsoft Windows thread, central_va, considering the primary products the six workers who DID commit suicide were assembling were Microsoft Xboxes and HP Windows computers???? I would bet the answer is not a single time, right, dayglored?
Funny thing, Microsoft has some of their X-Boxes built by company other than FoxConn. That company is KYE Systems, which IS one of those companies, mentioned above, whose management which is far worse in working conditions!
Where was Microsoft? Where is Microsoft's Code of Conduct for Suppliers?
Where are YOU on these conditions?
Labor Group: Chinese Teens "like prisoners" in Microsoft Tech Factory
By Nick Eaton
Excerpted from Seattle Post Intellegencer - April 13, 2010Thousands of Chinese teens and young adults work 15 hours a day at 65 cents per hour, prohibited from talking or listening to music, in abysmal conditions at the KYE Systems factory where they assemble Microsoft hardware that is exported to the United States, Europe and Japan.
So reports the National Labor Committee, which on Tuesday released the culmination of three years of incognito interviews and photography inside the infamous Dongguan, China, gadget factories. Though Microsoft is not the only company to outsource manufacturing to KYE, it accounts for about 30 percent of the factory’s work, the NLC said.
"We are like prisoners," one worker told the NLC. "It seems like we live only to work. We do not work to live. We do not live a life, only work."
Microsoft said it is taking the claims seriously and has "commenced an investigation."
The workers -- mostly women aged 18 to 25 -- work from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m. They eat horrid meals from the factory cafeterias. They have no bathroom breaks during their shifts, and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
They sleep in factory dormitories, 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28-inch-wide plywood boards. They "shower" with a sponge and a bucket. And many of the workers, because they're young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC alleges.
Where is YOUR outrage at Microsoft? What did Microsoft's CEO do about the sexual harassment of teenage girls at Microsoft's factory? Aren't YOU offended by Microsoft cramming twice as many people into dorm rooms as FoxConn does? How can Microsoft's CEO countenance paying Microsoft's workers only HALF of the starting pay that FoxConn pays for the same work, less than one-sixth the pay FoxConn pays workers on their Apple lines, require them to work longer hours without overtime pay. . . but does ANYBODY hear about this??? Why aren't YOU demanding Microsoft's CEO self-immolate over Microsoft's factory's abysmal practices? Where are the headlines? Where are the suicides???
Oh, did I mention that KYE dormitory pictures have been used as photo "stand-ins" for many "FoxConn dormitory" pictures in Internet Blogs? You can still find some labeled as such.
How about you posting your pictures of the nets a thread mentioning Sony Playstations? I hear crickets from you.
Maybe on a thread on Nokia phones? More silence from your noisy peanut gallery, central_va.
No, central-va, you REALLY WANT to blame Apple for something they were completely disconnected from, except for incompetent and greedy journalists putting Apple's name in the headline to garner clicks and advertising revenue.
You've used the term "kids killing themselves" with abandon in your indictment of Apple and FoxConn. Let's slay that particular shiboleth.
You keep yawping about all the "teenage kids killing themselves in Apple's factories," implying that we should assume that all the "victims" are youngsters, minors. I think we can all agree that "teenage" is well defined as 13 to 19 years of age, can we not? Adulthood in most modern cultures is considered to be reached at age 18, with anything younger being defined as still a child, a "kid."
Two attributed to the count at FoxConn in 2013, should not have been included at all. One of them killed herself after spending several weeks in a government mental facility, and the other was an ex-employee who did the deed several months after voluntarily quitting and returning to his home village, but the China Labor Watch organization added them to FoxConn's list of suicides merely to increase the statistics.
Unfortunately for your distortions of reality, facts are again rearing their disturbing heads.
You see, of the 23 attempted and successful suicide attempts among FoxConn's 450,000 to 750,000 employees at 27 factories from 2009 through 2011, only SIX involved persons who could be defined as "teenage," and only ONE, a month shy of her 17th birthday--who had used an older cousin's ID to get her job at FoxConn--could be defined as a child, a kid--who survived, although paralyzed from the waist down.
Specifically, the 19 suicides and attempts ranged in age from 17 (the survivor) to 28, average age was a little less than 23 years old. The most common age for a worker to attempt suicide at FoxConn was 23 with four. Three each were in the 18, 19, 21, 24, and 25 years old categories. There were two 20 year olds, the one 28 year old and the one 17 year old who failed to kill herself. Oops, no "teenaged kids killing themselves." You are distorting, spouting hyperbole, spreading PROPAGANDA! FUD! Of course, You will probably say I "faked" this all up. However, all of this is documented and easily checkable in the reports from the independent psychiatrists and labor specialists brought in to investigate the suicides from outside China.
If you repost your lies again, I will know you are truly a liar in your heart. . . and you do it deliberately and maliciously.
GloBULLism has had it’s day. Go Trump, go!