Foxconn May Close Factories In China 476
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Foxconn, the manufacturer whose clients include Apple, Dell, and HP, is on the verge of pulling out of China after a spate of suicides. The CEO has accused workers of killing themselves for financial compensation, and the company has stopped suicide payments to suicide victims' families. Foxconn's CEO also told investors that it is considering moving its production operations to Taiwan, and automating many parts of its business, a move which could see 800,000 workers lose their jobs."
Re:Instead of actually addressing the problem... (Score:3, Funny)
No, it solves the problem as they are moving to ROBOTRON IV are workers are programmed no to commit suicide unless their boss tells them to do so.
Those robots will never fit inside a standard sized Suicide Booth [wikipedia.org] so chances are they'll work in those factories until their little robot arms fall off ;-)
Re:They all must take their own lives now (Score:5, Funny)
Foxconn Employee: Yes, there's a difference?
Foxconn Exec: Yes, yes there is. You know what you have to do
Foxconn Employee: No
Foxconn Exec: Yes, for that. We can't exactly sell them like this, can we?
Foxconn Employee: Um, I would buy one like that.
Foxconn Exec: Really? Hmmm
Foxconn Employee: Thank you.
Foxconn Exec: Oh, not good for you, good for me. It's my idea now.
Foxconn Employee: No
Foxconn Exec: Yes, yes it is. You know what you have to do
Foxconn Employee: This just isn't my day.
Foxconn Exec: No, no it isn't.
Robot suicide (Score:5, Funny)
It was like 20 years ago when I was working at the Stanford medical center, they had a mail delivery robot that committed suicide.
For about a year it was zipping around delivering mail, and xrays. It even knew how to take the elevators.
But every now and again it would just hang out by the ATM machine and act weird.
One day it just drove down a flight of stairs and crashed to the bottom shaking the whole building and crushing it's plastic casing.
I had a great photo of it lying in a pool of brown lubricant and battery acid, surrounded by doctors in white and blue coats.
There were rumors that the ATM machine rejected it.
Re:Robot suicide (Score:1, Funny)
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUImjOCg5g [youtube.com]
Re:Suicide Rates (Score:1, Funny)
All 3600 deaths in Canada were due to government mandated listening to Celine Dion, eh.
Re:Suicide Rates (Score:1, Funny)
According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], 75% of suicides are men, while at FoxConn, it's 100%. Clearly FoxConn is a death trap for men.
In other news, people who don't understand statistics continue to fail at it.
They took our jobs (Score:2, Funny)
So, how do they say "Durk er duh!" in Chinese?
Re:Robot suicide (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe she thought he was just after her for her money...