Nintento responsible for suicide attempts?

Nintento investigates suicides by Wii-factory..

Nintendo wants to research the working conditions by Foxconn, Foxconn is a factory where the welknown Wii-consoles are made. The reason for this is that recent months a strikingly large number of employees of the Chinese company has made suicide attempts.

The last months sixteen employees jumped off the roof from the Foxconn buildings in an attemp to end their lives. The motive for this would be the miserable working conditions that is against the human rights of working employees. Foxconn is the largest factory of electronics in the world, and not only Nintendo starts an independent investigation to the working condition inside the company. Wednesday the 26th of may also Apple, Hewlett-Packard en Dell announced that they will start an investigation in the company (Apple, Hewlet-Packard and Dell also lets a couple of their products produce in the Foxconn fabric). the wellknown playstation 3 and Microsofts' Xbox360 are produced in Foxconn.

Compensation

Foxconn pays the families of the died employees compensation. According to the Telegraph, this compensation involves an amount equal to ten year incomes. The high amount of compensation would be a reason for depressed workers to commit suicide. Recently, the company wanted all employees to sign a letter in which they promise that they would never hurt themselves. When an employee commits suicide then, Foxconn does not have to pay the amount of compensation. However, when the director of Foxconn knew that the media became known of these facts he didn't start handing out the letters.

It is not the first time Foxconn is in the news because of negative reasons. There was an earlier discussion about the bad working conditions, and earlier this month it was confirmed that twenty guards beated two employees in the month august.

Measures

Foxconn has taken several steps to prevent against more suicides. the company hired psychiatrists and hung nets to catch people who jump off the building. Foxconn also increases the salary of employees with 20%. According to a Foxconn representative they were already planning to increase loans and it is not a reaction to the recent suicide attempts.

A separated division for the best spanish football clubs?

Media and money seems to be responsible for a split in the highest football division in Spain. The reason is the partition of television incomes.

The rich and leading clubs as for instance FC Barcelona and Real Madrid want a seperation of the Primera Division as soon as possible. There are welknown examples of this kind of separations for example the Italian A Serieus or the Enligsh Premier League. The Spanish Professional league the LFP announced two weeks ago that they made an agreement about that they would start discussing the opportunities about how this new, much better and more interesting topcompetition can be achieved.

The first time that the work group will meet is in June... But how will they decide?



The smaller and poorer clubs in both the first and second division fear the worst. They just asked the Spanish government for negotiations on the collective decesion on broadcasting of football matches.

Contradictionary to the most other European competitions, in Spain the clubs make deals with televesion companies theirselve. FC Barcelona and Real Madrid each reach around 150 million euros which is half of the available television budget in the market. Poor and small clubs have to be content with the crumbs.

Cheating on your wife?

Oh oh... have you ever cheated on your wife?

tried to get away with your favourite imaginary excuse? Imagine a situation in which your wife wants you to come with her to one of her friends' parties. Have you ever said that you weren't feeling very well and felt a little bit sick?

The men in the video below did, meanwhile his wife went to the party the men spends his evening drinking in a bar. But, his wife seemed to catch this!

How would you get away with this?

The men in the video seems to have a proper solution, he uses two different kinds of media; a telephone and a television. Although, is it the television that safes him?

Check how this guy 'fakes' some kind of media in the video below.

Looking for a job? Be careful with Hyves!

With the big boom of social networks sites, for instance Hyves, LinkedLn and Facebook it is getting more and more easy to find information about somebody.

Now.. I hear you thinking.. 'what's new about that?... I already knew this'.

However,

Be very careful with your Hyves page, photo's and 'krabbels' that your friends or other relatives publish on your Hyves page. It can cause bad luck in your sollicitation process. Recruiters say that they do not use Hyves-profiles of candidates in order to select people who are applying for a job, however the truth is different.

A master student Communication at the University of Twente researched which information from Hyves was used by recruiters to get an impression of their candidates. The student found that recruiters lied about what they said about the information they use.

The information posted on Hyves, for instance photo's or 'krabbels' by friends or other relatives seem to play an important role in the first selection phase of candidates that are applying for a job. the student found the strongest effect when candidates try to apply for a representative function.

So do not only try to be careful with posting messages and photo's yourself, but you should really make sure that 'strangers' have no access to one of your personal social network pages.