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Before we begin I would just like to tell you that Michael Jordan earns more in a year from Nike alone than all the Nike workers in Malasya combined!
Nike workers in developing countries work for about 12 hours a day, every day making trainers in so called 'Sweat Shops'. They are called this because the workers have to work in the blazing heat without much time for a rest.
A few years back, Nike offered a service where you could have any name you wanted printed on the side of your trainers. The rules were that you could not have any offensive, abusive or racist words on your shoe and that you can't have any registered trademark or copyrighted name printed either.
One boy filled in the application form and asked for the words 'Sweat Shop' to appear on his new and rather expensive trainers. He included a cheque with the form so he could get his shoes as soon as possible.
About a week later, he got a letter back saying that his 'slogan' contained offensive language! WTF?!?! If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you you say: "Oh Sweat Shop!" NO!
So, he sent it off again!
Again, he got a reply back from Nike saying that it was a registered trademark! What do you get? Sweat Shop™? NO!
Anyway. This boy kept sending off his application and kept getting them denied.
Pretty useless post, really. Sorry!
Nike workers in developing countries work for about 12 hours a day, every day making trainers in so called 'Sweat Shops'. They are called this because the workers have to work in the blazing heat without much time for a rest.
A few years back, Nike offered a service where you could have any name you wanted printed on the side of your trainers. The rules were that you could not have any offensive, abusive or racist words on your shoe and that you can't have any registered trademark or copyrighted name printed either.
One boy filled in the application form and asked for the words 'Sweat Shop' to appear on his new and rather expensive trainers. He included a cheque with the form so he could get his shoes as soon as possible.
About a week later, he got a letter back saying that his 'slogan' contained offensive language! WTF?!?! If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you you say: "Oh Sweat Shop!" NO!
So, he sent it off again!
Again, he got a reply back from Nike saying that it was a registered trademark! What do you get? Sweat Shop™? NO!
Anyway. This boy kept sending off his application and kept getting them denied.
Pretty useless post, really. Sorry!
Here we go again.
* Blows Dust off of his M15-A2*
Ha ha ha!
* Blows Dust off of his M15-A2*
Ha ha ha!
blahpro wrote:
> Yes. With guns and stuff...
IT BEGINS...
*retrieves nuclear weapon*
;0]
> Yes. With guns and stuff...
IT BEGINS...
*retrieves nuclear weapon*
;0]
Yes. With guns and stuff...
I heard that story as well: very ironic. I thought tha the great thing about living in this consumerist culture was supposed to be freedom: of choice and of speech. Naturally everyone knew that these freedoms only applied to the rich - but now we know that you only exercise your right to free expression if you have money AND you're saying something acceptable.
Bring on the revolution.
Bring on the revolution.
When i saw the title, i assumed this would be about the appaling conditions these people in poor countries have to endure in order to earn in a month what we can earn in two or three hours at minimum wage. But i think that is the most irrelavent thing you could have written. I have got to try that, though. Probably ask for "Give a decent paycheck to the shoe-makers" or something.
Before we begin I would just like to tell you that Michael Jordan earns more in a year from Nike alone than all the Nike workers in Malasya combined!
Nike workers in developing countries work for about 12 hours a day, every day making trainers in so called 'Sweat Shops'. They are called this because the workers have to work in the blazing heat without much time for a rest.
A few years back, Nike offered a service where you could have any name you wanted printed on the side of your trainers. The rules were that you could not have any offensive, abusive or racist words on your shoe and that you can't have any registered trademark or copyrighted name printed either.
One boy filled in the application form and asked for the words 'Sweat Shop' to appear on his new and rather expensive trainers. He included a cheque with the form so he could get his shoes as soon as possible.
About a week later, he got a letter back saying that his 'slogan' contained offensive language! WTF?!?! If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you you say: "Oh Sweat Shop!" NO!
So, he sent it off again!
Again, he got a reply back from Nike saying that it was a registered trademark! What do you get? Sweat Shop™? NO!
Anyway. This boy kept sending off his application and kept getting them denied.
Pretty useless post, really. Sorry!
Nike workers in developing countries work for about 12 hours a day, every day making trainers in so called 'Sweat Shops'. They are called this because the workers have to work in the blazing heat without much time for a rest.
A few years back, Nike offered a service where you could have any name you wanted printed on the side of your trainers. The rules were that you could not have any offensive, abusive or racist words on your shoe and that you can't have any registered trademark or copyrighted name printed either.
One boy filled in the application form and asked for the words 'Sweat Shop' to appear on his new and rather expensive trainers. He included a cheque with the form so he could get his shoes as soon as possible.
About a week later, he got a letter back saying that his 'slogan' contained offensive language! WTF?!?! If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you you say: "Oh Sweat Shop!" NO!
So, he sent it off again!
Again, he got a reply back from Nike saying that it was a registered trademark! What do you get? Sweat Shop™? NO!
Anyway. This boy kept sending off his application and kept getting them denied.
Pretty useless post, really. Sorry!