Foxconn reportedly set to hire 90K workers for iPhone 5S production ramp

[SysAdmin]

Sadly I have no Amiga phone news to report.

Foxconn reportedly set to hire 90K workers for iPhone 5S production ramp.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/29/foxconn-reportedly-set-to-hire-90k-workers-for-iphone-5s-production-ramp

To put that in perspective that's more people than work at Microsoft.

[Duce]

To put that in perspective that's more people than work at Microsoft.

Afraid not, better check those numbers again.

[psxphill]

Foxconn reportedly set to hire 90K workers for iPhone 5S production ramp.

I wonder what these people will do when they get laid off after the initial rush.

[gertsy]

I wonder what these people will do when they get laid off after the initial rush.

I wonder what the tech writers will do when people find out they just make facts up and watch them propagate.  I'd be laughing just as much as them, I guess, If I did it too. Sorry I'm wrong: They just quote a source from a dodgy Taiwanese news site. Numbers that Foxconn don't confirm and no recruitment drive from their web sites. The word "reportedly" is always key. Once something is reported its always reportedly. Doesn't need to be fact or rumour. Reportedly I look like Patrick Stewart.
  But still 90k sounds like a good number I wonder how quickly they can build the infrastructure to support that many.