THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Ichirou on April 17, 2010, 09:21:21 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/7597344/Microsoft-accused-of-using-teenage-slave-labour-to-build-Xboxes-in-China.html
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The report by the National Labour Committee, a US advocacy group for the rights of workers used by big corporations, alleged that 16 and 17 year olds were working 15-hour shifts in crowded conditions often without air-conditioning.
Managers at the KYE Systems factory in Dongguan, southern China, were accused of controlling and bullying workers who sleep 14 to a room and "shower" by taking sponge baths from a small plastic bucket of water.
"The factory is very crowded. In one workshop measuring around 105ft by 105ft, there were nearly 1,000 workers.
"In the summer, temperatures can exceed 86 degrees and workers leave their shifts dripping in sweat.
"It is only when the foreign clients show up that management turns on the air conditioning," the report's authors alleged, citing testimony from workers.
"Conditions are so bad and work at the factory so exhausting," one worker was quoted as saying, "that there are not many people who can bear it for more than a year, and almost never past two years. Most workers flee after just six or eight months."
Following the report, the software giant said it was sending a team of independent auditors to the inspect factory, adding that the company already conducted quarterly on-site assessments.
"We have a team of independent auditors en route to the facility to conduct a complete and thorough investigation," said Brian Tobey, who heads manufacturing for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices unit, in a blog post on the company's website.
"If we find that the factory is not adhering to our standards, we will take appropriate action," Mr Tobey said, adding that documentation on worker age required by the company had shown no incidence of child labour.
"Worker overtime has been significantly reduced, and worker compensation is in line with the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition standards for the Dongguan area."
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We know who to blame for those shitty d-pads >:(
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Isn't most chinese labor slave labor? MS isn't doing anything thousands of other companies are doing.
We know who to blame for those shitty d-pads >:(
Pools of sweat corroded the contacts inside the controller.
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Read these news earlier, on another site, but it was about the company that MS contracted to build shit was doing it. Not MS
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Passing the buck - the Microsoft way.
These aren't third party controllers. It's MS's responsibility to make sure they're not paying for fucking slave labor.
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Hey, at least they got paid. The Japs fucked over the Chins a lot worse.
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Don't you mean Micro$oft?
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EVERYBODY WORK
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They have to increase their Asian demographics one way or another!
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"We have a team of independent auditors en route to the facility to conduct a complete and thorough investigation," said Brian Tobey, who heads manufacturing for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices unit, in a blog post on the company's website.
Que the smiley faces, party hats and air conditioning.
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Same exact thing does Nike, Adidas, Puma, Sony, Gucci etc.
News at 11.
That doesn't excuse it Borys :(
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Damn, M$ is so evil. But the X360 controller is still the best controller out there. So they must continue with this.
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Holy fuck a large multinational uses sweatshops. :omg
The real question is, do you own things? Because if you do, I guarantee some of things were made in a sweatshop.
So that makes it suddenly acceptable?
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Sorry, I can't hear you way up here on my high horse.
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I'm not really disagreeing with you at all...It just sucks that a lot of people's reaction to this seems to be "Well, everybody else does it, ho hum."
I doubtlessly own a lot of stuff that's been made in sweatshops...doesn't make it right, and makes me feel like a piece of shit when these stories come to light. I remember hearing stuff about how iPods are made that made me pretty uneasy about owning one.
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You have such a sick, twisted mind, dude. I so wouldn't want to be you.
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Why do Communists even need to work?
Can't they just sit back and ride on the backs of those who choose to be slaves like American communists? :smug