Ninth Suicide At iPhone Factory

shar303 writes "A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. The 21-year-old worker was the eighth fatality this year. This raises questions as to whether the shiny finish of the latest gadgets available from mega corporations are tarnished by such information, and whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms."

Comments

Yeah, "suicides"

[elrous0]

Turns out there is an extremely high suicide rate amongst engineers who lost their iPhone prototypes.

One was in such despair that he shot himself 25 times, with several different caliber weapons.

Re:Yeah, "suicides"

[WrongSizeGlass]

One was in such despair that he shot himself 25 times, with several different caliber weapons.

You have to respect that employee's dedication and work ethic to be able to accomplish that. Hell, I'm such a wuss I'd probably have stopped shooting myself after the first bullet.

Re:Yeah, "suicides"

[pipingguy]

Are you a programmer and willing to shoot only an appendage?

C
You shoot yourself in the foot.

C++
You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."

JAVA
After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you've forgotten what the hell you're doing.

Ruby
Your foot is ready to be shot in roughly five minutes, but you just can't find anywhere to shoot it.

PHP
You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.

ASP.NET
Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead.

SQL
SELECT @ammo:=bullet FROM gun WHERE trigger = 'PULLED';
INSERT INTO leg (foot) VALUES (@ammo);

Perl
You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.

Javascript
You've perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

CSS
You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.

FORTRAN
You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no exception-handling ability.

COBOL
Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER. on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be retied.

LISP
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which
you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds ....

BASIC
Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.

Pascal
The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.

Unix
% ls
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm * .o
rm: .o: No such file or directory
% ls
%

Visual Basic
You'll shoot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it that you won't care.

Ada
After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.

Assembly
You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After that's done, you pull the trigger, the gun beeps several times, then crashes.

Python
You try to shoot yourself in the foot but you just keep hitting the whitespace between your toes.

Etc...

Re:Apple.

[Idbar]

So... is that where all the magic comes from?

Re:Poor Working Conditions in China?

[wsanders]

Da, I cannot believe no one is getting joke you make! We solve problem in Soviet Russia by having one story factories.

        -Joseph Stalin

Re:Apple.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the heck don't we just make more stuff in the US.

Yes, sign me up to pay 10,000 dollars for my xbox and 15,000 for my ipad! Oh wait, nevermind I like cheap stuff. Now I am off to wal-mart! AMERICA F YEAH!

Re:Apple.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh jeez, Canada? That's even worse. Those poor Canucks spend their days working in -40 CELSIUS, that's like I dunno -9000 Fahrenheit, for like 12 hours a day. Oh and their days are really dark since they are so far north. Their factories are just really big igloos and most Canadians have to forage for their own food. For instance, I had to go club a few seals the other day just to feed my family, and then PETA threw blood all over my igloo. Don't get me started on the epic trek it is just to GET to work, most men my age have to wear their fathers pajamas and make it to work through blizzard or polar bear.

Re:Apple.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you mean "iBlood"?

Re:This problem is not just Apple's, it's Taiwan's

[Bobfrankly1]

Debt-related suicide in Taiwan has been going up for some time and it's likely to just become worse.

Just to clarify, are you talking about debt in terms of owed money, or are you talking about the debt owed to the common good for bringing more apple products into the world?

Re:Apple.

[Red Flayer]

Blood will have gone into my next phone. I will purchase it humbly.

Bully for you. I, on the other hand, will purchase my next phone hungrily

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