TechMagnet Went there by way of an employer I use to work for in 1998. Workers there, are very serious, no joking around or clowning around at the job site. Play time was at home. I'll never forget it. The people there treated me with the utmost respect. I can't say who I worked for, contract binding until September of 2018. Let's just say,. It's a company in the USA that moved some of there manufacturing there, simply because it saved millions of dollars a year to do it there than here. Needless to say, the company that sent me there, spared no expense to make me comfortable. But there's no place like the USA.
Cool to see inside the phone factory, thank you. When I was in high school I worked at a contract manufacturer in Oregon, USA. We made Tektronix Oscilloscope modules and Biamp professional audio equipment. It was less boring because we could assemble the entire product, not an assembly line. We could also talk and joke with one another while we worked. Later I worked as an engineer for a power supply company on Taiwan. The factory there was similar looking. People were generally happy, and turnover was low. People leave as they finish school and start a "serious" career. For most people, having a job, even a lousy one, is a good thing :-)
Seems like they're working in a safe and clean environment. This all looks fine to me! Also... how is this a hidden camera if you're using a zoom function and the quality is so high? I call BS
Reasonable. Zoom could have been done after the fact electronically. It doesn't really look electronic though. it looks like there's something physically moving. As with all TH-cam videos something people don't realize is how much things can be manipulated or just flat out fake. People usually find flat out fake though.
You could still have cut those blurred scenes on editing. I think the only reason you left them is to convince your audience that you actually use a hidden camera. You are not using a hidden camera. You are just pretend so to have more views and make your video sounds more interesting. WE ARE NOT IDIOTS
Dancin Cars wow, you sound like a total douche who has no respect for those hard working people. Why would you need a lifetime warranty for your smartphone if you change it every 1 - 2 years??
actually it looks pretty good! You have not seen the tests like ICT and FT which are automatic. All we are seeing are the standard tests done by the people, some of the sealing process and just a little bit of assembly and hand soldering. The workers are disciplined and skilled. Probably I would insist on wearing the gloves but that would also subtract a little bit from their handling prowess. This factory looks good and have 17 years in this EMS industry.
I work on industrial scales here in the USA and visit all sorts of plants that make food, machines, computers, vehicles, process animals, recycle, and all sorts of other weird, extremely specific tasks. Not knowing how much these people are paid and how long their shifts are, makes what I'm about to say seem very crass, but these people want and probably need a good job. The factory looks clean and safe. By American standards, I expect that they are paid very little, but this "very little" may be one of the better paying jobs in this rural area of China. I'm glad they do the work, and it seems to be good work. I have to expect there's exploitation too at some level, but China is a command and control government...what can you expect? This video doesn't change my mind. I just wish for America's sake we could have a plant here, so we could make it. I don't think we could afford the labor, and still make profit.
I mean personally i do the same thing as them in the video for a living in canada. Im paid near mimimum salary that is 11 $ / h. What i get from this video is they got all these fancy equipement that we don't have. The thing that shock me the most is those fancy fume vacumm for soldering ... i wich i ad that 10 years ago now i got probably 4 cancer by now. Maybe its time to get a better job. I also work in a metal shop that produce all the wallmart equipement like shelves and this was a complete mess of a shop. Probably just got one more cancer just talking about it.
I would guess that all the soldering being done in this factory is being done with lead-free solder in order to be ROHS compliant. Even if this company is manufacturing phones where many are being sold just in china, many resellers pick up these inexpensive phones and rebadge them so it is probably cheaper to comply with world standards and I would also venture to guess that the lead free solder is actually cheaper to buy in china due to economy of scale anyway. I would be more concerned with all of the other things you would find in the soldering fumes due to whatever flux is being used.
kuhrd Silver is rarely cheaper than lead, even if lead works better. Ironically, I've worked in a solder plant in Princeton, IA, and they export a huge amount of solder to China.
It seems my phone is particular one made in day that every of those guys actually gave a fuck what kind of product they push out, cause it havent broken yet.. though engineer was lazy as fuck, so software of hard ware is sometimes jamming/lagging behind.. Well this was not case with my old nokia.. but cant get one of those beasts these days that would confirm my need of having good camera and notebook.
Yes such a beautiful place to be earning 318 USD a *year* working 100 Hrs of overtime a month. One worker reported that she ‘slept about two or three hours a night’ during a three month rush prior to the release of the Samsung Galaxy tablet. She also claimed she had ‘to stop breastfeeding her three-month-old infant to keep up with schedule.’
You talk shit man. These jobs are fairly high status. I have worked both with and in China for well over 20 years and it have changed significantly. If you are selling shoes on the market, yeh then you maybe earn 300-400USD per year. Here it's around 1500-2000USD a year for the factory workers and up. Engineers earn 6000-8000USD and sales get commission. Sometimes a good sales man/girl can earn 10-15000 per year. These jobs are popular. You have to consider, living conditions in China is equally cheaper. And, since most of these workers come from all over China, they stay in workers housing, provided by the factory, next to the factory so instead of spending a lot of money of rent and so on, they send the money home to their families and parents. China is not USA so you can't always compare everything to how it is in USA.
Nothing wrong with this. They work 8 hours per day and get like 5000yuan per month which is enough to live in Shenzhen because the factory offer accommodation and meals.
Danny Boy! Democracy can offer decent jobs to everybody? Working in factory is not supposed to be like this when you don't have automatic production line ? Even iPhone is assembled this way, come on! Are you sure you understand what the communism is? Do you expect China to be better than USA when China only has developed its economy stably for 39 years? Be pragmatic please, my friend!
I'm pretty confident, that you wouldn't support communism, if you actually lived long enough in a country, that was going towards communism. I did. For 17 years. Hell on earth... I suppose you were raised in a democratic country with human rights granted for everyone. Enjoy your freedom and stop making a fool out of yourself... Just because your mom and dad were born in CCCP doesn't mean you know anything about communism... And that you don't like Americans? Like all of them? Why? That tells a lot about you. Generalization is stupid. Always...
