As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week's
Consumer Electronic's Show, the workers that make those products
are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions
at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood
at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their
boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site
Want China Times. It's not like this is the first time working
conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone
and Xbox sales surely haven't lagged in the wake of those
revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of
anything to fix things.   Instead of the raise they requested,
these workers were given the following ultimatum: quit with
compensation, or keep their jobs with no pay increase. Most quit
and never got the money. That's when the mass suicide threat
came in. The incident actually caused a factory wide shutdown,
reports Record China.   After the incident, Microsoft gave
Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft