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Apple Admits to Occasional Excessive Work Hours
rev_media writes "After Apple's release of a report on the labor conditions in their Chinese factories, many took issue with the deliberately vague wording used in the statement. The BBC is now reporting that Apple has admitted to 'excessive' working hours in some locations, and they would be ensuring that a 'normal' 60-hour work week will be adhered to from now on." From that article: "'We found no instances of forced overtime and employees confirmed in interviews that they could decline overtime requests without penalty,' said Apple in a statement. The firm said there were 'overtime limit exceptions in unusual circumstances' and that it supported a healthy work-life balance. But it did not specify what the triggers for 'unusual circumstances' were and what upper limit it set on working hours. Mr Kuczkiewicz said Apple had not asked workers what they preferred - a decent wage or minimum wage and overtime."
Funny, that's exactly what I say to the Americans I meet that have moved to the UK.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
well you never can be suprised to be modded troll making a joke about apple
now if i had replaced "apple" with "windows"
in a m$ story it have been +5 funny
sometimes you people make me fucking ill..... anyways... how apple enjoys such a postive reputation as being this "great" company when they are every bit as greedy and evil as m$...maybe more so... is a mystery.
anyone that defends any corporation making people work 60hrs a week to barely survive is a total twat IMHO.... Apple customers should tell apple they are not willing to accept these types of practices. 40hrs a week is more than enough time that anyone should have to spend at work.
but seriously whoever modded my orig post troll is fucking ghey just so you know.
actually I am happy to see you, however that is in fact a banana in my pocket.
Imagine yourself working 12 hours a day in a factory and sleeping in a dormitory in the same fucking factory! No intimacy, no sex life, no love, no children, no family life,...now dare tell me this is not a soulless slave life!!! And at the same time you enjoy your ipod. Joy for you, nightmarish meaningless minimum-wage "life" for them.
Capitalism is a giant gulag for most of humanity! Whether YOU at the center of the privileged capitalist empire like your fucking job or not!
The article said that they work more than 60 hours a week during 17 weeks every year! I saw a documentary about a Chinese factory where workers were working 15 hours a day. One morning, in a dormitory, the workers woke up a guy who was still sleeping and about to be late. Surprise: he was dead! Exhaustion! His heart could not take it anymore!!! And all that for a salary of misery! All that for Walmart and Apple and YOU cheap bastard inhuman consumer! While Apple's fat lazy shareholders (=virtual slavemasters) in America make money doing nothing with their fat asses! Motherfucking Steve Jobs should be sentenced to work 15 hours a day in that ipod factory until he motherfucking dies! And YOU must boycott Apple if you pretend to be human!
Real life on this capitalist Earth is that of those Chinese slaves! Finding excuses for Apple comfortably seated in front of your PC is not a life!
True, it makes sense that a tyrannical government would enact tyrannical laws. I applaud their consistency.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...