It's much much worse than that. There no "the woman", there was "a woman" who was hired to play the part. The rest of the operation is call center sweat shop/boiler room. Often the people involved are being held against their will.
apparently this is (or was) a job in japan. companies would hire what amounts to an actor to get screamed at by the angry customer, and pretend to get fired on the spot. rinse, repeat whenever such appeasement is required.
It's not like that fact is hidden or unexpected. These people knowingly took jobs there. They almost certainly were on a long waiting list with many other candidates who also wanted the job.
Regardless, it doesn't matter how "stir crazy" one is going from being stuck indoors, the appropriate response is never to rape women.
[It got long. I just thought I'd share an experience]
I worked in the company for sometime. Was visiting from their subsidiary in my country for some time. There was a young lady just outside the mobility HQ main gate camped every day speaking something on the loudspeaker. I didn't understand anything except that she was speaking in a very passionate voice and it seemed a bit broken too, a little pleading. No one would go near her or talk to her or take her pamphlets. Not the employees, not a TV crew, nor reporters and she was there everyday till afternoon from morning. I also noticed some photos there, among which some were in a factory worker's uniform (jacket, head protection etc). Though I could guess but I wasn't sure.
One day I walked up to her. She thanked me and told me in her broken English that her husband had died in a factory accident and the company was not owning it. What I understood was "they are not even talking to me". She had all the pamphlets in Korean, only one piece of paper in English which she gave to me and I was going through it. It would have been 1-2 minutes max and three guards basically swooped down upon me and pretty much pulled me aside while shouting at me that what I was doing was illegal and that couldn't talk to her in their broken English. They took the photo of my ID Card and told me "this is warning" and left me alone right there. By the day end I had received a call from my manager who asked me to refrain from getting into it. It was lunch break so when I went back to my office people were looking at my suspiciously. I was just out of college. It was a scary experience.
When the guards were pulling me away the lady was the only person protesting and none of other employees pretty much even looked at me. When I asked a Korean colleague in office that afternoon why everybody is looking at me like this and why no one talking to me suddenly he didn't say anything and remained silent and then softly "we only talk work, no personal". I guess people get conditioned. Even I didn't talk to her again. But I used to nod and smile at her and she always used to smile back.
I left the company after few months. No, I wouldn't say that was the reason. It's strange but I just can't bring myself to buy a company product till today. If someone asks me for a gadget recommendation and I find something decent in their catalog I do recommend that but I personally have not been able to get one myself since then. This incident stayed with me and whenever I think of the company somehow that woman's image flashes in front of me.
My mother used to work as an artisan in a theatre and the two worst offenders of this sort were:
-Sceneshifters, whose relations with their superior were a little bit too good so instead of doing their jobs they left the work to my mom's co-workers at the same time reporting hours for that.
-Actors with a long-term employment contract. In theory they were required to participate in at least one play every two years, but in reality the theatre could not afford to lose them and their brand, so they went years without even stepping in the building.
On a smaller scale every sufficiently large corporation will have at least one such a person per team.
Ive worked in factories in the US in a software/robotics role so the general terribleness of her job didnt surprise me.
Sounds like they have a few terrible managers/shift leaders there to say the least.
Those environments are taxing to work in, poor benifits, lack of dignity given to lower level employees, and i thought it was a great podcast to be released on black friday weekend as we all buy things online.
I'm guessing he's referring to the Traigle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Basically the management locked the women working at the factory in because they thought they would sneak out instead of working. So when a fire broke out the women couldn't escape.
The reckless and insane behavior of the employees looks like cheap TV comedy.
Using the break time to fish in ponds with toxic products until the water boils? And then eating the floating fish? And doing that in the same ponds again and again?
Not really. I believe the journalist did sign a document that she knew where the emergency exits were, and the only "damning" thing she found on-site was an unclean bathroom and generally difficult work.
This whole thing seems like such a non-story to me. Maybe it's because I've worked in factories before, but I've personally had more harrowing experiences on my 1st day than anything mentioned in this article.
It says there are 400,000 people working for Foxconn in Shenzhen. 300,000 of these are unqualified workers aged about 20 years old. There is high turnover.
They work for 10 hours a day, with 1 hour for lunch and 10 minutes in the day to go to the bathroom. After the financial crisis they have been cutting staff and work pressure has increased. Managers intentionally introduce faults on production lines to see if workers spot the errors, if they do not, they are punished. They are also punished for talking to each other or dozing off.
There is a strict hierarchy, with little communication between managers and staff. Managers manage by shouting at staff, there is little respect for individuals. After 3 or 4 months working together colleagues don't even recognise each other.
After the spate of suicides management has increased psychological support programs, but a spokesman says with 420,000 staff they are unable to understand everybody's mental health issues.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68444058
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