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The image Microsoft doesn't want you to see: Chinese workers too tired to stay awake !!
Daily Mail ^
| 04/20/2010
| Liz Hull and Lee Sorrell
Posted on 04/20/2010 8:45:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:47:53 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: SeekAndFind
Its the msg get ya every time
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:48:03 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: SeekAndFind
MSFT is a big Obama supporter and so is Apple.
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:50:04 AM PDT
by
Frantzie
(McCain=Obama's friend. McCain called AMERICANS against amnesty - "racists")
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:50:48 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: SeekAndFind
They ‘shower’ with a sponge and a bucket.....
This is ridiculous and stinky....
To: SeekAndFind
Since so many of the workers are napping, how do we know that it isn’t something they just do at break time. I mean look at any break room in the USA and someone is always asleep during breaks.
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:52:56 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Habakkuk 2:3)
To: Frantzie
MSFT is a big Obama supporter and so is Apple.
Pathetic!
To: SeekAndFind
I don't believe in secondary, tertiary, etc. guilt.
Is MS demanding that this factory treat its workers this way? If not, then aren't I just as guilty as MS? After all, I benefit (to SOME degree) from this. So do millions of other end-users. Are they all guilty?
I believe in the guilt of the perpetrator, not including everyone downstream from the perpetrator.
If you buy this crap, then you must also accept the whole "white guilt" argument, since white Americans have arguably benefitted to SOME degree from black slavery.
Say NO to the false doctrine of inherited guilt!
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:53:27 AM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: Frantzie
MSFT is a big Obama supporter and so is Apple.And MS is "THE" MS in MSNBC.
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:54:16 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: SeekAndFind
But unions and liberals saved us from sweat shops.
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posted on
04/20/2010 8:57:12 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
To: TChris
Does Microsoft have an obligation to TELL their Chinese business partner to treat their workers decently ? Or is this under the auspices of Chinese law ?
To: SeekAndFind
Those girls are tired because of all the lonely Chinese guys chasing them with the women shortage and all.
To: svcw
Since so many of the workers are napping, how do we know that it isnt something they just do at break time
The picture is merely SUPPORTIVE evidence of their being treated indecently. If you want to question the veracity of this sweat shop, it is the veracity of the NEWS ITSELF that must be questioned, not just the picture.
To: SeekAndFind
"Dock that c--nk a day's pay for napping on the job."
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:00:49 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:04:49 AM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: edcoil
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:07:45 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: svcw
They are on break. Read the article.
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:09:02 AM PDT
by
CMAC51
To: SeekAndFind
Does Microsoft have an obligation to TELL their Chinese business partner to treat their workers decently ? Or is this under the auspices of Chinese law ? I dunno. Do you tell the owners of the stores where you buy stuff that they must treat their workers the way you say?
(Rant: Not necessarily directed at you)
Microsoft is a customer to the Chinese. If they don't like the way the workers are treated in China, they don't have to use that supplier. If an end user doesn't like it, they don't have to buy the products.
But it's naive and simplistic to presume that workers in a 2nd-World country should be instantly treated as though they were modern-day, union-represented Americans. If they were living the same lifestyle as Americans and working in the same conditions, then there would be no cost benefit to manufacturing there, and they would have no job at all!
So, is it evil to employ them in the conditions they're already used to, at what are considered decent wages there? ...or to not employ them at all?
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:10:38 AM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: SeekAndFind
Well, personally (since some think the picture is fake, or white guilt inducing BS, or funny chinese men chasing chica) I would have a problem with a company that outsourced to another company that was doing this. They may be Chinese, but they are human. Is the story true? I don't know, but I've been to Dubai and realized that while I stayed in some of the most beautifularchitecture there was an underworld of ridiculous suffering. Thus, I do not think China is far above Dubai. Anyways, fake or true MS should investigate. If true then they should either change companies, or force it to treat its workers better. They can do it. We're not talking about buying them Bentleys - just some basic human decency.
Then again, I'm sure those workers were just being lazy after running away from men all shift /s
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posted on
04/20/2010 9:11:08 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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