{"id":15022,"date":"2017-04-11T21:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?post_type=cool-stuff-found&#038;p=15022"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:38:36","slug":"ny-grad-student-goes-undercover-pegatron-iphone-factory","status":"publish","type":"cool-stuff-found","link":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/ny-grad-student-goes-undercover-pegatron-iphone-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Grad Student Goes Undercover at Pegatron iPhone Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every wonder what it&#8217;s really like to make iPhones in a Chinese factory? New York University student\u00a0Dejian Zeng found out by working in one for 6 weeks for a summer project.\u00a0<em>BusinessInsider<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/qa-with-an-iphone-factory-worker-at-pegatron-changshuo-in-shanghai-2017-4\/\">interviewed<\/a> him about the experience, where he\u00a0discussed the daily life of a worker. He shared a dorm with 7 people, worked 12 hour shifts, did repetitive tasks, and got paid more than the minimum wage. \u00abI mean, it&#8217;s simple,\u00bb he said, \u00abbut that&#8217;s the work that you do. Over, over, over again. For whole days.\u00bb He also described being on an assembly line ramping up a new product, an experience that was punctuated by hours of boredom waiting for the next unit to work on. It&#8217;s an excellent read\u2014I&#8217;m writing it up as a Cool Stuff Found, rather than a full article, because I want to encourage everyone to read it. Plus, these kinds of manufacturing jobs are not going to come back to the U.S., at least not for humans to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[528],"class_list":["post-15022","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-manufacturing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NY Grad Student Goes Undercover at Pegatron iPhone Factory - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every wonder what it&#039;s like to make iPhones in a Chinese factory? 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