send to Mordor

v. phr.— «Hardware techies at Apple are regularly sent from California for intense two-week shifts to the city-sized FoxConn factory in Shenzhen, China where iPods are made and tested. Internally at Apple this is known as “being sent to Mordor.”» —“‘This is my church’” Popbitch (United Kingdom) Sept. 13, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)