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A leaked presentation to Samsung executives has provided further insight into the company's damaged internal culture.
The PowerPoint document focuses on strategies to prevent the creation of labor unions at the South Korean company and takes a very aggressive stance, treating employees as enemies, and suggesting "countermeasures", as well as ways to "dominate employees".
It also talks about "punishing" union leaders, isolating "troublesome" employees, and "inducing internal conflicts" as a way of intimidating employees and preventing the creation of unions. The presentation is also dismissive of labor laws and government ministers that have proposed changes to protect employees.
The presentation [PPT] [PDF] is dated 2012, but appears to have been used repeatedly by Samsung executives up until two years ago. It was unearthed by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which drew a direct line between the approach demonstrated in the presentation and the recent aborted launch of the Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries.
"Inhumane conditions are rife" at the company, the ITUC reports, noting that Samsung employees are overworked, under-paid, and forced to suffer appalling conditions, including "standing for 11 to 12 hours, verbal and physical abuse, severe age and gender discrimination, and lack of worker safety".
It quotes one worker who claimed that during an intense three-month period in the run-up to the release of a Galaxy tablet she slept only two or three hours a night and had to give up breastfeeding her three-month-old baby as a result.
One [slide] lists examples of employee deaths that have been attributed to overwork. One employee, Kim, killed himself and the presentation notes that he had worked 100 hours of overtime each month for nine months. A widow of a manager is quoted as saying he "died from overwork".
Ed Note: Title changed to more accurately reflect content. 0700UTC
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @01:41AM
And it's all by this spamming douchebag, phoenix, or the submission bot. We all need to step up, or else SN will shrivel away to death, without even a whimper.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @02:02AM
Um, you forgot to post the reason you think this submission sucks.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:24AM
forgot to post the reason you think this submission sucks.
We are dealing with an alt-right here, I fear. Reasoning and thinking are beyond his abilities, I am afraid. But he definitely disagrees, most strongly, for some reason he does not consciously recognize or understand. . . Brietbart!!!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @02:28AM
I wouldn't worry.
Every time idiots like gewg or phoenix666 post their pathetic cries for attention get shredded and shat out like bran.
OK, except for a few morons who believe them, but they're clearly in the minority.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 25 2016, @02:43AM
Do step up.
I submit stories over morning coffee. Takes about 2-3 mins per. I have RSS feeds I scan for stories. When there are a lot I think the SN community will like discussing, I submit them all at once so the editors can bank them against the pipeline going dry. If others submit enough, you don't see many of my submissions. I prefer those times because it's nice to see something on the main page I haven't already seen. When the pipeline dries up, my submissions are there to keep things rolling. These last couple I submitted about a week ago.
There's an FAQ with story submission guidelines [soylentnews.org]. It can help you if you haven't submitted before. I would add a couple tips that aren't in those guidelines. First, don't spend hours preparing a submission. If you did and it was turned down, you would probably be annoyed and never submit another; if it was accepted and it generated very little discussion, or even negative comments ("You SUCK!!! SN is going to the dogs, I'm leaving and never coming baaaack," etc.) you'll wonder why you wasted your time. On the bright side our kindly editors would probably give you a reason why it was rejected. (Slashdot never did, and they never accepted any of my submissions, which is why I quickly learned not to. In their case, they had a paid staff of editors who did it for you. Soylent is all volunteer.) So an investment of 2-3 minutes, or at least under 5 minutes per submission, is better.
Second, copy & paste representative excerpts from the story you're linking to rather than summarizing in your own words. Few of us are expert enough or have enough time to sit there and fact-check everything in our written summary. Do it once, thinking you've got a solid handle of, say, database architecture, and getting chopped into a million tiny pieces by database architecture pedants will convince you to let the person getting paid to get it wrong (ie. the journalist) take the lashing.
Anyway, those are a couple rules of thumb I use that others might find useful. If not, great. TIMTOWTDI [wikia.com].
I look forward to seeing new submitters filling the pipeline. I'll keep submitting mine, but it would be quite alright to never see another one of them make the editors' cut.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by snufu on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:35AM
But what if we get all of our news from SN?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 25 2016, @10:13AM
The SN RSS feed [sylnt.us]. Check that and your statement will still be true, only you'll be helping filter that into submissions for the front page.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 25 2016, @11:13AM
Just adding in an addendum in case it might help anyone who's thinking of submitting. These are what I'm going to submit from that RSS feed, and why:
How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima [lukemuehlhauser.com]
SN has a lot of history buffs. Most geeks have had an interest in WWII at some point.
Earth-sized planets with abundant water statistically likely around red dwarfs [phys.org]
Most Soylentils like planetary exploration. There will probably be a few jokes about Red Dward.
Scientists discover particles similar to Majorana fermions [phys.org]
Most Soylentils don't know much about particle physics. Our community is blessed, however, with a few who do have deep knowledge on the subject and can usually interpret the news in laymen's terms for the rest.
Nearly all Fossil brands now have hybrid smartwatches [arstechnica.com]
Stories like these can be thinly veiled advertisements, but I would submit it because the jury is still out on the subject of smartwatches and the SN community might have insight into whether smartwatches will play out well or turn out to be a dead end.
Swedes ban camera spy-drones for anything but crime fighting [theregister.co.uk]
The SN community has, like many people do, strong feelings about drones.
Big tech-media mergers raise fresh privacy concerns [phys.org]
Tech industry consolidation affects us on many levels, including as consumers and as technologists who might be caught in lay-offs that result.
Judge orders FBI to reveal whether White House launched 'Tor pedo' torpedo exploits [theregister.co.uk]
Digital liberty is something SN is always eager to discuss.
Iceland's Pirate Party tops polls ahead of national elections [theregister.co.uk]
This one is ostensibly about politics, but of possible interest to SN because the Pirate Parties in Europe were formed by geeks like us who got pissed off and did something about it.
New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery [futurism.com]
Battery life is of concern to all technology users. SN has a number of electrical engineers who are able to give insight into the topic.
So there's 9 stories I'd submit. At 2-3 minutes per submission, that's my morning cup of coffee plus news reading.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 25 2016, @09:41PM
That's what I do because I'm lazy.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 25 2016, @09:42PM
Dont be feedin dem trolls.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @03:34AM
Yeah I figure it was trollin', but it wasn't wrong either. SN could use more submitters. I'm happy to be able to help the community by submitting a lot, but more submitters is better.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @02:43AM
And it's all by this spamming douchebag, phoenix, or the submission bot. We all need to step up and stop whining like a little bitch, or else SN will shrivel away to death, without even a whimper.
There. FTFY.