Lots of manual steps. This didn't surprise me, but to see all those people lined up each doing one minute step before sending it to the next person was really a surprise. I wonder how many of each type of phone they produce a day this way. How many phones have to be scrapped for non-conformity. The Chinese have a lot to be proud of. Just to bad we (the USA and China) aren't stronger allies.
they are doing "one minute step"(as you say), because most employees will quit the job, and so, it's much more easier to get someone productive quickly on a small job than on a more complex one, pay less, have more hands and easily replaceable
+broderp They pay the citizens of this communist country as little as possible money to manually perform tasks so that they won't have to buy robots and pay IT technicians and robotic mechanics to repair and maintain the robots. It does make sense to have those people because unlike robots, in a communistic country they can pay them whatever minuscule amount of money they feel like. This is not possible in countries that have human rights so, for that reason, manufacturing is dominated by Asia. Not sure why anyone would be proud of that though.
I love monotonous work. I am also a disabled vet with a monthly pension. A Cisco tech too! I love travel and would have no problem working in such conditions!!!!
+geekchaser Oh look, a fancy college graduate that makes well over these people saying that they would love to do manual labor all day to only get paid in peanuts... Please, you probably haven't worked a labor job a day in your life.
it shows transparency to NOT edit it out. you still hear the sound and talking but not the top secret technology or techniques. it's like saying they left all of the footage they could and left out nothing or as little as possible
I dont understand why there is so many dislikes, this is a regulated factory with reasonably happy environment for the workers, how else do you fucking expect phones to be produced?
Maybe people will have more respect for their phone now that they see how much work goes into it. So before you deside on throwing ur phone at the wall out of anger, remeber the labor it took to make it.
Jhon Krasnovskiy Don't know about their local experience. My experience is they rarely break down and when they do they are really easily fixable. No need for repair shop. They are darn horrible to drive though. Now days I own Renault Megane and this thing while comfortable to drive... repair myself, never.
i thought everything is made by robots. My whole life was a lie... I think robots would make better phones. I mean they would do everything exactly the same... They won't change their positions and they would put every phone in the same place. So if first phone is alright then second is alright. plus they would make more phones because robots could work at night time.
Currently robots and maintenance for many jobs is more expensive than human labour in a lot of countries. However if there is a bigger push to raise the minimum wage factory workers can be paid, then it may be that it is then cheaper to buy and maintain robots to do the work instead.
I've worked at a few factories in the UK, this looks better than those were. I've had to stand at a conveyor for 8 hours putting air fresheners into boxes. Yer it was a crap job but I did not see the world coming to film me in the UK. I've also done 12 hour a day shifts because it's the only work I can get, again in the UK. Seems to be only the middle class socialists that like to say it's bad in other countries but not in theirs.
TruthSeeker i feel you, I work an office job for a financial company as an analyst. You wouldn't believe the crappy coffee in our break room. Our chair lack lumbar support too!! Only reason I am putt up with this crap is the pay, health benefits, 401k plan, holiday pay, 2 month of vacation and the fact no one notices when I don't actually do any work.
Thanks for the video. It´s interesting to see a chinese smartphone manufaturer from the inside for once and it´s nice to see, that the conditions at elephone are not as bad as with other chinese companies.
I've been to a bunch myself over the years. For the most part, all of the things most people think about these places are complete myths. Like how they think they're children. They have 1.6 billion people, no shortage of able bodied adults lol. You won't find any children making your iphone or whatever else. Your hat, maybe, but also unlikely.
Sgtqman19 ok, I also happened to do the math, if their salary is 3,000 Yuan (1 Yuan is equal to $.15 USD) a month, then they live ether on the street, or in a very bad area just to survive because a decent or nice apartment (Assuming they have a family and need more than one bedroom) is 3,200 Yuan (or around $500) not to mention food, transportation, and sanitary needs.
We still started up a own company as technical office for cnc-machines and components, 3D-printers, laser, development, sourcefinder and manifacture-interchange.
Ich entwickle und produziere alles nach österreichischen Richtlinien und versuche auch hier unsere Qualitätsanforderungen umzusetzen. Ist zwar nicht immer leicht aber auch nicht unmöglich. =)
Well, knowing how many of those workers were probably overworked and thinking they would rather die then make phones. I'd say it was very informative and un biased as it should be. Thank you for the footage.
The only "HIDDEN" aspect of this video was the blurred out or censored portions that we couldn't see. It looks like the Chinese Factory supervisors new that you had a camera. Plus they told you not to show certain things and well you didn't sooooooo,..... NOT a hidden camera in a chinese factory.
the thing is they are running a sweatshop operation where they are paid minimum wage or even less than that... and China is the place where manpower is cheap so its kinda like quantity over quality
I come from a country where people use Chinese smartphones such as the Elephone, Mi 7 Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE I use to had one and I spotted the hidden camera in my Huawei.
I dont understand the dramatic music... I mean, I've worked in the auto industry (for a big parts manufacturer) and it was much worse. Dangerous machines, lots of noise, lots of heat, 8h standig up with a 15 min break in the middle, very hard and fast work, always sweaty and dirty, chemicals and I had to wear a mask in a very hot envorinment, so I couldm't even have a quick talk with someone to let loose fo 2 min. Oh, and the bosses were bastards. I saw people crying from the pressure. In those days I would like a job like this! This actually looks very well organized sane and safe.
