According to WantChinaTimes, Terry Gou, the head of Hon Hai (Foxconn), the largest contract manufacturer in the world, had this to say at a recent meeting with his senior managers:
To manage one million animals gives me a headache,” said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.
As WantChinaTimes put it, Gou “could have chosen his words more carefully.” But Gou had indeed invited the zoo director to speak to Hon Hai’s top managers in the hope that the zoo-keeper’s advice would help them do their jobs better:
As Chin lectured on the stage, sharing his experience with the audience on how to manage different animals according to their individual temperaments, Gou listened carefully and asked Chin to put himself in his place as the chairman of Hon Hai, to the amusement of the 12 general managers of the group present.
So after the past several years of employees complaints, suicides and the latest round of threatened mass suicide, we now see there is more to this than meets the eye. With this kind of attitude toward employees you can imagine they get treated like the animals this CEO believes them to be.
Sadly when most people think of foxconn, Apple comes to mind. But let me say this, Apple is just a small part of what this company assembles or manufacturers. So people do your research and if you buy a product that has even one part made by foxconn, contact the company and let them know your opinion on there choice of assembly or manufacturing plants. By buying products assembled or manufactured by foxconn, we are in turn supporting this company and its horrid behavior towards human beings.
Note: Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn
