I tell you, people can sleep while walking, walk while sleeping, walk a few steps, earn a glance, and continue to sleep while walking. When eating, people fall asleep with their food in their mouths, so they wake up and eat a few mouthfuls. Whether it's day shift or night shift, I'm really tired and I enjoy going to the bathroom to sleep for a while. I didn't go home from work and didn't sleep, but I was too tired. I finally fell asleep, and I didn't sleep well. Wake up automatically after seven or eight hours, very sleepy. I still want to sleep, but I really can't, because it's daytime and my internal biological clock is upside down. Even if you are lazy in bed, it's no use. I have to work then. It's not that I have a bad sleeping environment. I rent a house outside and Foxconn subsidizes the rent. It sounds very humane, but now I prefer to give money to Foxconn to restore my health, and double salary is also possible, as long as it can cure the root cause of my illness! ! !
Have you ever heard of nervous headache? But have you ever heard of nervous headache caused by fatigue? That was when I was sick. Headache, inexplicable pain, like an awl nailed to your head. No matter day or night, no matter how long you sleep, as long as you wake up, your headache is like an evil spirit. At first, I was shocked. I went to Xixiang Hospital for EEG, and the doctor said there was nothing unusual. Go back and ask the supervisor. He doesn't know either. But when I talked to my colleagues, they said they also had a headache. Former employees have told them that they have had headaches, and the result of the examination is a nervous headache caused by fatigue. If it is temporary, it would be a pity for me to leave Foxconn for ten years. In the past ten years, whenever I stay up a little, no matter how long I sleep, I always feel headache after waking up. Although the degree has been greatly reduced, my brain is uncomfortable and unclear. It all started with Foxconn, because a few years before that, I didn't know what a headache was! Thinking of this, I have to say hello to Guo Taiming again.
I still remember one night, before going to work, I was awakened from my dream by the laughter of a TV interview downstairs, and I wondered why they were laughing so happily. I suddenly realized that I hadn't laughed for a long time. I broke my eyes and looked at the dark sky outside the window. Boundless darkness enveloped me. I suddenly sat up, and then sat on the bed in a daze. My world is not bright. . . I asked myself, why is my life so bitter? My brain is getting darker and darker. When we arrive at the factory, the class meeting before going to work is on the top of the fifth floor. Under the starlight, a large number of young people are lying on the floor, rushing to sleep, and then going to work. These people are all around the age of 20, which is the age of energy. Excuse me, psychologists, what makes them lie on the ground to catch up on sleep before going to work? Is it a psychological need or a physical need? Excuse me, psychologist, what makes me live a day when I can't see the light at both ends? I sleep in the morning before the sun comes out, and I wake up at night and it's already sunset. There is no sunshine in my world. Excuse me, psychiatrist, how can I get rid of my psychological haze?
I despise psychologists because they will not have the experience of working at night for 12 hours continuously. How can they have a good medicine to deal with this psychological gloom?
And this is just Foxconn's fatigue, and the real pain and suffering is behind. You know that sulfuric acid can corrode the skin. Have you ever thought about the taste of soaking your hands in sulfuric acid without gloves? The concentration of sulfuric acid is 50%! I've done this kind of thing many times and it's starting to hurt. Later, the skin responded to the pressure, the stratum corneum automatically thickened, and the hands became rough and less painful. It's not that I want to abuse myself, it's that Foxconn's production line is too fast. If I do a good job of labor protection step by step before going to work, I can't keep up at all. If I can't finish the task, the supervisor will come. Work without any protection is the fastest. My post is electroplating engineer, with four technicians. I run two electroplating production lines. I adjusted all the machines. In addition to sulfuric acid, I want to add chemicals such as caustic soda, nickel sulfate and tin-lead syrup. There are also palladium-nickel reagents and potassium cyanide solution on this production line. Wait, gold cyanide, yes, the best carrier of gold plating solution on earth, gold cyanide, is synthesized with potassium cyanide. Everyone knows that potassium cyanide is highly toxic, so we only wear gloves when handling this plating solution. However, because the skin is exposed to palladium-nickel liquid medicine, the hand will turn black, then it will turn red when exposed to tin-lead liquid medicine, and then the hand will be purple, red and black. I am not the worst. The worst is the engineer Chen in the department. In the morning, when she reached for the steamed bread in the canteen, another girl reached for one at the same time. As a result, the girl saw such a black hand at a glance and threw the steamed bread with a scream. This engineer Chen has become everyone's joke since then, but why do I always feel this story is very sad? I don't want to say too much about potassium cyanide. It is enough to think that one kilogram of potassium cyanide can poison 50 thousand people. Tin-lead solution, it is not so easy to want lead-free solder. My hands are exposed to so many tin-lead solutions that I have to be afraid of my daughter who will be born many years later. Lead poisoning is no joke. The lead I am exposed to is ionic. Thank God, my daughter is healthy!
