DAY 1: Recruitment – “Good Health With Citizen Identity Card”

For slipping into Apple’s Foxconn factory, the journalist has contacted the Human Resource Department that handles the recruitment and he was told that he can work in Foxconn as long as he is healthy and own a citizenship identity card. Once at the interview, he was asked to fill in a form to test current state of mentality. There were about 30 mentality questions to answer “Yes” or “No,” which even included questions like: “Have you got into a state of mental trance recently!?” After the test, he was taken to the Taiyuan Foxconn factory along with some other workers.

According to the journalist, the condition inside Foxconn’s dormitory was awful. “The first night sleeping at dormitory is a nightmare. The whole dormitory smells like garbage when I walked in. It’s a mixed of overnight garbage smell plus dirty sweat and foam smell. Outside of rooms were fully piled up with trash. Cockroaches were crawling through all the places and the bed sheets that are being distributed to new workers were full of dirt and ashes.”