Actually it's really good looking modern factory :) And everybody who was working in a factory or warehouse knows, that when there are coming visitors or bosses, you are playing how strong and hard you are working, but in reality its kinda comfortable... Anyway, there are much more worse companies HERE in Europe then this one :)
Jake Diaz nothing wrong? they've showed you something wrong from the very first seconds. imagine that person doing those sound tests being you... repeating the tests for 12 hours day and day... plus there's also a continuous background noise.
what you was think how will be like western media displays? I was believe in China eat rocks but when look yesterday they have average salary 10 times more than in my country in eu
Nothing wrong with this....I WOULD certainly work there!! Many people work instead machines and they can support they families unlike in my country!! It is clean and It's not risky job!
I see nothing wrong. Soldering stations are equiped with fume extractors, that means the company actually cares their workers don´t get lung cancer in the future. People are seated and they only perform short tasks each. Yes, repetitive but its a pattern to avoid mistakes and enhance production. 12 hours shifts and one day off is what you get for not going to college. You make a living, thats it.
I don't think you understand what it's like in China, there are so little jobs because of the overpopulation that people who are extremely educated can hardly find one.
I had never heard of Elephone before. And when I found out about them, I thought they were a knockoff company... Yet, I tried them out. They really fucked up the antennas in my phone and it also has a software glitch that annoyed the shit out of me. The charger dies in the first 3 months. Other than that, good phone. I still have it.
It's called clickbait. I worked at electronics plants like this, there is literally nothing special on this video that's not industry standard, offices, typical production lines, dust-free clean rooms for screen assembly, etc . The blurring is probably for effect, if I had to guess. (The video guy at the office was using a pirated copy of AfterEffects, meh, big deal). The thing is, they are not stupid. As a visitor, they will never take you anywhere near sensitive stuff (R&D, engineering, product testing, NPI, etc), so you can use your camera all you want, you literally can't film anything hidden or secret, even if you wanted to. So much for the "hidden camera" and big reveal...
I don't see a problem here. They aren't by any means doing intensive labour, they're doing simple tasks. Each person is doing something different which in a country with a huge population problem deals with unemployability and gets the phones made faster and more efficiently as eventually it'll just be muscle memory and they wont really need to think too hard about what they're doing. When compared to other jobs in china such as chinese farmers they have it so easy, it doesn't take much effort to put two pieces together and move it on. I've also heard that their pay is decent for china.
I agree with OP but what im concerned with is the relative pay and the workhours. BUT because of the greed of the consumer, these conditions really have to exist in order to sell phones as cheaply as possible. Dont just hate on corporations, hate on consumers too!
Zipp4Everyone Or you can recognize that nobody involved is being forced, and the only reason they're doing it is because they're better off for it. Importantly, the more money you spend on your phone, the less you have to spend on clothing or books or sneakers or any one of a thousand other things that *other* poor people make. Does it make sense to pay one group more at the expense of the others? There are tradeoffs involved that are impossible to get around.
Miners,oil workers,transportation workers,ship builders/breakers,construction workers,utility workers,fisheries,and prison workers are laughing at this. The dramatic music only makes it even funnier.
Ugh such a wasted opportunity in terms of camerawork. You have the chances to film in a chinese smartphone factory and the best you can do is holding your camera like a dad holding a sony handycam
I stayed at Foxconn for a year and before other electronics factories. At Foxconn, people are hiring every day because there may be more people applying to leave that day than those who recruit, and those who come in want to leave for a month, but the factory will pressure you to pay at least half a month's salary, submit to leave, and it will take a month to leave, if you go straight to at least half a month's salary. I can tell you that the most manual thing is iPhone, because the parts in iPhone are more precise and more, and the machine can't do it. The error of the machine is too large, the strength is not good to control, and will destroy the parts, the good rate is too low. Machines can only be used to process individual parts or large assemblies, such as cars. This is completely different from the cnc machine tool. Cnc needs special materials, his hardness and cutting tools are calculated, and the mobile phone assembly is completely different.
I worked in 3 manufactures in the U.S! our manufactures are the worst! At least in China they know how to manufacture! In America, manufacture managers suck!!! Big time! Even Chinese workers work better than us! Clean, organized and efficient! Of course they will never teach us how to do manufacturing! I swear that Chinese products are in much more better quality than American ones! I can clearly see it! America is only good at big machinery manufacturing! Like loaders etc... And now, we want to take the American brand manufactures back to our country! We're gonna have cheap quality products and astronomical prices instead!
Matthew Ghorbani they might have the manufacturing down to a science but they are just like corporate America, pay the workers SHIT and the company and its top dogs are the winners.
from the rest of you who are saying that looks the same as where you work in the Free World try to make it a dollar fifty an hour working 12 hour days 6 days a week
+Cole Train Still going strong? I got a Blu Life One X for like $150 a year ago. Dual international sim, 1080p display, 4g, 16/8mp cameras, etc. Damn good phone, I just wish it was water proof. :/ Thought about getting a phone through a carrier but didn't want to get sucked into a plan or having a phone that wasn't actually mine. So I bought my own with an extended warranty and got my own carrier too. Only $40 a month now for unlimited talk, text and 2 GB data. I use 1.5 GB at most as it is, so that's no problem for me. Way better than $150+ a month for a stupid ass Verizon phone.
We did a video on cheap chinese smartphones: go and check it out
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TechMagnet Went there by way of an employer I use to work for in 1998.
Workers there, are very serious, no joking around or clowning around at the job site.
Play time was at home.
I'll never forget it.
The people there treated me with the utmost respect. I can't say who I worked for, contract binding until September of 2018.
Let's just say,. It's a company in the USA that moved some of there manufacturing there, simply because it saved millions of dollars a year to do it there than here.
Needless to say, the company that sent me there, spared no expense to make me comfortable.
But there's no place like the USA.
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gotta have respect for those people.
NARKISDUDE why explain ?.
cause they work long hours and get low pay
Danny secret they're not in the mindset of entitlement, and have high work ethics, perhaps too high.
NARKISDUDE high work ethic?, when some make billions and the assemblers gets peanuts , it's just modern day slave labour...
hill billy hey, i didn't say they chose their mindset. i completely agree with you.
