SKIRMISHER

The other day, Foxconn sued Chinese reporters Wang You and Weng Bao for USD 3.77 million. Foxconn is the famous Chinese manufacturer of Apple’s iPod that became pretty much-admired and well-loved after a report came out showing how the company’s dormitories were such havens for good living — that is, if you’re a stinking fart of a rodent.

On Xinhua:

Apple iPod manufacturer Foxconn based in Shenzehn sued the two journalists for 30 million RMB yuan (3.77 million U.S dollars) for allegedly damaging “its reputation” by the stories on the workers’ “substandard working conditions and low pay.”

In their stories, Wang and Weng wrote that most employees in Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory “worked more than 12 hours a day and earned only about 1,000 RMB yuan (some 43 dollars) a month.”

The workers, their stories described, “also had to stand for long hours at their jobs and were not allowed to talk to others.”

But today, after millions of blogs, online forums and other very serious, unsmiling people responded by threatening to finally stop loving the iPod, Foxconn now says it was just kidding, and will be happy to take at least 12 cents (yes, cents) from the law suit, which it will happily donate to charity — if said charity would also be happy to receive said 12 cents and would not take offense for being treated like The Willing Bitch.

This company’s such a fine specimen of humanity it’s making my knees rubber. Expect a heart-rending Foxconn-inspired soap opera one of these days, which I promise to watch with my grandmother, Cheetos and all.

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