Foxconn Chairman Calls in Exorcist to Stop Suicides

[HavoCnMe]

I swear this sounds like a movie i have seen...Except they threw multiple people out the window over a course of time....sounds like people are finding out stuff and are being silenced...."Ray Finkle did it!"

 

[NuclearShadow]

I certainly called it with my geek dictionary submission back in July 2009
with the first employee taking their life.

http://geekdictionary.computing.net/define/foxconn

I must be psychic.

 

[seriousazn]

[citation][nom]twisted politiks[/nom]lol, romanticize suicide? im pretty sure there's nothing you could do to 'persuade' me into committing suicide. try looking elsewhere, like the work place, or their actual lives. so stupid how everything is blamed on social networking these days.[/citation]
look no further Modern Christianity to the rescue!!!

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]bstm300[/nom]There are only a few rational people posting comments on here. The rest are absolute idiots. This article was also poorly written too. There was no mention or hints by the writer of the possible reasons for why the workers were committing suicide. Hmmm, if you know anything about China's welfare system, you know that most U.S. companies' subsidiaries working in China fail to register workers at the local government, making gathering social security or welfare impossible for them. The Chinese government provides what is called a living wage to people making only a minimum wage, barely able to support themselves and any any dependents. This may not have been enough for these workers. One possibility is that single work-related deaths amount to nothing and the subsidiary of Foxcon wouldn't have complied with the 1995 Labor law, stipulating that the company must provide for the welfare of the family if the provider dies in a work-related death due to an unsafe working environment. This is because local labor department officials, in charge of inspecting the company sites to insure safety regulations are respected, are often paid off by the management of such companies. Or, they are told by their labor department superiors to turn a blind eye to it. Thus, the people may have sadly figured that the best chance their dependents had of getting restitution or welfare from the company was to kill themselves, garner media attention, and then Foxcon would have made sure they were taken care of.[/citation]
I do not like that idea at all. 🙁

 

[ikoliss]

I'd think its the pressure the company is putting on the workers, demotions... but no doubt this Taiwanese company give low payment to the workers...