To be clear though, the Shaolin temple and pagoda are not in Zhengzhou, but rather in the countryside outside of Zhengzhou.
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Foxconn Offers 'Record-High' Bonuses to Recruit Workers for iPhone 13 Assembly
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Considering that the Chinese economy is skyrocketing constantly, even in global pandemic, in the next few years nobody would want to work in these factories and China will be forced to import workers from less developed countries. It is already not cheap to manufacture anything in China, but still convenient due to logistics and flexible regulations. Tesla started building two factories at the same time, one in China, and one in Germany. The Chinese factory is up and running for more than a year and the German one in still in construction which may not end by the end of this year.
That, and people wanting to travel, see family and friends, and enjoy life after the pandemic instead of spending their time stuck in-doors in a factory working long hours (sometimes with mandatory overtime)
Or maybe iPhone 12 work schedule turned many people off.
iPhone 12 Production Lines Are Running 24 Hours a Day
Foxconn cancels workers' holidays and introduces mandatory overtime to boost output.
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There hasn’t been more than a few dozen positive cases per month in China for the past year.
It is simply due to difficulty in finding workers in China. Look how difficult it is to find workers in the U.S. It’s even more difficult in China given no one else in the world is producing goods in any appreciable quantity, not the U.S., not India, not Vietnam.
More workers = more leaks!
As a side note: I hate these leaks. Yes, the curiosity and anticipation of what's coming next is strong, but...I miss the "good ole days" when Steve Jobs was revealing something the world hadn't already seen photos of smuggled parts of.
"One more thing...." - R.I.P.
As a side note: I hate these leaks. Yes, the curiosity and anticipation of what's coming next is strong, but...I miss the "good ole days" when Steve Jobs was revealing something the world hadn't already seen photos of smuggled parts of.
"One more thing...." - R.I.P.
This again?
13 is not an unlucky number to the Chinese. 13 being an unlucky number is an American thing.
For the Chinese, the equivalent to 13 is 4 because 4 is homophonous to the word "death"
Very true. I shook cherries for three seasons, and to this day get a little nauseous when I see, smell, or taste cherries. 🤢🤢🤢🤢😞
And on triskaidekaphobia: If you get #13 in a race, you are to wear it upside down. There is no telling what will happen if it is worn right-side up.
While on a cruise excursion in Europe, some numbskull commented that we were on the 13th floor. I said, 'Well the 14th floor must just leave you catatonic then, because they lied, it's the 13th.' There were some snickers... Although there are more buildings that have 13th floors. But, yeah, watch a bike race. '13' is often upside down. Kinda silly...
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You could say the same thing about Detroit. (Just kidding. I've never actually been there.) It's a general rule that economic opportunities are greatest in cities...that's why most people move to them. Unfortunately, the result is that the more the people...the greater the chance for less than desirable living conditions for those of little financial means.
Many of these migrant workers can find better livelihoods in their hometowns nowadays. They don't need to move far away from family to make a buck. It's been an ongoing trend in China for years. The labor isn't cheap anymore. What keeps manufacturing there is the supply chain and economies of scale. Sooner or later the assembly work will be taken over by robots.
Most Chinese millennials want to "lay flat" and be live streaming shopping hosts or a fashion influencer. It's the way the world is moving.
I wouldn't be surprised if the bonus were increased significantly again next year.
When did you go to Zhengzhou? A day of development in a Chinese city probably equivalent to a decade of American city’s. I am not sure if you should call a metropolitan skyline like this “poor and dirty”…
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So the next announcement: 'Due to the increased signing bonuses, we are being forced to remove the nets around the buildings because we can't pay to keep them clean, empty, and maintained.' Oops...
True. But maybe they'll give us the option of either getting a charger or those stupid stickers I've never used!
My brother works retail, and called me up one night, I could tell he was upset. He said 'No job is worth this!'. I let him sputter for a while, and then asked what happened.
He said 'People! This job sucks because of all the butt heads I encounter on a daily, no nearly hourly basis! One today threw everything on the floor, kicked it all around, and screamed at me! We called the cops, and they refused to come and even take a report! People do that crap because the cops just don't care! One of these days, someone is going to get killed!' And he was right.
In DizzyWorld, a proud blond 'thing' came into an on property store with essentially part of a fish net stocking over her mouth. Her daughter was properly masked, and I thought 'That poor kid. To have a butt headed parent.' Kids know when their parents are FOS. I reported her to the staff. I'm sure there was some fun going on then.
The pandemic has brought out the worst in so many people, and has also gotten people, in some ways, to realize that they are being starved and paid crap wages by people that really couldn't give less of a crap about it.
And my brother was fired under suspect reasons (he thinks it's his reporting maskless people) and got a job at a different store which takes the whole thing a lot more seriously. I can understand. I worked one job decades ago, and most people there seemed like they were escapees from a penal colony somewhere. They were generally decent people, but would sometimes do stuff that made me really wonder... I can only imagine if all of them are still there, what it's like with all of 'em in that box. YIKES...
I think using dirty and poor is poor choice. But I think what he meant is the general trend for cities like Taiyuan or Zhengzhou.
Most developed cities in China are from Southern party. In fact there are hardly any cities from northern China makes tire 1 cities. Most of them are in tire 2 cities.
Generally, cities from Southern, especially from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei or Guangzhou are more developed, offer more opportunities than counterparts from northern provinces.
There are no doubt that Norther China has been stagnant, in terms of economical development.
Most factories in China do not have enough workers right now. We do business with some and they had to send most office workers to assembly lines and still, they are not able to cope with orders. Plus there was a big increase in prices of raw materials this year. It's quite turbulent year.
Foxconn's profit was down 12% in the first quarter. Or are you confused and think that Apple pays Foxconn's assembly line workers?
I have visited a few Northern Chinese cities like Xi’An, Beijing, Qinhuangdao and Dalian, all stunningly beautiful big cities!
Is it a seasonal job in China, something like strawberry picking in Europe in the summer? If so, no wonder their workers are under such pressure - they need to learn really fast and manufacture as many units as humanly possible in a very short time. Why not automate the whole thing in 2021?
Surely you understand four different angles of the same new building don't represent an entire city?