Tragic Suicides at iPhone Factory, Foxconn in China

Do you own an iPhone or have you ever bought something from Sony, HP or Dell? If so you have probably bought something made at Foxconn in Shenzhen China.

The factory in the city of Shenzhen China employs 425,000 people by some reports and 275,000 by others. Whatever the number of employees is, the average reported pay is only about $130 per month... How would you feel working 10hr shifts on a fast-paced, repetitive assembly line for SIXTY FIVE CENTS PER HOUR? Do you think anyone in the developed world that BUYS the devices being made in China would actually WORK at one of these facilities?

Here's the worst part about working at Foxconn; you come from a small farming community and have never left it before. You've never been away from your family farm, and now your family is far away and you can’t see or talk to them. You don’t know anyone where you work and probably don’t even get to know the people that you live with inside the walled-in Foxconn compound. How long before you end up going mad?

http://www.google.com/search?q=foxconn+suicides

The working conditions in the enormous factory in Shenzhen are most likely not very good. Foxconn makes BILLIONS of dollars in profits and one worker when talking about the working conditions had this to say:

“I like to sometimes drop things so I can bend down and pick them up. It’s like getting a break.”

Does that sound like a nice place to work to you?

Next time you’re at the drive thu at McD, and they forgot your straw again, IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! Calm down, relax, and put things into perspective. If a missing straw is the worst thing that’s happening in your life right now, it’s really not that bad is it?

Enjoy your iPhone.