An article published on Times Business goes into further detail, suggesting that due to fears about company image, clients including Nintendo, Apple, Sony, Hewlett Packard, and Dell are all running investigations in parallel, with Nintendos investigation said to have started this year. There have been ten suicides over the last few months at Foxconns largest factory, with workers there under severe conditions.
Nintendo has special guidelines in place for outsourced production, and will be conducting a special survey of the factory to establish whether the factory still meets requirements.
I can't imagine what they must be going through... I mean if I heard Ted across the way committed suicide that's hardly the kinda thing I'd wanna join him on...
One chapter, for example, deals with the very strange epidemic of teenage suicide in the South Pacific islands of Micronesia. In the 1970's and 1980's, Micronesia had teen suicide rates ten times higher than anywhere else in the world. Teenagers were literally being infected with the suicide bug, and one after another they were killing themselves in exactly the same way under exactly the same circumstances. We like to use words like contagiousness and infectiousness just to apply to the medical realm. But I assure you that after you read about what happened in Micronesia you'll be convinced that behavior can be transmitted from one person to another as easily as the flu or the measles can. In fact, I don't think you have to go to Micronesia to see this pattern in action. Isn't this the explanation for the current epidemic of teen smoking in this country? And what about the rash of mass shootings we're facing at the moment--from Columbine through the Atlanta stockbroker through the neo-Nazi in Los Angeles?
I can't imagine what they must be going through... I mean if I heard Ted across the way committed suicide that's hardly the kinda thing I'd wanna join him on...
I remember being a youth worker/camp counselor years ago and one of my buddies on staff committed suicide.**** ME! The COUNSELOR committed suicide? God what had the kids been telling him?