Cool to see inside the phone factory, thank you. When I was in high school I worked at a contract manufacturer in Oregon, USA. We made Tektronix Oscilloscope modules and Biamp professional audio equipment. It was less boring because we could assemble the entire product, not an assembly line. We could also talk and joke with one another while we worked. Later I worked as an engineer for a power supply company on Taiwan. The factory there was similar looking. People were generally happy, and turnover was low. People leave as they finish school and start a "serious" career. For most people, having a job, even a lousy one, is a good thing :-)
Where is the hidden camera? :)) Everybody seen the camera in your hand..
impressive
2:01 : “nigga nigga summertime smile”
lmfao
LOL
I wish Chinese workers would make a lot more money I have so much love and respect for you you worked very very hard
thank you very much
That would also mean the prices for Phones and Chinese products would be much higher, you thought of that right?
china is great
@@Brunzner exactly!!! They don’t think lmao
Yes they deserve it
Looks like a well oiled machine. Question. How do you zoom in and out if the camera is hidden?
Something called video editor ;) U can zoom when u edit.
Martin Pettersson the zoom is optical, its not done by software
Clearly not a hidden camera
Especially with the camera quality that good.
its just click bait
Seems like they're working in a safe and clean environment. This all looks fine to me! Also... how is this a hidden camera if you're using a zoom function and the quality is so high? I call BS
Reasonable. Zoom could have been done after the fact electronically.
It doesn't really look electronic though. it looks like there's something physically moving.
As with all TH-cam videos something people don't realize is how much things can be manipulated or just flat out fake. People usually find flat out fake though.
Hahahahahahaha 😁
Pretty nice interesting video.. click bait title ruins it a bit
The Thumbnail tho...
Let's give him a dislike for trying to trick us!
Lol is it not exactly what it showing?
You could still have cut those blurred scenes on editing. I think the only reason you left them is to convince your audience that you actually use a hidden camera. You are not using a hidden camera. You are just pretend so to have more views and make your video sounds more interesting.
WE ARE NOT IDIOTS
dgiannas85 We Clearly Know That He Didn't Use a Hidden Camera
You assume that"we are not idiots". We're talking about the general public here...
exactly! its advertising!! ... a sales tour video for businesses to pack up and go to china for cheap!
The original video was not blurred. He was forced to take it down and re-upload a censored version. I have the original downloaded
ExaCrystal upload it
pretty solid quality control, all done by people
lol so much human error can happen with the way they tested. Hope they provide lifetime warranty
Dancin Cars wow, you sound like a total douche who has no respect for those hard working people.
Why would you need a lifetime warranty for your smartphone if you change it every 1 - 2 years??
Pan Kartofel some of u have our phones for like 4 years or more
criticising obvious flaw in workers' works = total unappreciative douche
wow I've _never_ seen that on the internet
actually it looks pretty good!
You have not seen the tests like ICT and FT which are automatic.
All we are seeing are the standard tests done by the people, some of the sealing process and just a little bit of assembly and hand soldering.
The workers are disciplined and skilled. Probably I would insist on wearing the gloves but that would also subtract a little bit from their handling prowess.
This factory looks good and have 17 years in this EMS industry.
I work on industrial scales here in the USA and visit all sorts of plants that make food, machines, computers, vehicles, process animals, recycle, and all sorts of other weird, extremely specific tasks. Not knowing how much these people are paid and how long their shifts are, makes what I'm about to say seem very crass, but these people want and probably need a good job. The factory looks clean and safe. By American standards, I expect that they are paid very little, but this "very little" may be one of the better paying jobs in this rural area of China. I'm glad they do the work, and it seems to be good work. I have to expect there's exploitation too at some level, but China is a command and control government...what can you expect?
This video doesn't change my mind. I just wish for America's sake we could have a plant here, so we could make it. I don't think we could afford the labor, and still make profit.
I mean personally i do the same thing as them in the video for a living in canada. Im paid near mimimum salary that is 11 $ / h. What i get from this video is they got all these fancy equipement that we don't have. The thing that shock me the most is those fancy fume vacumm for soldering ... i wich i ad that 10 years ago now i got probably 4 cancer by now. Maybe its time to get a better job. I also work in a metal shop that produce all the wallmart equipement like shelves and this was a complete mess of a shop. Probably just got one more cancer just talking about it.
Lead fumes will litterally drive you crazy...
That explain a lots of things.
I would guess that all the soldering being done in this factory is being done with lead-free solder in order to be ROHS compliant. Even if this company is manufacturing phones where many are being sold just in china, many resellers pick up these inexpensive phones and rebadge them so it is probably cheaper to comply with world standards and I would also venture to guess that the lead free solder is actually cheaper to buy in china due to economy of scale anyway. I would be more concerned with all of the other things you would find in the soldering fumes due to whatever flux is being used.
kuhrd Silver is rarely cheaper than lead, even if lead works better. Ironically, I've worked in a solder plant in Princeton, IA, and they export a huge amount of solder to China.
Samsung makes their stuff in SK with underpaid robots.
All that robot labor makes me feel good when I hold the phone.
My Samsung phone is made in China, as is the Samsung notebook I am typing this on.
i have a Huawei
I now feel more appreciative for my Phone knowing how much work goes into my phone
Yeah i too
Most work goes into ASIC design. You haven't even seen the real work.
It seems my phone is particular one made in day that every of those guys actually gave a fuck what kind of product they push out, cause it havent broken yet.. though engineer was lazy as fuck, so software of hard ware is sometimes jamming/lagging behind.. Well this was not case with my old nokia.. but cant get one of those beasts these days that would confirm my need of having good camera and notebook.
Seems fine to me, just boring as fuck.
Yes such a beautiful place to be earning 318 USD a *year* working 100 Hrs of overtime a month. One worker reported that she ‘slept about two or three hours a night’ during a three month rush prior to the release of the Samsung Galaxy tablet. She also claimed she had ‘to stop breastfeeding her three-month-old infant to keep up with schedule.’
