If you have an Apple phone or other device or ever bought something from Sony, HP or Dell? If so you‘ve probably bought something made at Foxconn in Shenzhen China.
The enormous facility in the town of Shenzhen China employs 275,000 folks by some reports and 425,000 by others. Whatever the amount of staff is, the average reported pay is only about $130 per month… How would you feel working 10hr shifts on a fast paced, repetitive production line for just SIXTY FIVE CENTS PER HOUR? Do you think any person in the developed world that BUYS the thousands of gadgets manufactured in China would actually WORK at one of these facilities?
Here’s the worst part about being at Foxconn; you moved there from a little 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 do not know any person where you‘re employed and likely do not even begin to know the individuals that you live withinside the walled-in Foxconn compound. How long before you end up going mad?
The work conditions in the giant facility in Shenzhen are probably not superb. Foxconn makes billions of dollars in profits, and one employee when talking about the conditions of work had this claim :
I like to sometimes drop things so I am able to bend over and pick them up. Its like getting a break.
Does that sound like a nice place to work to you?
It makes me feel bad thinking about the problems they have, but on the other hand hopefully they don’t make the items that we use to take our minds off of daily life like a Guitar Hero PS2 bundle. Foxconn produces many different products for different corporations so it’s probable if you’re shopping for new digital camera sales it could be made there as well.
Next time you are at the drive through at McD, and they forgot your napkins again, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! Unwind, and put things into proportion. 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.