Undercover reporter details work at Foxconn's iPhone plant

This is a c|net story and appears to be a report from a larger posting from the Shanghai Evening Post.  The worker who broke the story talks about his 10-days working at Foxconn making the backplate for the new iPhone 5.

It would seem he didn't get what he was expecting.

The reporter worked a night shift, which included a midnight to 6 a.m. stint without a break. He was in charge of marking the smartphone's backplate in four points using an oil-based paint pen. He worked with dozens of other employees doing the same thing, and the goal was to do it as fast as possible.

If you read the translated version of this story at SEP and have ever applied for a job working in a factory you will see many familiar things.  For instance during the application process you are given a test designed to determine your level of intelligence.  I'm not sure why they need to know this but my guess is that they are looking for a certain type of person to work there.

Factory work is not easy either, the hours are long and the work is repetitive.  On the side of the factory they get paid based on how many products they move out the door and the more they move the higher the profit margins.  If you have one assembly line running slow the factory risks missing their profit mark and starts losing money.

I wouldn't be surprised if the poor guy who submitted his story gets a visit in the middle of the night, heck it might have already happened.

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