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iPhone Factory Worker Girl Still Has Her Job

Tuesday August 26, 2008 3:41 am PDT by Arnold Kim
China.org.cn reports on the photos posted to our forum last week of a Foxconn factory worker. Forum user markm49uk had found the photos on his brand new iPhone.

This led to speculation on the identity and the fate of the factory worker's job. Fortunately, it's been confirmed that the employee was not fired based on comments from a Foxconn representative:

"She is definitely not fired," an unidentified representative from Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, southern China, told the newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao.

The representative did confirm that she was an employee at the Shenzhen factory and that it was likely that the test photos were left on the iPhone's memory "accidentally".
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KindredMAC
Posted: 45 months ago

"She is definitely not fired, we just killed her and her family" :p


That was my first thought when reading the quote in the article....

Too bad, what a shame.... She was really cute too.
:)
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Chairman Meow
Posted: 45 months ago
Thats brilliant! I think it would be great for every Chinese worker who makes your iPhones to take a snap of herself or her factory friends. Build bridges, make connections, a hello from a person you would never otherwise meet. Globalisation in practise.
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dieburnbot
Posted: 45 months ago
it was likely that the test photos were left on the iPhone's member "accidentally".

on the iPhone's member eh?
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matthewlesh
Posted: 45 months ago
Lol.. well it would be a little harsh to fire her...

it was likely that the test photos were left on the iPhone's member "accidentally".

on the iPhone's member eh?


I think it's suppose to say "memory"...? Typo?
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nkooiker
Posted: 45 months ago
"She is definitely not fired, we just killed her and her family" :p
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Demon
Posted: 45 months ago
Macrumors is better than this...

i don't even understand why you would bother posting such news. why would that girl be fired? the guy who posted the photos to the world should be fired. things like that should be left private and dealt with via Apple and Foxconn. NOT posted for the world to see... if that girl really did get fired, it would be entirely due to the idiot who posted her photo on the world wide web.

Give it a break!
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striatic
Posted: 45 months ago
hooray!

i wonder if taking the photos wasn't actually part of some QA process, to test the camera.

perhaps the phones are supposed to be reset after QA, but this one wasn't for some reason.
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rockinrocker
Posted: 45 months ago

the guy who posted the photos to the world should be fired.


you mean the guy who's phone the pictures were on? :confused:
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g4cubed
Posted: 45 months ago
At least she's cute.
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illitrate23
Posted: 45 months ago
i still think this should become standard practise.
i'm quite gutted that neither of my iPhone's came with a picture of the factory and it's workers on it - it'd be a cool gimmick: one iPhone in every million has the QA test pics left on it - are you the lucky one? if so, claim your free iTunes download at apple.com... etc etc
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