Monday, March 12, 2012

Is Apple a slave master?

If this is the best job you get, you should thank the 'slave master'. With the recent raises and regulations, Apple forces Foxconn to be 'nice'. However, the chance of moving shops to lower-wage countries like Vietnam has been increased. The compensation includes housing, some entertainment and very basic health care.

There is about the same suicide rate with the general population of the same age. It is a boring and repetitive job. Forced OT and long shift are tough to the workers but they are the same reasons why these jobs will never return to US.

Jobs was pushy and sometimes very unprofessional to his engineers/programmers in California. He was tough and sometimes unreasonable but always having a dream. If they did not like it, they could quit - so he was not a slave master.

We should not use a developed country's yardstick to judge a developing country. Decades ago, my starving friend wondered why the west wanted to take away his only job because he was under-aged.

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