Foxconn Installing Safety Nets to Catch Jumpers?

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]xxyyzz[/nom]How stupid do you have to be to see the net and still make the jump?[/citation]
They'd make me MORE likely to jump. It would be kinda fun jumping a few stories into a net. Not that I really want to trust that those nets would hold.

 

[christop]

Must be the worst place in the world to work..

 

[icepick314]

I think you can still do it on the second floor...

just remember to dive head first....

 

[bustapr]

Sure you can kill yourselves.... but just dont do it here.

 

[zmbcat]

They can still go through the gaps between nets if they aim very well...a few practise jumps could do the job.

 

[borisof007]

[citation][nom]xxyyzz[/nom]How stupid do you have to be to see the net and still make the jump?[/citation]

More like how AWESOME! That'd be so much fun! Not the suicide thing, but the jumping down a few stories into a net. That does sound fun!

 

[jsm6746]

the nets are really there to protect those below from jumpers...

they also sell really bouncy umbrellas...

'It's Raining People! Hallelujah! It's Raining People!'

 

[powerofpi]

Today, just when I felt like my whole life was a failure, I jumped of a roof and failed to commit suicide. FML.

 

[zoemayne]

lol these comments are sick well an easy way around the net is to set yourseld on fire and maybe the net too find a gap.

 

[falchard]

They should add these to every building. Forget the stairs, just jump out the window.

 

[lauxenburg]

Because we all know the ONLY way to yourself is by jumping off a building.

 

[dEAne]

emotional problems cannot be solve by nets.

 

[ctmk]

Solution is simple, don't buy foxconn made stuff and if there is no market there is no torture. Having to think my ipad costing human life to make it..... or it is made by prople treated as "almost" slaves. i think i'll just pass ipad and whatever made by foxxcon like xbox. (anyone knows any site that list out stuff made by foxxcon?)

 

[drwho1]

at least with those nets people can walk freely on the street without worrying about bird poop on them.

 

[rebturtle]

Seriously, is it that hard to put a lock on the door to the roof?

 

[arlandi]

duh, there are other methods to kill yourself...

foxconn should fix the insane working environment instead of just installing nets etc.

they should fix the root cause of the whole thing.

 

[Guest]

Guess they were having problems with dropped employees, so they "put a cover on it".

 

[randomizer]

They can always jump off buildings away from Foxconn's manufacturing facilities...

[citation][nom]ctmk[/nom]Solution is simple, don't buy foxconn made stuff[/citation]
You would not be buying much then.

 

[back_by_demand]

A no suicide contract, lol
I wonder how they would enforce it?

"Ok Mr Chang you killed yourself, so no overtime!"

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]arlandi[/nom]duh, there are other methods to kill yourself... foxconn should fix the insane working environment instead of just installing nets etc.they should fix the root cause of the whole thing.[/citation]
Why are so many people banging on about terrible working conditions forcing huge numbers of people to kill themselves when it is patently NOT TRUE.

400,000 people work there, the number of suicides compared to the workforce is 1/3 of the national average. So admittedly the work is hard, but a lot better than elsewhere in China, the wages are low, but better than elsewhere in China.

So since "Mr Chang" gave up working 18 hours a day in a paddy field being paid a bowl of rice a day and work at Foxconn he is 3 times LESS likely to kill himself.

 

[Guest]

What a sigh of relief! Now I can buy those iphone'y gadgets with confidence that the people making them won't be finding it that easy to commit suicide.

Arun

 

[figgus]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Why are so many people banging on about terrible working conditions forcing huge numbers of people to kill themselves when it is patently NOT TRUE.400,000 people work there, the number of suicides compared to the workforce is 1/3 of the national average. So admittedly the work is hard, but a lot better than elsewhere in China, the wages are low, but better than elsewhere in China.So since "Mr Chang" gave up working 18 hours a day in a paddy field being paid a bowl of rice a day and work at Foxconn he is 3 times LESS likely to kill himself.[/citation]
Stop making sense, you're going to confuse the "corporations are evil" crowd.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]Stop making sense, you're going to confuse the "corporations are evil" crowd.[/citation]
I think they are already confused, anyone who thinks that May Day is a good time to throw a shopping cart through a bank windows to protest at globalization is obviously fucking retarded.

 

[marcusmiller360]

[citation][nom]xxyyzz[/nom]How stupid do you have to be to see the net and still make the jump?[/citation]

Are you kidding me? What fool wouldn't jump now? WooooooH! Sproing.

 

[maxiim]

Too much news about this, maybe next article on the ones who make it to the ground.