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more about #suicide more comments → OCEntertainment: Dangit...ugh. For the love of crap, AT&T. This one thing, I just wanted this one thing from you: to laugh at an amusing tech support story concerning ... more » FriarNurgle: Darlene? more » zeeboid: someone is gunna get their ass fired for that. more » green or blue: I knew text support people had souls, I knew it all along. more » Kaiser-Machead: I don't know about you, but if support staff can make me laugh that earns mondo points on the satisfaction meter. more » macpatrik: I thinks it going to be interesting to see Kristie Alley eat a bridge. more » ColonelGentleman: So if you fall off a bridge in China, do you always land butter side down? more » Kaiser-Machead: I propose an alternate solution. Offer 3 million yuan to whoever can stand on the railing and jump off (and survive), and broadcast it on television. more » MadCrazy: Fuck CHINA. Lets bomb em, before its too late to do so ; ) more » Software_Goddess: People will be bringing their muffins here for free butterings. more » nutbastard: "we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here." what a surprise that those with nothing left to live for didn't heed... more » electronymous: Maybe they could find out why so many people in Guangzhou want to kill themselves? Just a thought. more » MyPetFly: Olive oil would have been a much healthier choice. more » OMG! Ponies!: This gives me an idea... I need volunteers to help me coat the Brooklyn Bridge with bacon grease. I can only pay you in bacon. You have to provide ... more » philibuster: They have butter in China? Who knew? more » -
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AT&T's Tech Support People Are Just as Happy as Their Customers (Updated)
It's just plausible enough to be real, and just real enough to be crushingly depressing. UPDATE: It's fake! But the actual transcript is sort of funny too: More » -
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Butter Smeared On Giant Bridge To Prevent Suicides and Traffic Jams
Butter. It's tasty and it just happens to be an ideal lubricant for suicide hotspots like giant steel bridges. More » -
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Foxconn Increases Compensation For iPhone Suicide Employee's Family
Foxconn just increased the compensation for their worker that killed himself as a result of possible beatings and interrogations over a lost iPhone. More » -
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Foxconn Worker Had 16 iPhone Prototypes, Girlfriend Given MacBook
The NYT has more on the death of Sun Danyong, the Foxconn worker who apparently committed suicide after an iPhone prototype went missing. As compensation, his family has been paid about $44,000, and his girlfriend received an Apple laptop.
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iPhone Leak Suicide: Where Is the Lost Gen iPhone Prototype?
The death of the guardian of Foxconn's iPhone prototype is a tragedy. But deep down, gadgethounds are wondering where the phone is now. So far, none of us know where, so we're left to our imaginations. More » -
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Foxconn iPhone Worker Sun Danyong's Final Messages
Chinese newspapers have been piecing together Foxconn worker Sun Danyong's final hours, and claim to have recovered his final text message to his girlfriend, sent two hours before he died. It's clear something horrible was happening to him: More » -
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Chinese Paper Reports iPhone Worker Not Tortured, Yet Worker Implies Force Was Used
The New Yorker reports Chinese paper Southern Daily claims they've seen surveillance footage of Sun Danyong's interrogation by Foxconn, which show that he wasn't locked up or tortured. It also says that Sun told Foxconn to search his house. More » -
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Why Apple Will Probably Keep Doing Business With Foxconn After iPhone Leak Death
Whatever role iPhone builder Foxconn played in 25-year-old Sun Danyong's death after a prototype iPhone he was entrusted with went missing, they will likely not pay the highest of prices: Losing Apple's business. More » -
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Death By iPhone: Apple and China's Cultural Time Bomb
Last week, a 25-year-old communications worker died in an "apparent suicide" after losing track of a prototype iPhone built by Foxconn, his employer, for one of the most secretive companies in technology. It was only a matter of time.
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Perspective on the iPhone Suicide: Guy Died Over a F*ing PHONE
Let's step back from the iPhone leak suicide for a minute and just think about the basics of what happened. A phone was lost. A guy was tortured. A guy killed himself or something. Over a fucking phone. More » -
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Foxconn iPhone Suicide: Chinese Police Now Investigating Murder
Foxconn has suspended a security official and turned over its probe into a worker's recent alleged suicide to police, who are currently investigating the possibility of murder. This already messy story could be about to get much, much messier. More » -
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Rope Jumping: The Latest Russian Suicide Sport
Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump. More » -
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Suspect Leaves PS3 with eBay Instructions to Roommate Before Shooting Spree
Last Saturday, suspect Erik Salvador Ayala fired into the streets of Portland, Oregon. He killed two and injured seven before shooting himself in the head. But beforehand, he'd left meticulous instructions regarding his PS3's future. More »
