What is the underlying reason for the phenomenon of Foxconn jumping off buildings? Does anyone know?

Those psychologists and psychiatrists who claim to be extremely knowledgeable, how can you understand the pain of a 25-year-old boy being forced to work overtime? In a high-intensity labor environment, we stand and work a 12-hour day shift every month, and then a 12-hour night shift the next month. This rotation lasts for 6 months, without a Sunday or an hour off. I'm tired. My friend comes to see me on Sunday. Can I not work overtime? no! The supervisor is very determined! Such days include National Day! Waking up in the dark and falling asleep at dawn, is this how people live?

I tell you, people can sleep while walking. They take steps and fall asleep while walking. Take a few steps, take a glance, and continue to sleep while walking. When eating, the person falls asleep with rice in his mouth, and wakes up to take a few more bites. Regardless of whether I work day or night shifts, if I am really unbearably sleepy, I can enjoy squatting in the toilet for a while. It's not that I don't sleep when I get home from get off work, it's that I'm too tired. I finally fall asleep and I can't sleep well. I wake up automatically after seven or eight hours. I'm very sleepy and want to sleep, but I really can't because it's daytime. The biological clock is turned upside down. It's useless even if I'm lazy in bed, I still have to go to work when the time comes. It’s not that my sleeping environment is not good. I rent a house outside, and FOXCONN provides rent subsidies. It sounds very humane, but now I am more willing to give money to FOXCONN to pay for my health. DOUBLE PAY is also fine, as long as it can take care of my health. Heal the root cause of my illness! ! !

Have you ever heard of neurological headaches? But have you ever heard of neurological headaches caused by excessive fatigue? It was at this time that I fell into the root of my illness. Headache, inexplicable pain, as if there is an awl stuck in my brain. No matter day or night, no matter how long I sleep, as soon as I wake up, I have a headache like an evil god possessing me. I was shocked at first, so I went to Xixiang Hospital for an electroencephalogram, but the doctor said there was nothing abnormal. I went back and asked my supervisor, but he didn’t know either. But when I mentioned it to my colleagues, they said they had the same problem and had headaches. The previous old employees had told them that they also had headaches, and the results of the examination were neurological headaches caused by excessive fatigue. If it's temporary, that's fine. It's a pity that I left FOXCONN for ten years. In the past ten years, every time I stayed up late, no matter how long I slept, I would always have a headache when I woke up. Although the intensity had been greatly reduced, the feeling of discomfort and unclearness in my brain was always there. The beginning of it all came from Foxconn, because in the years before that, I didn’t even know what a headache was! Thinking of this, I have to say hello to Terry Gou again.

I still remember one evening, before going to work, I was awakened from my dream by the laughter of the TV interview downstairs. I was confused and wondered why they were laughing so happily. Then I suddenly realized that I hadn’t laughed in a long time. I opened my eyes and looked at the dark sky outside the window. The boundless darkness enveloped me. I sat up suddenly, then sat on the bed in a daze. There was no light in my world. . . I asked myself, why is my life so miserable? My mind is getting darker and darker. When we arrived at the factory, the class meeting before work was held on the roof of the fifth floor. Under the stars, there were a large number of young men lying on the floor strewn about to catch up on their sleep before going to work. These people were all around 20, a very lively age. I would like to ask psychologists, what is the reason why they lie on the floor to catch up on sleep before going to work? Are they psychological needs or physical needs? I would like to ask psychologists, what is the reason that makes me live a life of blindness? When I go to bed in the morning, the sun has not yet come up, and when I wake up at night, the sun has already set. There is no sunshine in my world. Please ask a psychologist, how can you remove the darkness in my mind?

I despise psychologists, because they have no experience of working a 12-hour night shift. How can they have good medicine to deal with this psychological darkness?

