Foxconn claims employee who committed suicide had history of misplacing prototypes, does nothing for its case
By Laura June 
posted July 27th 2009 12:26PM
posted July 27th 2009 12:26PM
This is one story that only gets more bizarre with each passing day. The 25-year-old Foxconn employee who committed suicide this month, apparently after one of the iPhone prototypes he was responsible for went missing, is now reported to have misplaced other prototypes previous to this instance. According to Foxconn (who spoke with the New York Times), his employer and the company charged with manufacturing all of Apple's handsets, Sun Danyong had had products go missing "several times," but that he had gotten them back. Foxconn itself is the subject of some mystery in all this, after a security officer connected to the company was suspended and turned over to the Chinese government -- apparently in connection with the case. Sun Danyong was reportedly interrogated and possibly beaten after the prototype went missing, though Foxconn and those connected with the company have denied this. Foxconn has confirmed thatSun Danyong's family was paid roughly $44,000 and given an Apple laptop as compensation for his death.
stay classy foxconn
If you F""K with APPLE, they'll lock you in a room and throw away the room !
Yes, throw away the room...
*Sigh*
Most would throw away the key...but at Apple...they think different(ly).
is it me or does foxconn sounds like a new type of transformers? it will force every single decepticon to commit suicide
The new iphones are to die for apparently, according to Sun Danyong.
I guess none of you saw "The Manhattan Project"?
This is nothing compared to the human sacrifices Apple needs to make in order for the old gods whose magic makes their products work stay satiated.
Yeah, but did he have a history of suicide?
@ oneLife
Now he does
Does anyone think that maybe he was leaking these prototypes to Chinese companies? How else would you constantly lose prototypes then "find" them later? Maybe the entire shebang was coming down and that's why he killed himself?
Speculate whoever....Chinese companies.....Chinese mob....whatever.
Sounds more like he was the inside guy who finally got caught, probably through no fault of his own.
Shit sucks.
My question is: why the hell did Foxconn keep this employee if he was so friggin unreliable?
For shits and giggles of course!
Good question.
OR why would Foxconn have him handle iPhone prototype when he "had history of misplacing prototypes"?
Every company everywhere has crummy employees that they keep around for no apparent reason.
they had to come up with some sort of bs for torturing the guy until he committed suicide.
Lets not buy into their newly found excuses for why this guy was expendable.
Because Chinese government made it tough for legitimate company to get rid of employees
Here's another question: Why is Al Gore on the Apple Board of Directors?
They were waiting to get rid of him...
FOR GOOD D=
It's a very silly statement... If the guy have previous "problems" don't continue working with him. Foxconn error IMHO.
pix & specs on the 4th gen iPhone? c'mon, someone has to have it, dead or alive!
Your right,
It sucks that that guy killed himself, but I wanna know some specs pronto.
Shallow much? Its just a lump of plastic.
@matt: to be fair, it's got some metal and plastic too... and 'lectolytes.
More lytes than your other phone has room for!
@khav: The new iPhone runs so fast that people think it's a KENYAN!
now thats the ultimate fanboy he gave his own life for an iphone
Paul A. older brother?
what?
Lmfao!!! Good one...
Moral of the story, dont work for such a evil sounding company!
lol
I'd take their statement with a fistful of bitter, bitter salt.
Please excuse the pedantry but where does one find bitter salt?
Magnesium sulfate
clarkcox3: :)
The man commits suicide and they give his wife a macbook? Insult to injury.
I hope she loses it.
I see what you did there.
I wonder if it is a prototype macbook....
does it have ashes inside?
at least she can write about it.
Wow a laptop! Here's that phone back!
"My husband committed suicide and all I got was this stupid laptop...and $44,000"
I probably wasn't even a Mac. Probably an Chinese KIRF Appel laptop
Classic story of megacorporations killing employees and then claiming "they had a history of problems" without ever justifying why they kept them working there in the first place.
Megacorporation meets employee.
Employee loses many prototypes.
Megacorporation retains employee.
Employee loses secret prototype.
Megacorporation kills employee.
It's the oldest story in the book.
this is def movie material
Nancy Drew and the Foxconn Outfoxing