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The Rise Of The Teenage Intern: How China Keeps 'iGadget' Costs Down
China is increasingly relying on 'student interns' to make gadgets like iPhones in Western China, according to The Wall Street Journal, where lower wages make it harder to attract 'real' migrant workers. As the following brief clip explains, the government has created 'vocational' schools in very rural areas of China for high-school students but the quality of education (and 'jobs') is not what they had hoped...
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Chinese Devry
Forward proletariat! Your Party chairman has your back!
student interns?
that's how the wheels of congressional legislationeering get greased
hugs,
house subcommittee on getting more interns
? Woodrow Wilson
Doing everything to keep the system working for everybody until they emerge as number one.
Better not rock the boat if you have the lifevest in your reach, take it on and then wait for the first sucker to rock the boat.
1 free Iphoney for you when you complete your task? task, assemble 100 of'em, you have 10minutes, since 5minutes ago. failure to do so = no rice bowl
It seems to be a round-about way to exploit child labor and using PR
make it appear to be educational, but they just got busted.
Scott Rozelle: iExploit iTakeAdvantage iEphebophile
iAsshole iOldPervert iStanfordUniversity
Must be why new iPhones are bending in people's pockets.
Just a few days and we have Bendgate.
Do a quick search on Bendgate and laugh your ass off. We'll see if it has any effect on the most overvalued corporation in world history.
Ahahahaha!!! Thanks for the link, that is fuckin hilarious. Apparently, they decided not to stress test their phones?
Goodbye Apple, hello Applesoft.
fucking slavery.
LOL! Is it any worse than Amerika's feral Kardashian yutes getting into lifetime slavery debts while the morons cheer on State U as they become lifetime debtor-serfs. Someone has to pay for those illiterate tenured college professors' golden pension plans plus the college administrators taking home big bucks. They have a lifetime to pay off their coolege edukayshun.
As long as the team gets into a bowl game then life is good. Any bowl game will do.
Motel 6 Mango Bowl played in Bismarck on New Years Eve. Watched by millions of serf idiots on ESPN 4.
Chinese tourists, besotted with image of Paris, find harsher reality Some Chinese are targeted and attacked by thieves. Others encounter indifference or rudeness, and some vow not to return.
PARIS — Before arriving in the French capital, Wu Shuyun, a 56-year-old Chinese housewife, imagined Paris to be like a pristine film set for a romantic love story, picturing herself as a glamorous princess surrounded by elegant Parisians, decked out, perhaps, in Chanel.
Instead, Wu from Kunming in southwest China, said she was shocked by the cigarette butts and dog manure, the rude insouciance of the locals and the gratuitous public displays of affection. Though friends had warned her about thieves targeting Chinese people, she said she was nevertheless surprised when a member of her tour group was mugged on a packed Metro car, as other riders watched.
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2024601732_parischinesetouristsxml.html
Welcome to the diverse, MENA-saturated EU!
They are targets for sure; remember the Chinese grad student beaten to death by several illegal Mexicans? [ok, only 2 of the five were illegals]. How about the Chinese 56 y.o. UNC cancer research professor beaten to death by 2 of Al Sharpton's Boyz 1 block from campus during his lunch break? Both "had long arrest records." Chapel Hill used to be a safe place before it became, "more diverse."
Even in my neighborhood they're starting to be attacked by Thugs, for example, as they walk out of the gorcery store carrying packages.
The world is getting more dangerous in every corner.
Ha ha.
Chinese government thought it was so smart: "what's better than already cheap labor? FREE labor."
Yea no kidding, free labor and they are laughing to the bank.
They are not that clever, if they were they would allow the students to take a loan to pay them for supplying the valuable training and references for the future.
pffff...I worked on a farm shoveling shit when I was in Junior high, in high school I pumped gas at a gas station. Whats the big deal? At 15, I picked up trash at an amusement park for $1.40 an hour during the summer. One of the funnest jobs I ever had. Trash crew ended our shift just as the park opened. We had the run of the whole park.
I'm fairly sure the cost of living was much lower than it is now.
Her great, great grandaddy was called "coolie" labor. Now she is "hottie" labor.
If it doesn't delay the iPhone 6 order, Americans doesn't give a shit.
Teen interns in China? Fucking slavery everywhere. How about American College professors on food stamp?
http://www.alternet.org/education/professors-food-stamps-shocking-exploi...
LOL! Douchebag liberals on AlterNet still love Obama. Ha Ha!
one of the reasons that a very smaller number of the ruling class can rule is that they always make the ruled fight among themselves.
This is not lost on me. Alternet still loves O so they are total douchebags. ZH is not cheering Obama or the Bush klan or the Clintons. But we can all agree on bombing a country illegally based on a bogus group created by the USA. The left cheering Obam's bombing and the right (foolishly) cheering the military.
Do it for the kids because ISIS is such a threat. The public is so easily manipulated with TV which I never watch.
look, you have to do something with all those bombs and missiles so we can make more, you can only store so many at a time.
I keep hearing how we need moar money for the poor professors. I guess they are right. Serves those horrible students right, demanding a return on their tuition when they should bow down to the almighty Ivory-Tower!
Raped by politically connected administrators. You'd think they'd be quicker.
"Hi income Hi wage service sector job"
That statement alone pretty much discredits anything this guy has to say.
I worked in a co-op program during my senior year in high school, it was a great opportunity to learn a trade. I later went on into engineering but may not if I didnt get the experience to start with.
Not everyone aspires to be a CEO. I think this opportunity is great for these kids. Some will advance and start their own company, others will work for those few.
What about all of our migrants who will do the jobs Americans will not do? Wy not send them to China and let them do all that work for us? Or was that a talking points memo lie? Soledad O'Brien where is your forehead bumper-sticker?
Toys for kids, made by kids. I'm never surprised when I see a 3 year old with an iPhone.
Hard to believe 14 year olds don't jump at the chance of this "vocational training"; namely, standing 16 hours a day snapping apple components together or squinting for 14 hours to see the minute thingies they have to solder togther for the whopping salary of what, $2,000/year?$4,000/year?
Imagine that!
Who knows where these "vocational skills" can lead them?!
They are learning valuable skills that when their degrees turn out to be worthless will enable then to obtain worthwhile employment to service their student loans.
These are NOT interns, they are barely paid and MUST take the position or their school does not give them the degree. Kickbacks all around for the school leaders, who treat the students as feudal chattel.
Apple would like to move production to Vietnamese student interns if they can be had for $.50 a day.