And this is just FOXCONN’s tiredness, the real suffering and pain lies behind. You know that sulfuric acid corrodes the skin, but have you ever thought about what it feels like to immerse your hands in sulfuric acid without wearing any gloves? The concentration of this sulfuric acid is 50%! I've done this many times, and it hurt at first. Later, my skin reacted to stress and the stratum corneum thickened automatically, making my hands rough and less painful. It’s not that I want to abuse myself, it’s that the FOXCONN production line’s material belt is too fast. If I follow the steps and take care of labor insurance before going to work, I won’t be able to keep up with its speed. If I can’t complete the task, my supervisor will come over. Working without any protection is the fastest.

My position is an electroplating engineer. I lead 4 technicians and open 2 electroplating production lines. I adjust the machines and add chemicals. The chemicals I want to add are not only sulfuric acid, but also caustic soda, nickel sulfate, and tin-lead solution. There are also palladium nickel solution and gold potassium cyanide solution on the production line. Wait, gold potassium cyanide, yes, gold cyanide, the best gold plating solution carrier on the planet, synthesized from potassium cyanide. Everyone knows that potassium cyanide is highly toxic, so we only wear gloves when handling this plating tank. But because the skin has been in contact with palladium-nickel medicine, the hand will turn black, and the skin will be in contact with tin-lead medicine, and the hand will be red. Then the hand will be purple, red, and black. I'm not the worst offender. The worst offender is Engineer Chen in the department. When he reached for a steamed bun in the cafeteria in the morning, another girl reached out for one at the same time. As a result, the girl saw such a shady hand at a glance and was so frightened that she screamed and threw it away. Engineer Chen ran away after eating the steamed buns. From then on, Engineer Chen became the laughing stock of everyone, but this story always makes me feel sad. I don’t want to say too much about potassium gold cyanide. Just think that one kilogram of potassium cyanide can poison 50,000 people. Tin-lead potion, it is not easy to get lead-free solder. My hands have been exposed to so many tin-lead potions that many years later I had to be wary of my daughter who was about to be born. Lead poisoning is no joke. The lead I was exposed to was in an ionic state. Thank God my daughter is healthy!

Forget it, I don’t want to recall too many old things from the past. There is always a road ahead. For most people, working at Foxconn will indeed be difficult, but don’t always think about jumping off the building. Just switch to another one and leave it.

I am a typical example. It was really easy when I first joined FOXCONN. I sat in the office and read documents. After sitting for a long time, I was sent to the laboratory for analysis. The junior section chief didn't like me, so after a while, he sent me directly to the production line, and hell began. The hard days of confusing black and white came unexpectedly. High-intensity workload, working overtime every day, tired, tired after the first time. My mind becomes dark, there is no sunshine, and I don’t know where the way out is. One time, at noon on a hot day, I changed my co-workers after lunch, adjusted the machine and put the tape. I went to the pillar in front of the electric fan at the door to blow some air to cool down, because I was sweating through my chest, and the electroplating workshop was because Many solutions are heated, so heat on top, and only have air conditioning in the office. As soon as I stood still and the temperature had not cooled down, the Taiwanese junior section leader opened the door and walked in. He stared at me coldly and then went to the office. I knew what he meant, but I thought that Ming people don’t do secret things. I just blew the wind. There was no need to pretend, she still stood there and waited for him to enter the office before returning to her machine. Then the supervisor was called into the office. When he came out, he came directly to me, asked me about it, unplugged the power supply, and went to the storage room while resisting the fan. At that moment, my heart felt very cold. Damn, you are a human being and I am a human being. You have a junior college degree and I have a bachelor's degree in electroplating. In terms of age, you are only a little older than me. Why can't you turn on the air conditioner and I can't even turn on the fan? You took your lunch break and I wasn't lazy at work. My machine was well adjusted for you and the tapes were put away. Why don't I have the right to cool off? Aren't you a Taiwanese and I'm a mainlander? It was my experience at FOXCONN that made me understand that people are not inherently equal and discrimination will always exist. The huge difference in our treatment actually comes from our different identities, because even a Taiwanese who doesn't know how to read a few words is at least a section leader (manager), while a middle-level cadre will never do anything no matter how many years he works hard. It’s also difficult to get to the level of section leader. It was this experience that was the original motivation for me to apply to move overseas without hesitation when I got the opportunity.

