Ninth Foxconn Worker of 2010 Commits Suicide

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[citation][nom]etrom[/nom]Way to go, China! Keep your annual GDP growth close to 10% while lack education, health and proper work conditions for citzens.[/citation]
You'll be happy to know China's spending on education and health care grows faster than 10%.

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]Instead of hiring exorcists and other foolish "professions" how about improving the living conditions of the employees? It's not like they can't afford to make improvements. Of course this isn't going to happen if anyone recalls the first suicide that was reported on it was after they detained tortured one of their employees who later took his life after.I'm not going to buy anymore Foxconn products or anything they are linked to like the iPhone.[/citation]
The exorcists and monks are not there to “capturing” the spirits as in “Ghost Hunters” or “The Exorcists”. They are there to “lead” the spirits to the great beyond and calm the nerves of other employee.

If you are going to stop buying Foxconn products, you better start by not buying anything that use electricity that isn’t a fridge or lamp.


BTW, anyone ever done a research on suicide rates (both on and off job) for major corporations? I assume Wal-Mart and EA would take the lead.
 
[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]If you are going to stop buying Foxconn products, you better start by not buying anything that use electricity that isn’t a fridge or lamp.[/citation]

I am pretty sure my fridge uses a Foxconn-made motherboard. lol no, seriously.
 
[citation][nom]soo-nah-mee[/nom]How many posts will it be before someone uses the term "Liberal" or "Conservative" and makes it political this time?[/citation]
Looks like you're the first.
 
[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]The mismanagement of the liberal media has put a spotlight on a company that should be commended for suicide prevention.[/citation]

You should get your talking points straight; there isn't mismanagement if the "terrible working conditions" message is precisely the one they want to send.

bonus points: am I a liberal troll or a conservative troll?
 
There are two problems with trying to compare suicide rates: 1) you will not hear about how many employees end up killing themselves in a low profile way that does not result in the company simply dismissing them without any media fanfare. Considering there are 300,000 employees, there are assuredly many suicides that simply go unnoticed and the workers are written off as having left for another company. The second problem is that the actual suicide rate in china is impossible to come by since the government controls and hides the official records; what you see referenced (like 23 in 100,000) is probably a guesstimate by a NGO in China. The actual rate could be higher or lower, no one outside China really knows for sure.
 
[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]You'll be happy to know China's spending on education and health care grows faster than 10%.[/citation]

Don't get too excited about this; They have a long way to go to catch up to developed nations that have been maintaining education and health care as a high priority for about 300 years.
 
[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]You'll be happy to know China's spending on education and health care grows faster than 10%.[/citation]

What about the average salary? Is it growing faster than 10% as well? Because you know, without money, you don't buy food, and without food, you get sick and you can no longer study or work.

Here in occident, we got news from China's economy almost everyday, but is hard to hear about improvements from social indicators.

As mentioned before, China is living its Industrial Revolution in the last decades, however, this is limited to the capital-opened cities (like Shangai and Beijing), where the rest of the country is still rural.

China, like any other emerging country in the world (my country included here), should invest more in social improvements rather than just worry about GDP and exportations.
 
Wow, its only 3 chinese workers per the cost of 1 US worker. A decade ago it was 8 to 1. I guess this explains why Japan, Germany, and the UK are building autoplants in the US.
 
Ok raise your hands...how many of you can't go through the day without blaming something on liberals??? Please for the sake of PETE get over yourselves! Be a conservative I don't care but get over yourselves! You want to go head to head...give me a list of things conservatives stand behind and I'll give you a list of conservatives who have crossed the line and are now hypocrites. I can't even read the blogs on here anymore without getting pi$$ed off and oh the liberals caused this and the liberals caused that.
 
[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]Wow, its only 3 chinese workers per the cost of 1 US worker. A decade ago it was 8 to 1. I guess this explains why Japan, Germany, and the UK are building autoplants in the US.[/citation]

I said "professional worker" meaning, a skilled worker filling a role above laborer. There is a huge wage gap in China, so engineers and those of the educated class do so so soooo much better than those who are just laborers, even by our standards.
 
[citation][nom]damitstohellz[/nom]Ok raise your hands...how many of you can't go through the day without blaming something on liberals??? Please for the sake of PETE get over yourselves! Be a conservative I don't care but get over yourselves! You want to go head to head...give me a list of things conservatives stand behind and I'll give you a list of conservatives who have crossed the line and are now hypocrites. I can't even read the blogs on here anymore without getting pi$$ed off and oh the liberals caused this and the liberals caused that.[/citation]

Liberals made Communist China.
 
[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]Liberals made Communist China.[/citation]Totalitarians made Communist China and Nazi Germany.

People need to understand that there are ways to be liberal/conservative without being totalitarian. Sadly, Faux News doesn't care for much except labeling "liberalism" as evil while claiming they are libertarians, an oxy-moron at its best.
 
[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]No shiiii...t. 300,000 employees for one company in one country would be unheard of anywhere else in the world (except maybe India.) To anyone who thinks these jobs were "lost" in the US: they never existed here at any time in the country's history. They exist because laborers earn a tiny fraction of even the average Chinese wage, which is itself very low. You can hire 3 professionals in China for the cost of one in the US; at this exchange rate it's still profitable to have some work done in the US. When you can hire 20 or 30 factory workers for what one worker in the US would demand for the privilege of showing up every day and doing their job competently without stealing, slacking off, or otherwise running costs up, it's not even worth thinking about employing them in the US.If you want to get an idea of what sort of stuff goes on in China and other places, you need to watch "Manufactured Landscapes", a documentary by Edward Burtynsky. It's *extremely* eye opening if you are interested at all in what the global consumer goods market looks like from the supply side.[/citation]

Actually there are companies in the US that have that many employees. Verizon Employs well over 200k employees and vendors.
 
Maybe they are just waking up to the reality they have become slaves to American Corporations using them for cheap labor. How moralistic our nation has "progressed" to bastardize it's own work force and enslave foreign nations for pennies on the hour to serve our gluttonous way of living.

This whole world is a shame and I blame the Corporations for everything that happens to their employees.
 
[citation][nom]etrom[/nom]Way to go, China! Keep your annual GDP growth close to 10% while lack education, health and proper work conditions for citzens.[/citation]

Well as much as I am disgusted by factory conditions in China and foreign countries, without them you wouldn't have your iPod (or Zune), Computer, Laptop, Cell Phone or just about any electronic you can name.

I take that back. You could have all of these devices but that would mean your iPod would cost $1000 and your computer $8000 and your phone $500.

They keep the prices low unfortunately.
 
[citation][nom]danimal_the_animal[/nom]Heylets install a company diving board on top of the building.[/citation]

Haha. That's terrible but funny as hell.
 
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