318 USD a year wtf are you talking about gringo? It's more like 1,300 USD a month.
AlexandraJohnsson Did that hurt pulling that statement out of your ass?
You talk shit man. These jobs are fairly high status. I have worked both with and in China for well over 20 years and it have changed significantly. If you are selling shoes on the market, yeh then you maybe earn 300-400USD per year. Here it's around 1500-2000USD a year for the factory workers and up. Engineers earn 6000-8000USD and sales get commission. Sometimes a good sales man/girl can earn 10-15000 per year. These jobs are popular. You have to consider, living conditions in China is equally cheaper. And, since most of these workers come from all over China, they stay in workers housing, provided by the factory, next to the factory so instead of spending a lot of money of rent and so on, they send the money home to their families and parents.
China is not USA so you can't always compare everything to how it is in USA.
actually they are even more expensive...
It's always so interesting to see this type of stuff happening in action.
Doesn't look so hidden to me
Nothing wrong with this. They work 8 hours per day and get like 5000yuan per month which is enough to live in Shenzhen because the factory offer accommodation and meals.
I know that's only about 700$ but in China you can have a meal for 2 $.
Danny Boy! Democracy can offer decent jobs to everybody? Working in factory is not supposed to be like this when you don't have automatic production line ? Even iPhone is assembled this way, come on! Are you sure you understand what the communism is? Do you expect China to be better than USA when China only has developed its economy stably for 39 years? Be pragmatic please, my friend!
I'm pretty confident, that you wouldn't support communism, if you actually lived long enough in a country, that was going towards communism. I did. For 17 years. Hell on earth... I suppose you were raised in a democratic country with human rights granted for everyone. Enjoy your freedom and stop making a fool out of yourself... Just because your mom and dad were born in CCCP doesn't mean you know anything about communism... And that you don't like Americans? Like all of them? Why? That tells a lot about you. Generalization is stupid. Always...
Danny Boy! fuck communism.Love america!Murica!
su as just 5k yuan per month?i wonder them how yp survive in shenzhen ... i thought these type of workers at least 8k rmb per month
This is why most products say " Made in China" products made for pennies on the $, and sold at high profit.
Lots of manual steps. This didn't surprise me, but to see all those people lined up each doing one minute step before sending it to the next person was really a surprise. I wonder how many of each type of phone they produce a day this way. How many phones have to be scrapped for non-conformity.
The Chinese have a lot to be proud of. Just to bad we (the USA and China) aren't stronger allies.
The USA and China both tank in international relations. 50% of people hate the US, 50% hate China. I'm Chinese-American, so 100% of people hate me.
sky ciel You make no sense.
they are doing "one minute step"(as you say), because most employees will quit the job, and so, it's much more easier to get someone productive quickly on a small job than on a more complex one, pay less, have more hands and easily replaceable
+broderp They pay the citizens of this communist country as little as possible money to manually perform tasks so that they won't have to buy robots and pay IT technicians and robotic mechanics to repair and maintain the robots. It does make sense to have those people because unlike robots, in a communistic country they can pay them whatever minuscule amount of money they feel like. This is not possible in countries that have human rights so, for that reason, manufacturing is dominated by Asia. Not sure why anyone would be proud of that though.
and the other 100% (50% China & 50% usa), Love you :-)
There are more GOOD people in our World than Bad people.
Grá from Irlande.
I love monotonous work. I am also a disabled vet with a monthly pension. A Cisco tech too! I love travel and would have no problem working in such conditions!!!!
Me to. Worked for NEC assembling laptops. Loved it.
monotonous work usually doesn't pay well...
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Magnifico, please respond while I consider an answer. Till next time.
+geekchaser Oh look, a fancy college graduate that makes well over these people saying that they would love to do manual labor all day to only get paid in peanuts... Please, you probably haven't worked a labor job a day in your life.
Instead of blurring out the video... just edit it out fools!
had to get over that 10 minute mark
This way you know it took place, and it's only 30 seconds, and you can hear the audio.
What took place, we can't see anything...
IT WAS TH-cam FAULT
it shows transparency to NOT edit it out. you still hear the sound and talking but not the top secret technology or techniques. it's like saying they left all of the footage they could and left out nothing or as little as possible
I dont understand why there is so many dislikes, this is a regulated factory with reasonably happy environment for the workers, how else do you fucking expect phones to be produced?
this is a very hard working nation , they deserve respect for that .
Doha Guide true story
These jobs may not be hard on the muscles but doing the same small task a million times a day really sucks!
Soldering...a technical skill? Uh, I don't think so. LOL :)))
427GT40 can you solder precise as them??
offers his respect for china = automatically a lazy american fuck who has it all and sits in a chair all day
seems legit
and to op, i agree
When you think about your local AT&T store charging you $700 for one of these babies you know how the company top dogs line their pockets.🤔
They are happy with their work. No need for overdramatic music.
Maybe people will have more respect for their phone now that they see how much work goes into it. So before you deside on throwing ur phone at the wall out of anger, remeber the labor it took to make it.
Experience With Me how much Labour. They made my screen fucked up!
Experience With Me yes I have learned. great comment. 100% real.
Mike Mc stupid.
yes. But, come to think of a broken phone, you will eventually buy a replacement, thus making them occupied with manufacturing one more
Nahhhhh....
You people like this, then you have celebrities who get paid to tweet. haha gotta love the world
CurlyHairJesTv world is so unfair
xD Looks pretty normal job to me. Unnecessary ominous music though. Poor millenials apparently don't know what real job is.
Jhon Krasnovskiy, Because I have owned several Lada's and in my humble opinion they are sturdiest cars ever made.