Forget it. I don't want to recall too much of the past. God won't close one door, but he will open another. For most people, working at Foxconn will be really difficult, but don't always think about jumping off a building. Change, that's it.
I myself am a typical example. It was really easy when I first entered Foxconn. I'm sitting in my office reading documents. After sitting for a long time, he was sent to the laboratory for analysis. The head teacher doesn't like me. After a while, he sent me directly to the production line, and purgatory began. Black-and-white reversal of the bitter days without any precautions, high-intensity workload, overtime every day, tired, tired at first or tired. Psychology becomes dark, there is no sunshine, and I don't know where the way out is. Once, at noon on a hot day, I changed my workmates after lunch, adjusted the machine and put the material belt away, and took advantage of the gap to blow some air in front of the electric fan at the door to cool down, because my chest was sweaty, and because many solutions in the electroplating workshop were heated, they were heated on the heater, and there was only air conditioning in the office. Just standing still before the temperature dropped, the small class teacher in Taiwan Province Province pushed the door and came in. He stared at me coldly and then went to the office. I know what he means, but I don't want to do anything shady. I just blew my hair, so I don't have to pretend. I still stood there waiting for him to enter the office before returning to my machine. Then the supervisor was called into the office, came out to see me directly, asked, unplugged the power directly, and went to the storage room with the fan. At that moment, my heart was particularly cold. You're a fucking human being, and I'm a human being. I am also an undergraduate in electroplating, and you are only a little older than me. Why do you blow the air conditioner and I can't even blow the electric fan? I didn't slack off during your lunch break. My machine has been adjusted for you, and the tape is still there. Why do I have no right to calm down? Aren't you from Taiwan Province Province and I am from Chinese mainland? It was my experience at Foxconn that made me understand that people are born unequal and discrimination always exists. The profound difference in our treatment actually comes from our different identities, because a Taiwan Province native who can't even read a few baskets is at least a class teacher (manager), and it is difficult for a middle school student to reach the level of a class teacher no matter how many years he works hard. It was this experience that became the initial motivation for me not to hesitate to apply for immigration when I met the opportunity later.
My story is just the tip of the iceberg, and Foxconn's management also has its shortcomings. This chronic disease comes from the traditional culture that every man in Taiwan Province Province has to perform military service. It is the military career that has strengthened the belief of "officials first oppress the people" in Taiwan Province Province. No matter what quality problems there are, first look at the qualifications of the department heads. Those with high qualifications are right, and then push them to those with low qualifications. My good days ended when my old head teacher left. At the end of the year, the small section chief was detained. Then a group of class teachers came to my department, and when I got home from work, they said that there was something wrong with the machine in my class, gave me a fine and deducted the year-end award. As soon as I heard that reason at work the next day, I knew it was just an excuse. I must have been wronged. I am one of only three people with professional background and practical experience in the department with more than 0/00 people in/kloc. Punishing me for such a reason only adds insult to the injury. Because I have the title of "master" among the workers, I will answer their technical questions as soon as I have time, and they all know that I have been wronged. They advised me to go to the boss or write to the general manager's office. I thanked them for their kindness and didn't move. Is it useful? My colleague who was punished with me was so angry that he ran to the assistant manager's office to explain. As a result, he swept the door without guessing And this guy and I use the same machine to produce the same product, losing more than 100 grams of gold and 500 grams of palladium and nickel every week. I work with night shift engineers, saving the company 100 grams of gold every week, and more than 500 grams of palladium and nickel make up for their losses. I know the head teacher asked him to write several reviews for this, but he never praised me. At that time, the price of one gram of gold was about 85 to 100 yuan, and the price of palladium was 1/2 to 1/3 of the gold price. In the process of gold plating, some gold will be reduced to the plating tool, which is as big as mung beans. I know some engineers quietly collect it and take it away, but gold is just a metal to me. I never took a piece of gold because it didn't belong to me. Playing tricks on my head teacher, with a high degree, but there is always a picture of a naked woman on someone's computer desktop, which is too obscene. Let me argue with such a rogue, I'm not that cheap!
I really made up my mind to leave Foxconn when my middle school friends came to see me during the Spring Festival. After chatting for a while, I realized how miserable my life was. We both study chemical engineering, but how can the working environment be so different? My friend also advised me to leave. Then on the first day of the new year, I resolutely resigned.
