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Hundreds Threaten Suicide
At Microsoft Supplier Plant
In China
CBS Seattle ^
| 1/10/12
| Staff
Posted on 01/10/2012 2:04:21 PM PST by Nachum
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Maccabee Suicide squads?
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:04:26 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
I can see being despondent if I had to work for MS.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
I work for MSFT, love it!
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:11:18 PM PST
by
Chandalier
(Perfect is the enemy of good.)
To: Nachum
After I installed Windows Vista I wanted to commit suicide.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:11:32 PM PST
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
To: JRandomFreeper
They are only threatening to do it.
A few at the Apple manufacturing plants have actually done it, though they did it with style.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:13:24 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Nachum
One hundred Chinese workers? Isn’t there anyone to take their place? I thought Chinese had a few extra people somewhere to fill in this gap. What they need is Jimmy Hoffa /sarc. After they unionize, it will be cheaper to manufacture here again.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:13:24 PM PST
by
momincombatboots
(Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
To: Chandalier
Me too (even though I’m just a vendor).
To: momincombatboots
Yea, I suggest we send over as many Chicago union members as necessary to get China organized.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:18:23 PM PST
by
catbertz
(Easter egg...I wants it.)
To: Nachum
Maybe our unions can emulate them.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:18:40 PM PST
by
crosshairs
(Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
To: Nachum
CBS.
Foxconn isn’t a MSFT outfit. It’s a contract manufacturer.
These guys may work on the Xbox line, but Foxconn pays the employees, not MSFT.
Hey, we got sell ads here, so let’s whack MSFT here and imply that MSFT is driving its Chinese employees to suicide and is treating them unfairly.
The Press wonders why we are leaving in droves.
Assholes.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:19:12 PM PST
by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: Chandalier
with your tagline, I’d expect you to be delighted with MS...
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:23:58 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1084 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Nachum
Wired magazine was granted access to the factories, which installed nets that would catch anyone attempting to jump. That is when you know your job is depressing. Nets around the building.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:33:13 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: ColdOne
I don’t know - nets around the building sounds like the management cares. Now a moat filled with croks.....
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:40:01 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: ColdOne
The wingnuts I worked for at a University IT department had me hoping that I would be hit by a car or have a heart attack nearly every day. The wackos in the electronics recycling corporation drove me to the hospital twice due to stress.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:41:49 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: Nachum
Workers strike and make demands at enterprises where foreigners are responsible for the additional costs (but still 49 - 51 minority owners, I believe) usually do pretty well.. but when it's a state owned enterprise?
8,000 protest conditions at foreign-owned enterprise
Right To Strike Key To China's Concern For Workers' Welfare
. . .
8,000 protest conditions at state-owned enterprise (SOE)
People's Armed Police Puts Count At 8,000 Dead
. . . .
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:45:10 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Nachum
With over a billion people I would think the Chinese government would pay them to commit suicide since they are in to killing people.
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posted on
01/10/2012 2:56:24 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
To: ColdOne
>>> Nets around the building. <<<<
Silicon Valley is missing a bet it seems. Little wonder Obama was advocating that the US needs to embrace Chinese infrastructure ideas.
To: Nachum
350 million unemployed Chinese say "去了!!!!"
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posted on
01/10/2012 3:04:54 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: Nachum
"Suicide Squad...ATTACK!"
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posted on
01/10/2012 3:05:24 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Nachum
When I was working (retired 10 years ago) we would occasionally have employees threaten to quit if this or that didn’t happen.
I would simply focus on those employees and within 3 to 6 months they were generally fired for cause.
I envy the Chinese in this regard. Had those idiots jumped, they would have saved me a ton of paperwork and time that I could have spent on something else. ;>)
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posted on
01/10/2012 3:09:07 PM PST
by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~..... GO NEWT GO.....!)
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