A controlling, draconian environment? Who ever would imagine anything connected to Steve Jobs might be portrayed in such a way? Maybe the engineering team can somehow find a way to improve it's quality because my personal experience (2 laptops, 1 iPod and 1 iPhone) suggest that it's crap. For the premium price that Apple wants, call me crazy, but I think products ought to at least be able to survive the warranty period. Crashing shortly after the warranty hardly inspires me to open my wallet to buy another.
How shocking.
Among the allegations made by workers interviewed by the NGOs – the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) – are claims that:
■ Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month.
■ Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13.
■ In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues.
