Chinese university students promoting individual ability.

[Shaun__]

The price the world pays for electronics is higher than anyone ever wants to admit. Can you imagine if your local university canceled classes for a couple months and forced people to go work in fast food restaurants for less than a dollar an hour?

THOUSANDS of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed.

Students from Huai'an in Jiangsu Province were driven to a factory in the city run by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Company after the plant couldn't find sufficient workers for the production of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 5, they said in online posts.

They started work on the production line last Thursday and were being paid 1,550 yuan (US$243.97) a month for working six days a week, she said.

According to a China National Radio report, teachers from local schools admitted suspending routine classes over the next one or two months. They said the internships were a compulsory course for students to "experience working conditions and promote individual ability," the report said

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[SoTxBob]

Re: Chinese university students promoting individual ability

Imagine the fallout if this was in any other country ....

 

[Nordling]

Re: Chinese university students promoting individual ability

Reminds me a bit of when I was in the Navy and they had a program called Pre-School Indoctrination (PSI), in which you spent six months on board a ship as an "unrated striker" (a seaman without a specialty but looking forward to one). The idea was that it'd be an incentive to do well in tech school, when you saw how rough life was as a "deck ape." The concept may have been sound but I saw no indication that it actually worked.

 

[bob]

Re: Chinese university students promoting individual ability

Imagine the fallout if this was in any other country ....

seems to me that our desire to be consumers have allowed us to silently partner with the chinese government and objectify chinese students for our own gratification ....

and so it goes :whistle:

 

[SoTxBob]

Re: Chinese university students promoting individual ability

Imagine the fallout if this was in any other country ....

seems to me that our desire to be consumers have allowed us to silently partner with the chinese government and objectify chinese students for our own gratification ....

and so it goes :whistle:

... actually.... might not be that bad tho if something like this were to happen here. Put some of the whiney, entitled bitch ass generation to work to get a grasp of reality. lol.. mehh nevermind. :lol: :evil: :lol: