Wired did a prominent article about the Taiwan-owned Foxconn plant that builds IPhones that had to install anti-suicide nets and put in no-suicide clauses in worker contracts to keep the suicide rate down from the 14 who killed themselves in 2010. Turns out that’s better than most Chinese factories. When 300 who worked at a park in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province that builds XBoxes all asked for a raise they were told they could either quit and get a severance payment, or keep their jobs at the old rate. Most took the package, but then were out their jobs and didn’t get any pay.
Now a Boeing union would just call for a strike, but these guys decided to climbed onto the roof of a building and threatened to all jump off unless they got their money or jobs as promised. Not surprisingly production stopped while they were on the roof, which is about what a strike does. It took the mayor until 9PM of the next day to talk them down. Microsoft is investigating this story that appeared on a government protest website in China.
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I’ve had to repair 3 Xboxs in my life due to overheating. Just disassembling them has to be on some level of hell. I can’t imagine doing it all day in their conditions.
i worked in the xbox kinect test group and we had dead xboxes lining the walls, they made good doorstops. they are designed to be difficult to open up. I saw the revisions to fix the overheating problem, the later models have a copper tube to take heat to the mother of all finned heat sinks.