Jhon Krasnovskiy Don't know about their local experience. My experience is they rarely break down and when they do they are really easily fixable. No need for repair shop. They are darn horrible to drive though. Now days I own Renault Megane and this thing while comfortable to drive... repair myself, never.
I see no slave labor here. Everything seems in order
these aren't the slaves you're looking for... *waves jedi hand*
you don't now how long they have to work
marc esser
the average factory worker putting phones together works for 11-14 hours and sleeps at work... we do know...
slavery? LOL only happens in AMERICA.
How do you figure? No slave labor in America.
at least i am happy to see people work and not robots
Christos Pj human error
i thought everything is made by robots. My whole life was a lie...
I think robots would make better phones. I mean they would do everything exactly the same... They won't change their positions and they would put every phone in the same place. So if first phone is alright then second is alright. plus they would make more phones because robots could work at night time.
Currently robots and maintenance for many jobs is more expensive than human labour in a lot of countries.
However if there is a bigger push to raise the minimum wage factory workers can be paid, then it may be that it is then cheaper to buy and maintain robots to do the work instead.
I would suppose robots would require a huge amount of power to function which would make products way more expensive
I would suppose humans would require a huge amount of food to function which would make products way more expensive
Great footage, Very interesting. And big respect to the Chinese!
I've worked at a few factories in the UK, this looks better than those were. I've had to stand at a conveyor for 8 hours putting air fresheners into boxes. Yer it was a crap job but I did not see the world coming to film me in the UK. I've also done 12 hour a day shifts because it's the only work I can get, again in the UK. Seems to be only the middle class socialists that like to say it's bad in other countries but not in theirs.
Exactly, I have worked in Europe much shittier job and exhasuting for minimum wage loan..
TruthSeeker i feel you, I work an office job for a financial company as an analyst. You wouldn't believe the crappy coffee in our break room. Our chair lack lumbar support too!! Only reason I am putt up with this crap is the pay, health benefits, 401k plan, holiday pay, 2 month of vacation and the fact no one notices when I don't actually do any work.
kevinszhere1 rofl
Richard Collins learn more skills.
I'm a programmer. My only complaint is the lack of good butt cushions that allow one to sit for 8 hours pain free.
Thanks for the video. It´s interesting to see a chinese smartphone manufaturer from the inside for once and it´s nice to see, that the conditions at elephone are not as bad as with other chinese companies.
yes, indeed. really enjoyed this one!
keep up the good work!
switched on notifications, hope I will soon
Umihito I
Umihito doogee and bluboo is the same . Some factories are better than apples
I've been to a bunch myself over the years. For the most part, all of the things most people think about these places are complete myths. Like how they think they're children. They have 1.6 billion people, no shortage of able bodied adults lol. You won't find any children making your iphone or whatever else. Your hat, maybe, but also unlikely.
paolo rossi dont talk about things you dont know or else you ll look like an idiot
People not at their desks in the office, everyone on the working floor busy working hard. Looks just like every work place.
redblueice Pay is the Difference!
Sgtqman19 ok, I also happened to do the math, if their salary is 3,000 Yuan (1 Yuan is equal to $.15 USD) a month, then they live ether on the street, or in a very bad area just to survive because a decent or nice apartment (Assuming they have a family and need more than one bedroom) is 3,200 Yuan (or around $500) not to mention food, transportation, and sanitary needs.
If you want to work literally just to survive and not do any better for yourself. I highly doubt many places pay more.
@@paolorossi9107 There is only one reason for their hard work, piece rate
@Sgtqman19 i'd like to see you working in the factory
Why is there dramatic music? looks like a normal factory. It looks pretty decent to me
This.
I still life here since 5 years. Shenzhen is only 40 minutes with the train away of Zhongshan. I know over there well =)
what do you work ? :o
We still started up a own company as technical office for cnc-machines and components, 3D-printers, laser, development, sourcefinder and manifacture-interchange.
sounds awesome ! Good luck :)
Ein österreichisches Qualitätsprodukt, hoffe ich doch :D
Ich entwickle und produziere alles nach österreichischen Richtlinien und versuche auch hier unsere Qualitätsanforderungen umzusetzen. Ist zwar nicht immer leicht aber auch nicht unmöglich. =)
Well, knowing how many of those workers were probably overworked and thinking they would rather die then make phones. I'd say it was very informative and un biased as it should be. Thank you for the footage.
How u know? wow
I would happily trade places with any of them and I live in California. They look like they want to die a lot less than I do.
Feel sorry for the bloke who tests the beeper @ 6:36
But he gets to shake them too
China is the most hardworking nation,respect to them
No, Poland is
The only "HIDDEN" aspect of this video was the blurred out or censored portions that we couldn't see. It looks like the Chinese Factory supervisors new that you had a camera. Plus they told you not to show certain things and well you didn't sooooooo,..... NOT a hidden camera in a chinese factory.
what is The problem ? it is a normale factory
Lorenzo Moretti Little to no pay is the problem
Jonathan Hutchison ?
You asked what the problem was I answered
Jonathan Hutchison there is a right pay man
the thing is they are running a sweatshop operation where they are paid minimum wage or even less than that... and China is the place where manpower is cheap so its kinda like quantity over quality
we thought phones was made by machines, subbed
Some
I come from a country where people use Chinese smartphones such as the Elephone, Mi 7 Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE I use to had one and I spotted the hidden camera in my Huawei.
I dont understand the dramatic music... I mean, I've worked in the auto industry (for a big parts manufacturer) and it was much worse. Dangerous machines, lots of noise, lots of heat, 8h standig up with a 15 min break in the middle, very hard and fast work, always sweaty and dirty, chemicals and I had to wear a mask in a very hot envorinment, so I couldm't even have a quick talk with someone to let loose fo 2 min. Oh, and the bosses were bastards. I saw people crying from the pressure. In those days I would like a job like this! This actually looks very well organized sane and safe.
