Huawei's employees were chased out of the iPhone and punished by the company

Huawei has cut the salaries of two employees after using the iPhone to send New Year's greetings from the company's official Twitter account.

In a memorandum read by Reuters and Bloomberg on Jan. 3, Huawei's vice president, Chen Leifang, said the incident "damaged the Huawei brand."

In addition to deducting 5,000 yuan ($ 728) from the monthly salary of the staff, wage increases will be suspended for 12 months.

The incident occurred after the Sabient marketing company, head of Huawei's external social media, was exposed to problems preventing it from updating its Twitter account with New Year's greetings. Year.

Alternatively, an iPhone with a foreign phone card was used to send the tweet, revealing the name of the iPhone in the tweet.

Many of the company's followers have ridiculed the tweet and have been widely shared on Twitter and other sites. Although the company has replaced the tweet and created new ones that did not show the name of the tweet. iPhone, comments were constantly referring to the old tweet.

It was not the first time that the phone information that sent the tweets was causing embarrassment to a company, but it was rare to hear about the consequences.

Last year, Samsung Nigeria was forced to remove more than 300 tweets sent by Apple, while celebrities such as Gal Gandot and Indian actress Anoshka Sharma signed commercials for Huawei and Google, respectively, on the phones of their competitors.

Congratulations Huawei New Year (Twitter)