Foxconn just can't keep out of trouble.

According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily and GamesInAsia, thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant assembling the Sony Playstation 4.

Students have been told if they refuse to participate, they lose six course credits, which effectively means they will not be able to graduate.

Officially, the program is considered an “internship” and it is publicly recognized and promoted by the school. But students have said that once they got to Foxconn, they were assigned to jobs that had no relation whatsoever to their fields of study, including grunt work like distribution and shipping.

Sadly most Americans won't read or even see this story and will rush to purchase products like the PS4 and iPhone 5c and 5s regardless, as we saw recently when Apple sold 9 million iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C units in first weekend.

Pretty sad.