Yes but you are already paying for a smartphone and an extra $40 a month is a lot

I one time spent 5 hours with my colleague troubleshooting a complex laboratory slide printer at 4 in the morning. It was the only printer we had that could print histopathology slides, so until we had it fixed the entire histo department was closed.

Hey now, we're busy hating on China and pretenting "large, profit driven corporations aren't the problem, China is the problem."

Don't go spouting logic and sanity in here, how dare you!

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What a load of crap. A month or so after the covid restrictions, definitely hell. For all of China. Everyone was getting sick, it was hard. An opportune time to "report" on such conditions if your goal is to make Chinese factories seem like hell.

Having worked as a consultant in MANY Chinese factories, I simply can't believe this is anything more than a continued effort to condition westerners into believing China is a horrible place with horrible leaders and horrible bosses.

Tell that to the thousands of Chinese workers I've met who work in conditions that are as normal as one would expect from a normal workplace. I can imagine peak times will be a constant rush, if China doesn't make your stupid iPhone 15 that you just HAVE to have, some other country will, and it'll be just as "hell" for them as it is for China. More so, considering how inexperienced they'll be at doing it, how many "these things happen in a new factory" problems pup up and how much pressure a new workforce will be under to produce your damn phones and iPads.

Still, besides the point, articles like this aren't about bringing the truth to westerners, they're about creating and sustaining a narrative that keeps the west fearing and hating China.

This is NOT reality for the people of China. I have firsthand experience with this, 17 years of it. Go ahead and tell me how wrong I am because you've read a ton of news articles about it.

Confirmed.

3 It's better than dirt farming in Outer Mongolia.

>The company now keeps its basic monthly salary at about 2,200 yuan ($324),

Let me also phrase it a different way, for those that are interested in any of this to begin with do you not think they wouldn't want the best chance of survival in caw of emergencies? If this matters to folks then they want the best and can make sense to then get the best instead. Simple really.

If you're only working half as much, why would you expect the same pay?

That sounds like socialism. Surely the free market will work everything out.

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Where you have to keep up a high pace of work day in and day out and the pay is kinda trash.

Old Motorola

Sorry to confuse you.

All iPhone buyers/users should be required to read this article. I own Apple stock and it grieves me.

Bruh you're talking about failed companies, how they going to help prop your idea? Better to have left that out than to weaken your stance.

Found the team leader.

I assume you can turn off this feature, right. I'm not even black, and I'm scared of the cops and don't want them showing up unexpectedly.

A job is a job if it pays you on time.

At this rate I am reading, I am starting to think people are expecting jobs and get paid while doing either whatever they want, for as long as they want, or nothing at all.

It's quite complicated but a company generally only goes to 0 when they declare bankruptcy. Chapter 7 bankruptcy means they will no longer exist (sold off to pay debtor's), however can can declare chapter 11 where they work with debtors to pay down the debt, they still need exist as a company. Stocks fall that low because the company is dead, the company does not die because the stock is that low.

I also should not have said a stock price of zero, but should have said virtually zero, such as movie pass now at 0.0001$.

can stocks go to zero

People are still buying apple products ? Lmao

As someone who's been to actual factories overseas, they don't have to have brutal conditions. Factory conditions actually vary.

But you are right about those local areas. Companies choose these areas because labor is cheap due to it being a developing country. Many of these countries are very poor and lack social safety nets. I remember reading once that a factory closed down in a developing country, and thousands of young kids were forced into the sex trade. It's a brutal reality that doesn't get acknowledged. If I was a 9 year old girl, I would much rather work 12 hours straight sewing than being raped by grown men all day.

That doesn't mean people should be exploited, but it also doesn't mean they have the average developed country life available to them.

Everyone likes to believe they haven't inadvertently supported these horrific working conditions, but at some point they have because ethical consumerism under capitalism isn't a reality. At some point, we have all bought a product that was made by exploited workers.

Everything you use is made in similar conditions. This is what being an assembler in a production environment looks like.

Had this problem with my old Galaxy Grand Prime. It had basically no form af anti-touch protection, and you could dial 911 from a single button on the lock screen. I believe it called 911 seven times while I had it. One time it called three times in the same day: one pocket dial, then two more redials via my Bluetooth speaker (most BT devices redial the last number if you press the call button, another terrible feature).