Undercover Reporter: How Foxconn Makes the iPhone 5
From M.I.C. Gadget:
A Chinese news agency, Shanghai Evening Post,
has sent an experienced journalist to slip into the Foxconn Tai Yuan
factory and pretended as a new worker, his mission is to find out how
the new iPhone 5 is produced. The Chinese journalist precisely recorded
his 10 days of working experience in the factory and published a dairy
to disclose the inside story of manufacturing the iPhone 5. The Tai Yuan
Foxconn factory is recently well-known for it’s large-scale workers strike
which took place during March. Back then the factory urgently needs
20,000 more workers because Foxconn has received orders for the
production of iPhone 5. The plants needs to produce 57 million iPhone 5
for each year. Apparently, the journalist only stayed inside the Foxconn
factory for 10 days due to the undesirable working conditions. He has
undergone mean training during the first 7 days and finally got the
chance to take part the producing of iPhone 5 on the 8th day …
Editor note: If you have no patience to read his
orientation experience over at Foxconn, please skip to day 8 section
for the detail on iPhone 5 manufacturing, that is the best part of the
whole undercovered story. But we still highly recommend you to read from
day one as there are many interesting inside stories about Foxconn
working condition that we never heard before.
We have summarized and translated his entire diary as below:
DAY 1: Recruitment – “Good health with Citizen Identity Card”
Recruit of new workers. (Photo Credit: AP)
I have contacted the person in charge of the Human Resource who’s
handling the recruitment and I was told that I can work in Foxonn as
long as I’m healthy and own a citizenship identity card. When I reached
the entrance of Foxconn factory, I was approached by a so-called Foxconn
security guard who asked for 100-200 yuan (USD$15-28) to provide me a
faster way to start working in Foxconn, but I ignored him. I was asked
to fill in a form to test my current state of mentality. There are about
30 mentality questions for me to answer “Yes” or “No” of how do I feel
for the past 30 days. For example one of the questions they asked: “Have you got into a state of mental trance recently ?”...MORE
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