“They could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?”
It would be nice to cross-reference this article with the dust-up a couple weeks ago about how hard it is to be an engineer at a startup and whining and what not. I mean, here’s a bunch of people celebrating indentured servitude as a competitive edge who just weeks ago were getting all teary eyed because some start up CEO committed suicide. Foxconn has more employee suicide in a quarter than Silicon Valley does in a decade — and the people getting rousted at midnight to climb onto an assembly line because Steve Jobs is a dick aren’t doing it because they are eyeing a 10x exit 24 months down the road. They are expected to get rousted out of bed periodically for the rest of their lives because some 10x asshole wants to change a radius curve measure but needs to hit quarterly numbers, so he can’t wait until, you know tomorrow.
“Our only obligation is making the best product possible by taking jobs out of the US and employing efficient slave labor camps, while raking in $400,000 in profit per employee (more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google). It’s breathtaking.”