Actually it's really good looking modern factory :) And everybody who was working in a factory or warehouse knows, that when there are coming visitors or bosses, you are playing how strong and hard you are working, but in reality its kinda comfortable... Anyway, there are much more worse companies HERE in Europe then this one :)
Shouldnt be adding background music, the environment was already too loud
I didn't see anything wrong here and the ppl seem to be treated well
Jake Diaz nothing wrong? they've showed you something wrong from the very first seconds. imagine that person doing those sound tests being you... repeating the tests for 12 hours day and day... plus there's also a continuous background noise.
Ovidiu G What job do you have?
Nay, it is illegal to work 12hour a day everyday in China. Total work hour per week is less than South Korea in general.
Ovidiu G Not sure I follow your logic. 80% of jobs consist of what you just stated.
what you was think how will be like western media displays? I was believe in China eat rocks but when look yesterday they have average salary 10 times more than in my country in eu
I actually use this phone, it is very nice. THANKS china!
golden indycar What phone is that ??? Pls tell me
I actually don't remember, I got a new phone.
golden indycar I call bs
lel
All I see is a room full of early onset arthritis
Nothing wrong with this....I WOULD certainly work there!!
Many people work instead machines and they can support they families unlike in my country!! It is clean and It's not risky job!
Yes no thing wrong if get good pay!!
US$ 1.75 per hour is the salary of these chinese workers.
Takyo Tapulan yea, it's true, but you only need to pay 2 dollars for a quality meal. U can get a combo of meal in McDonald for about 3 dollars.
I see nothing wrong. Soldering stations are equiped with fume extractors, that means the company actually cares their workers don´t get lung cancer in the future. People are seated and they only perform short tasks each. Yes, repetitive but its a pattern to avoid mistakes and enhance production. 12 hours shifts and one day off is what you get for not going to college. You make a living, thats it.
I don't think you understand what it's like in China, there are so little jobs because of the overpopulation that people who are extremely educated can hardly find one.
Thomas jeffrey
Elhoussine52 a dit le président
4:19 that guy is badass ! he dont work and lookin around in front of his superiors ! what a rebel
😂😂
it looks more clean then in our hospitals
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KWIZ i hope so too
KWIZ they don't lmao
they dont
As far as I know, the factory provide them living places and meals, but most of them work at least 10h a day, and get around $500 a month.
they get paid enough so that they would stay.
I had never heard of Elephone before. And when I found out about them, I thought they were a knockoff company... Yet, I tried them out. They really fucked up the antennas in my phone and it also has a software glitch that annoyed the shit out of me. The charger dies in the first 3 months. Other than that, good phone. I still have it.
just out of curiosity why was some of the footage blurred or censored out so that we can't see it what were you hiding?
If the white guy got caught spying, he would have ended up a blur too
Preview43 I feel like he was holding the camera, considering he had full control of where it was aiming..
Preview43 XD
Seth Kauffman dont miss the zoom part
It's called clickbait. I worked at electronics plants like this, there is literally nothing special on this video that's not industry standard, offices, typical production lines, dust-free clean rooms for screen assembly, etc . The blurring is probably for effect, if I had to guess. (The video guy at the office was using a pirated copy of AfterEffects, meh, big deal). The thing is, they are not stupid. As a visitor, they will never take you anywhere near sensitive stuff (R&D, engineering, product testing, NPI, etc), so you can use your camera all you want, you literally can't film anything hidden or secret, even if you wanted to. So much for the "hidden camera" and big reveal...
great video. Chinese people are smart, hardworking people in the world.
That office table looked like a casket.
I fell like I need to sleep after watching this
Tommy Games 97 kinda boring that's why
Tommy Games 97 i cant watch this, evry fukin time i try i sleep half way in
Why the dramatic music, it's just a factory.
Good, safe , hygienic, doing the quality check properly, nicely done guys
Looks not that bad to me...if you compare it to clothing factorys its heaven. I would work there if I could :)
David Albrecht there's definitely much worse in China than here
True, I've seen way worse conditions in some electronics factories is Europe.
Or a bulb shed in the Netherlands. Breathing pure dust all day long.
David Albrecht they rarely get breaks
magsec5 Marines don't get breaks
this is pretty neat working environment. 👍👍👍🐼
Much respect for all those fine people working so hard so we may enjoy our phones. May god bless them.
I don't see a problem here. They aren't by any means doing intensive labour, they're doing simple tasks. Each person is doing something different which in a country with a huge population problem deals with unemployability and gets the phones made faster and more efficiently as eventually it'll just be muscle memory and they wont really need to think too hard about what they're doing. When compared to other jobs in china such as chinese farmers they have it so easy, it doesn't take much effort to put two pieces together and move it on. I've also heard that their pay is decent for china.
I agree with OP but what im concerned with is the relative pay and the workhours. BUT because of the greed of the consumer, these conditions really have to exist in order to sell phones as cheaply as possible.
Dont just hate on corporations, hate on consumers too!
Zipp4Everyone Or you can recognize that nobody involved is being forced, and the only reason they're doing it is because they're better off for it. Importantly, the more money you spend on your phone, the less you have to spend on clothing or books or sneakers or any one of a thousand other things that *other* poor people make. Does it make sense to pay one group more at the expense of the others?
There are tradeoffs involved that are impossible to get around.
没毛病，they are working happily, and they are treated equally. Why people hate this video?
work in a printing shop is monotonous, too - in china, in germany, in the us ....
chord work is frowned upon in the usa and in germany ;) that`s the reason
和弦的工作在美國和德國都是皺眉的
Miners,oil workers,transportation workers,ship builders/breakers,construction workers,utility workers,fisheries,and prison workers are laughing at this. The dramatic music only makes it even funnier.
why would someone have 'feelings' after watching people do what looks to be normal work at a normal factory?
