Did you hear about Foxconn!?

medseven · 10 Aug 2011 at 00:16

I was looking for a new motherboard and was doing my searching and came across Foxconn, a maker of motherboards themselves but at the same time I heard you cant get many motherboards without one or two Foxconn components on them. During my searching I cam across this lot...

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/07/2...its-suicide-after-losing-an-iphone-prototype/

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article7138927.ece

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10169595

http://www.trendchatter.com/2011/08...foxconn-deaths-highlight-china-suicide-rates/

Dating all the way from 2009 to now.. Even its WIKI page seems to focus on this and seems a little, well, sheat, compared to most...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

They even given a wiki page to just how many suicides they have...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

Zefan · 10 Aug 2011 at 00:18

I reckon most people here will know about them. They're one of, if not the biggest manufacturers of hardware.

stulid · 10 Aug 2011 at 00:24

I came in here thinking it would be riot related

and they were on fire.

nate922 · 10 Aug 2011 at 00:25

This is commonly known. Latest news is that they're replacing huge number of people with robots

medseven · 10 Aug 2011 at 00:37

Alrite Mr Stulid, im predicting no riot or something, I never listened to the radio.

never mind if conan's wife is liking how bright it is tonight or anything,

Was just some crazy new news for me, not that new news ever gets old. Or that the news has anything to do with the radio.

Trofeo · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:45

Bleak

first I've heard about this

bhavv · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:49

They are now going to start replacing workers with robots.

Jay85 · 11 Aug 2011 at 00:04

Wow I'm Chinese but this is sickening. It's no wonder why so many flee to other countries to get their degrees because of this sort of "mis-treatment" and cheap labour. Also people always say it's made in china so it's gonna break.. Well ofc you idiot cos you pay them bugger all! I doubt anyone in the right mind would work hard for a dead end job right.

pingwing · 11 Aug 2011 at 00:14

Ill never forgive them for my original 939 board that couldn't go one mhz faster than stock speed

JonJ678 · 11 Aug 2011 at 00:16

Perhaps the factory is a convenient place to commit suicide, rather than the motivation for it.

Replacing workers with robots sounds a fantastic idea to me.

Trofeo · 11 Aug 2011 at 12:51

Jay85 said:
I doubt anyone in the right mind would work hard for a dead end job right.

Very true but...

JonJ678 said:
Replacing workers with robots sounds a fantastic idea to me.

...It's better than no job surly :/ still sux though

Mr-White · 11 Aug 2011 at 13:04

I heard about this a few months ago when loads of employees were committing suicide in a factory that was making iphones. I always wondered why iphones weren't fair trade

MW