My story is just the tip of the iceberg. FOXCONN’s management has its chronic problems. This chronic disease stems from the traditional culture that every Taiwanese man must serve in the military. It is the military career that gave Taiwanese people the firm belief that "the official level will kill everyone." Ignore any quality issues for now, first look at the qualifications of the department heads. The ones with higher qualifications are correct, and then recommend them to the department heads with lower qualifications. After the old section chief who liked me left, my good days ended. During the award evaluation at the end of that time, the head teacher was deducted all his money. Then a group of section chiefs came to my department. After I had finished my classes and returned to my home, they told me that the machines in my class were not in good condition. They gave me a penalty note and deducted my year-end bonus. When I heard that reason at work the next day, I immediately knew that it was just an excuse. I was definitely wronged. I am one of the only three people in the department with more than 100 people who have a professional background and practical experience. The reason to punish me is just to inflict a crime.

Because I have the title of "Master*" among my co-workers, I will answer their technical questions when I have time. They all know that I have been wronged, and they advise me to go to my boss to redress my grievances or write a letter to the general manager's office. I thank you. They had good intentions and then didn't move. Is it useful? My co-worker who was punished was so angry that he ran to the assistant manager's office to plead his case. In the end, he no longer had to guess and was kicked out. And this guy uses the same machine as me to produce the same product, and loses more than 100 grams of gold and more than 500 grams of palladium and nickel every week. I work with the night shift engineer to save the company more than 100 grams of gold every week. , more than 500 grams of palladium and nickel made up for their losses. I know that the junior section chief asked him to write several reviews for this, but he never praised me. At that time, the price of one gram of gold was about 85 to 100 yuan, and the price of palladium was 1/2 to 1/2 of the price of gold. 1/3. During the gold plating process, part of the gold will be restored on the plating tools, and the gold will be as big as mung bean grains. I know that some engineers secretly collect them and take them away, but gold is just a metal to me, and I have never taken away a grain. Gold because it doesn't belong to me. The class teacher who picked on me has a high degree of education, but he always keeps a picture of a naked woman on his computer desktop. People think this is obscene. Let me defend myself against such a gangster. I am not so mean!

The time I really made up my mind to leave FOXCONN was during the Chinese New Year, when a friend from middle school came to see me. After we talked, I realized how miserable my life was. We both studied chemical engineering, but how could the treatment and working environment be so different? My friends also advised me to leave. Then on the first day of work in the new year, I resolutely resigned.

When I returned to Xi'an, the working environment was not satisfactory, so I quickly slipped into a foreign hospital to study English. As a result, I found out about Canadian Skilled Immigration and applied as soon as possible. Then I returned to Shenzhen to work part-time while learning English and handling immigration procedures. After spending some time this time, I joined EPSON, and the working environment and remuneration have been greatly improved. Working in OFFICE is relaxing and quiet, the remuneration is much higher, and there is no compulsion to work overtime. In fact, it has only been half a year since I resigned from FOXCONN. I am still the same person. When I join a different company, my treatment will be different immediately. The benefits of job-hopping are immediate. After working for a while, my boss discovered that I knew a lot about electroplating, so he left this area entirely to me. It feels great to be on my own. I built my own laboratory, trained assistants, made various document specifications myself, and occasionally traveled to suppliers to deal with problems. This is the most comfortable period of my working experience. Then smoothly transition to immigrant visa to go abroad.

In fact, there are two main problems with FOXCONN, one is the issue of mandatory overtime, and the other is the night shift. These two questions seem simple, but they are the core of Guo Taiming's interests.