Johnny Pea How do you think these products get shipped around the world so cheaply, are you completely thick, wages are terrible in China.
as if iphones are made differently.
iphones are made by robots
made in USA :D
TheDownloader86
Please
It's the 21st century
Everything's from China
Iphones are made the exactly the same way Apple just designs, update and markets them the actual manufacturing is done by Foxconn in China.
I'd rather take this china crap from people who not only try to scam but also void my privacy instead of the worst shit on earth, also called iShit.
Fascinating, the cleanliness would put some hospitals to shame!! Nice video.
i want get a job there for working together with beauty chinese girl.😄😄😄
Ben BenQ ok
you can also get beautiful chinese girls without working there :D
yeah just got to www.buy-chinese-girls.com :)
hahahhahahahhah
web page not available. error. maybe i should crying forever.😢😢😢
*_I STOPPED WATCHING THIS BECAUSE IT KEPT BLURRING THE SCREEN AND IT WAS ANNOYING_*
Ejuice Vaper
no. he's got a point. its annoying
Ugh such a wasted opportunity in terms of camerawork. You have the chances to film in a chinese smartphone factory and the best you can do is holding your camera like a dad holding a sony handycam
8:26 Factory HTC 100%. Look design lcd
Elephone factory... they have models very similar a HTC.
nice video, I hope more people see this video
thank you man! looking forward to go there again :)
Maximilian Schröder, hahaha du bist der Typ aus der 9C hei
Mr. X Nein
°°
9c was geht da ab o.o
I’m pretty sure child slavery in Africa is much more brutal than a mind numbing repetitive job that pays
I would love to visit China someday :) Its nice to see the working conditions aren't so different than my homeland (UK)
those damn blurred spots ruined it for me.
can you edit better next time? thank you
Erik If he wanted to hide something, he could be easily just edit them out. Blurring the entire screen for 20 seconds is extremely irritating.
I stayed at Foxconn for a year and before other electronics factories. At Foxconn, people are hiring every day because there may be more people applying to leave that day than those who recruit, and those who come in want to leave for a month, but the factory will pressure you to pay at least half a month's salary, submit to leave, and it will take a month to leave, if you go straight to at least half a month's salary. I can tell you that the most manual thing is iPhone, because the parts in iPhone are more precise and more, and the machine can't do it. The error of the machine is too large, the strength is not good to control, and will destroy the parts, the good rate is too low. Machines can only be used to process individual parts or large assemblies, such as cars. This is completely different from the cnc machine tool. Cnc needs special materials, his hardness and cutting tools are calculated, and the mobile phone assembly is completely different.
pretty clean
2:01 can tstop laughing Xd
Elephantphone xD
Great video and the subtitles make it even better
I worked in 3 manufactures in the U.S! our manufactures are the worst! At least in China they know how to manufacture!
In America, manufacture managers suck!!! Big time!
Even Chinese workers work better than us! Clean, organized and efficient!
Of course they will never teach us how to do manufacturing!
I swear that Chinese products are in much more better quality than American ones! I can clearly see it!
America is only good at big machinery manufacturing! Like loaders etc...
And now, we want to take the American brand manufactures back to our country! We're gonna have cheap quality products and astronomical prices instead!
Matthew Ghorbani they might have the manufacturing down to a science but they are just like corporate America, pay the workers SHIT and the company and its top dogs are the winners.
That's true, but I am talking about the quality! Chinese are very detail oriented and hard working!
I prefer to die doing what really makes me feel good to my heart and my brain doing art or as a freelancer rather than working like a robot.
You put that plant over here in the U.S. , about a week in , there would be thousands of lawsuits for carpel tunnel, back soreness, coffee too hot etc
looks pretty nice as for production work. Btw, all the microprocessors are made in USA
mtk produces in the USA ? i guess taiwan.
Hsinchu, Taiwan. Nothing was made in usa, maybe a few assembly factory working there...
USA made some semiconductor products, but they are not for mobile phones.
most processors are Korean.....
what? I swear I kept seeing made in malyasia on my cpu's, maybe that was an AMD one
what a fucking great video everything blurred. thumbs up :)))
from the rest of you who are saying that looks the same as where you work in the Free World try to make it a dollar fifty an hour working 12 hour days 6 days a week
I wana know where all the subcomponents are made for all those components.
this is where your phone are made, good job china
For anyone wondering, that was an Elephone production line. The smartphone featured was an Elephone P9000. Cheers
Atleast it's handmade
foxconn just automated 80% of its workforce. These factories are for not so popular phones. Most likely low end types that you wouldn't want to buy.
Eric Potter
yes, those types that do not exist on GSMArena 😊
Gregory W
What about OPPO ?
is it made by Foxconn or not?
No shit....? Really? That's like the world's largest cellphone maker. Lookup FoxBots. Soon no human will ever make cellphones ever
again.
they work 12 houres a day 6 days in a week and they dont even earn 1/4 fom what we earn.
Yup, very hidden indeed.
Hey you flew Finnair, one of the best airline companies.... in the world. :D
haha, yeah. really enjoyed it :) had a row for myself
It is nice to see the manufacturers actually implementing decent QA. Don't see that often with lower-end companies.
that is not a hidden camera
My 2 years old jiayu s3 is still a very good phone
+Cole Train Still going strong? I got a Blu Life One X for like $150 a year ago. Dual international sim, 1080p display, 4g, 16/8mp cameras, etc. Damn good phone, I just wish it was water proof. :/ Thought about getting a phone through a carrier but didn't want to get sucked into a plan or having a phone that wasn't actually mine. So I bought my own with an extended warranty and got my own carrier too. Only $40 a month now for unlimited talk, text and 2 GB data. I use 1.5 GB at most as it is, so that's no problem for me. Way better than $150+ a month for a stupid ass Verizon phone.
nice looks more advanced than the factorys iv worked in, Frozen Food Production in Ireland and Botanic Tulip Bulb Prep/Packaging in Holland