From a Tom’s Hardware story about Foxconn, the company that builds Apple’s products (my emphasis):
Foxconn has been in the press a lot over the last few weeks because of a bout of suicides at one of its factories. The company has given raises; put nets up around the buildings to stop jumpers; hired councilors and exorcists; given more raises; and issued workers with a ‘no-suicide’ contract (though they took that one back because it was a little insensitive).
Employees committing suicide has become enough of a problem that management had to put nets up around their factory. What on earth goes on in those factories? Steve Jobs goes on about how magical the iPad is, but he failed to mention that it was some sort of dark blood magic that involved human sacrifices.
Someone with cameras and satellite feeds ought to investigate.
The Devil Tesla
June 12, 2010 at 9:52 pm
The suicide rate at Foxconn is actually less than it is for China as a whole (and less than America as a whole), and the company seems to try its hardest to make their suicide rate zero after there was a string of bad press from a few that happened in quick succession. These are industrialists, not phycologists, and they are over-reacting with the nets. I don’t think there is a problem.
Worth mentioning: Steve Jobs gave an interview at D8 where he took the issue seriously when asked. (text summary)
> Someone with cameras and satellite feeds ought to investigate.
Believe me, Apple + Suicide + Sweatshops? Someone will.