Do you own an iPhone or ever acquired something from Sony, HP or Dell? If so you‘ve probably bought something made at Foxconn in Shenzhen China.
The factory in the town of Shenzhen China employs 425,000 folks by some reports and 275,000 by others. Whatever the amount of workers is, the average reported pay is only about $130 per month… How would you feel working 10hr shifts on a fast-paced, incessant production line for 60 five CENTS PER HOUR? Do you believe anybody in the western world that BUYS the devices being made in China would essentially WORK at one of these facilities?
Here’s the worst part about working at Foxconn ; you come from a tiny farming community and have not left it before. You have never been away from your folks farm, and now your family is far away and you can’t see or speak with them. You dont know anybody where you‘re employed and probably dont even begin to know the men and women that you live withinside the walled-in Foxconn compound. How long before you finish up going mad?
The working conditions in the big factory in Shenzhen are most probably not superb. Foxconn makes billions of dollars in profits and one worker when talking about the conditions of work had this to claim :
I really like to infrequently drop things so Ican bend down and pick them up. Its like getting a break.
Does that sound like a nice place to work to you?
Hopefully they don’t make the products that we use to take our minds off of daily life like a Guitar Hero Wii bundle. Foxconn does make many different products for different companies so it’s possible if you’re looking for buy new digital camera it might be made there as well.
Next time youre at the drive thru at McD, and they forgot your straw again, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! Relax, relax, and put things into perspective. If a missing straw is the most terrible thing thats going down in your life right now, its really not that bad is it?
Hope you enjoy your iPhone.
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