Back in Xi 'an, the working environment was not satisfactory, so I slipped into the outer court to learn English. As a result, I learned about skilled immigrants in Canada there. Apply quickly. Then go back to Shenzhen to work, learn English and go through immigration procedures or something. It took a little time to join Epson this time, and the working environment and treatment have improved a lot. Working in the office is relaxed and quiet, the salary is much higher, and overtime is not forced. Actually, I only resigned from Foxconn for half a year. I'm still the same person. When I entered a different company, the treatment was immediately different. The benefits of this job-hopping are immediate. After working for a while, the boss found that I knew a lot about electroplating and left this piece to me completely. It feels good to be independent. Set up your own laboratory, train assistants, make all kinds of documents and specifications yourself, and occasionally travel to suppliers to deal with problems. This is the most comfortable part of my work experience. Then smoothly transition to an immigrant visa and go abroad.
In fact, Foxconn mainly has two problems, the problem of forced overtime, and the other problem is night shift. These two issues seem simple, but they are the core of Guo Taiming's interests.
There is no rule about compulsory overtime, but it is an unwritten rule. Under normal circumstances, it should be three shifts, but the labor cost of three shifts will be higher than that of two shifts. Therefore, my department has basically not implemented three shifts and two shifts. You can calculate the specific economic account yourself. It's not that Guo Taiming can't afford to hire workers, but that choosing Class Two is more in his interest and makes workers more tired. He can pay 1.5 times the overtime pay, but because of the low salary base, the overtime pay is not much. Once the order is reduced, it is easy to return to the normal work of Class 2. Less workers and low management cost. As for whether the workers can bear to jump off a building for a month 12 hours, it's none of Guo Taiming's business. There used to be a female reporter who didn't know that Foxconn was forced to work overtime. Guo Taiming immediately became angry from embarrassment and filed a lawsuit against the female reporter for 30 million yuan, which scared the female reporter silly. The reason why he is angry is self-evident. In fact, Guo Taiming earns the highest profit from the same factory equipment, otherwise he is the only one who has done the most in so many foundries.
There is also the problem of night shift. Think about it. When all employees of Epson/KLOC-0: 00 leave work and Foxconn is still producing, which creates more surplus value? The problem of night shift is mainly physical and psychological. 12 hour night shift, your body is less nourished by the sun. I was very tired at that time, and my mind was really dark. Is pessimistic, can't see their future. Everyone else seems happier than me. I can't stand the night shift, but I find some people are fine and don't have headaches.
I don't know if the jumper is affected by these two reasons. But I really know that overtime and night shift are inevitable on Foxconn's production line, because his production line must be fully open 24 hours a day to maximize profits. There is no reason why any employee always works the day shift while others only work the night shift. It is customary to work in shifts.
As for why employees have to endure forced overtime, I found out from my own reasons: I was a rookie at that time, just entering social work, and the inertia of obedience was still there. The production task is there, and the supervisor is working overtime. If I don't work overtime, I won't be allowed, which is morally unreasonable. Because everyone works overtime, as if I would cause inconvenience to others. Just out of the people, personal consciousness has not yet risen, and there is still no clear understanding of the employment relationship of capitalists. Besides, I just arrived in Shenzhen, a stranger, and I need a place to live and get familiar with the environment. So I wronged myself until I could not bear to leave. Although thousands of people queue up to join Foxconn every day, I estimate that at least 5 million people leave Foxconn. I just went to Fuding, and my work number has been ranked at 25 thousand. In fact, there are only more than two thousand people in the factory, not more than five years. Only two of the same batch of 20 college students are left after one year, and only 1 student after two years. But some people leave and go back. Where did college students work 12 years and never left? I believe this may be a genetic problem. But Foxconn actually recruits mostly secondary school students and vocational high school students who have just graduated from the mainland. They will be brought here as soon as they graduate. For the above reasons, they are easy to manage and diligent! I graduated from this university, and it took me some time to cultivate the sense of resistance.
Don't jump off a building if you can't stand it. Do something else. Don't listen to Guo Taiming's bluff. What are the emotional problems? Many men and women with emotional problems in Shenzhen have jumped off buildings. Don't listen to those shameless experts: the suicide level is lower than the national level! Those experts are all heavily hired! Next time you send money like this, just step aside. Guo taiming is superstitious about feng shui. It is said that Foxconn's headquarters is located in this strange place of Longhua Pinus tabulaeformis, which is the result of feng shui master's inspection! ! So are those reporters. When they were undercover, they didn't really work the night shift on the production line for a month, and then they will understand by watching their psychological changes. If you don't understand, will you go crazy after working for 3 months to see that you are no longer young?