There is no requirement for mandatory overtime, but this is an unwritten rule. Under normal circumstances, there should be three shifts, but the labor cost of the third shift will be higher than that of the second shift. Therefore, my department has basically never implemented 3 shifts or 2 shifts continuously. You can calculate the specific economic accounts yourself. It’s not that Terry Gou can’t afford workers. It’s more in his interest to choose two shifts that make workers more tired. He can pay 1.5 times overtime pay, but because the wage base is very low, overtime pay is Not much money either. Once orders decrease, it can easily return to the normal state of two shifts. With fewer workers, management costs are low. As for whether workers can endure 12 hours a month and jump off buildings, that is not Terry Gou’s business. There used to be a female reporter who didn't know that she had reported Foxconn's overtime and mandatory overtime issues. Terry Gou immediately became angry and filed a 30 million lawsuit against the female reporter. The female reporter was frightened. The reason why he was angry was obvious. In fact, with the same production plant and equipment, Terry Gou earns the highest profit. Otherwise, there are so many foundries, and he is the only one who can make the biggest profit.

There is also the issue of night shifts. Think about it, when all EPSON employees go to bed at 10:00, but FOXCONN is still producing, which one creates greater residual value? The main effects of night shift are physical and psychological. When you work a 12-hour night shift, your body lacks the nourishment of sunlight. I was not only tired at the time, but also my psychology was really dark. He is just pessimistic and cannot see his future. And everyone else seems happier than me. I can't stand the night shift, but I've found that some people are fine and don't have headaches.

I don’t know if those who jumped off the building were affected by these two reasons. But I really know that on the FOXCONN production line, forced overtime and night shifts are inevitable, because his production line must be fully operational 24 hours a day to maximize profits.

There is no reason why any employee should always work the day shift while others only work the night shift. Rotation is a rule.

As for why employees endure compulsory overtime, I analyzed my own reasons and found that: I was a fledgling at that time, and I had just entered the society to participate in work. The habitual thinking of obedience was still there, and the production tasks were there. My supervisor was working overtime, so I was not allowed to not work overtime, and it was morally unjustifiable, because everyone was working overtime, so my not working overtime seemed to be causing inconvenience to others. For those who have just come out, their personal consciousness has not yet risen, and they do not have a clear understanding of the employment relationship between capitalists. Besides, I have just arrived in Shenzhen and am unfamiliar with the place. I need a place to stay to familiarize myself with the environment. In this way, you will wrong yourself until you can't bear it anymore and leave. Regardless of the thousands of people queuing up to join Foxconn every day, I estimate that there are at least 5 million people leaving Foxconn. When I first went to Fuding, my job number was already 25,000. In fact, there were only over 2,000 people in the factory and it was no more than 5 years old. Of the 20 college students in the same batch, only 2 were left after one year, and only 1 was left after 2 years. But there are also people who leave and then go back. My college classmate has been working there for 12 years and has never left. People can tolerate it as long as they can. I believe this may be a genetic problem. However, Foxconn actually recruits mostly those who have just graduated from technical secondary schools and vocational high schools in the Mainland. They are recruited as soon as they graduate. Based on the above reasons, they are easy to manage and hard-working! As a college graduate, it took me a while to develop a sense of resistance.

If you can't stand it, don't jump off the building, just do something else. Don't listen to Guo Taiming's lies. What's the relationship problem? There are so many men and women with relationship problems in Shenzhen that they all jump off the building? Don’t listen to those shameless experts: it’s lower than the national suicide level! Those experts are hired with huge sums of money! Otherwise, this kind of money distribution thing should be put aside next time. Terry Gou is superstitious about Feng Shui. It is said that the reason why Foxconn’s headquarters is located in the strange place of Longhua Pinus is the result of a Feng Shui master’s survey! ! The same goes for those reporters. When they were undercover, they didn’t actually work night shifts on the production line for a month. Then you will understand when you look at their own psychological changes. If you don’t understand, will you go crazy if you look at yourself no longer young after doing this for 3 months?