Foxconn Makes Employees Promise Not to Kill Themselves

[Namreg]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18526

and if you break your Promise mister, you'll be fired!

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I'd get fired pretty quick.

 

[PirateKing]

I'm sure they'll find a loophole.

 

[dogbone27]

Huh??

 

[LukeEl]

But they didn't set any restrictions on killing each other.

 

[JayJohn85]

They need to add a proper incentive like.....If you kill yourself we will hire some goons to whack your entire family.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

I laughed so hard at this shit when I read it. I wonder if that makes me evil?

 

[slasher]

It makes you wonder what is going on at Foxconn that they make employees Promise that. I read a while back that they had several workers that had killed themselves. It seems like an empty Promise to me. If someone wants to kill themselves bad enough that won't stop them.

 

[roronoa3000]

I'll do it for them.

...for a small fee.

 

[24788]

Man look at the related articles. They need to be shut down. Fuck apple, dell, and hp. They get rich while the damn poor die.

http://www.dailytech.com/Another+Fo...eo+of+Employee+Beating+Leaks/article18471.htm

 

[slasher]

Man look at the related articles. They need to be shut down. Fuck apple, dell, and hp. They get rich while the damn poor die.

http://www.dailytech.com/Another+Fo...eo+of+Employee+Beating+Leaks/article18471.htm

That explains a lot.

 

[shayd]

It makes you wonder what is going on at Foxconn that they make employees Promise that. I read a while back that they had several workers that had killed themselves. It seems like an empty Promise to me. If someone wants to kill themselves bad enough that won't stop them.

All you need to know is it's a company that has approximately 400,000 workers and it sits smack dab in the middle of China. The rest really just flows from that.

 

[grower_boy]

No worries.

 

[bustybbwlover]

i'm guessing the problem is in the fact that these folk live in soul crushing china and

the company pays most of its assembly-line workers in shenzhen the city's minimum wage of $130 a month

making items that cost at least $600 a pop
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100526/wl_time/08599199162000

 

[tartanterrier]

They should get done for human cruelty

 

[D-rock]

I bet that is some Republican and Libertarian paradise. How long before they manage to get something like that over here?...of course for people other than them individually.

 

[slasher]

I bet that is some Republican and Libertarian paradise. How long before they manage to get something like that over here?...of course for people other than them individually.

I know plenty of both Republicans and Libertarians and none of them support those kinds of work conditions. I don't think any sane person would think that is a good idea or want it in their country. I saw an article yesterday in which several large companies, Apple and Microsoft among them, that said they were opposed to those kinds of work conditions and hoped Foxconn addressed them. I can't find the link again or I would post it.

Foxconn has given their employees a 20% pay increase but says it has nothing to do with the suicides. Yeah right.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ho...ase-Foxconn-suicides-foxconn-china,10539.html

Here is another interesting link.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100041277/why-foxconn-cannot-stop-its-suicides/