Chinese iPhone worker gets to keep her job

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Paul Boutin

08/27/08 02:20PM

Filed to: Great Moments In Pr

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A Chinese worker at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China is "definitely not fired," a factory spokesperson told the newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao. The smiling young lady's photos were found on a newly unboxed iPhone by a British buyer who posted them to MacRumors.

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giddieup Paul Boutin 08/27/08 03:05PM

its communists..you either smile at the camera or at the ak-47s... you get to pick which.

sample032 giddieup 08/27/08 03:22PM

@giddieup: Sounds more like a cross between Jackson West and Jordan Golson.

Passerby Paul Boutin 08/27/08 05:02PM

Someone suggested on that forum thread this would make a good PR commercial. Or maybe a caption contest :)

djc2k Paul Boutin 08/28/08 01:56PM

LOL... ak47? guess he's never been to China (where anything goes)

but I'm not sure about the "definitely not fired" part.

sample032 Paul Boutin 08/27/08 02:42PM

I've never seen that much smiling from any of the engineers I know. Maybe Chinese manufacturing isn't so bad, after all.