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    Huawei’s Two Employees Demoted, Salaries Cut After Tweeting New Year’s Wish Using iPhone

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    By Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi on January 4, 2019 Apps, Brands, Business, Gadgets, Internet, News, Products, smartphones, Social Media, Technology, Telecoms, Twitter

    Mistakes can occur but will never be dumb enough to go to work putting on a competitor’s shirt or jacket or even being seeing at their events without a proper and formal invitation to my employer, otherwise may end up risking losing my job. Now in a similar incident, recently Huawei Technologies has punished two employees for New Year greetings sent on the smartphone maker’s official Twitter account using an iPhone, an internal memo showed.

    In an internal memo, Huawei said the blunder showed procedural lapses and management oversight

    Huawei, whose P-series handsets compete with Apple’s iPhone, on New Year’s Day wished followers a “Happy #2019” in a tweet marked sent “via Twitter for iPhone”.

    The tweet was quickly removed but screenshots of the blunder spread across social media.

    “The traitor has revealed himself,” quipped one user on microblog Weibo, in a comment ‘liked’ over 600 times.

    In an internal Huawei memo dated January 3, corporate senior vice-president and director of the board Chen Lifang said, “the incident caused damage to the Huawei brand”.

    The mistake occurred when outsourced social media handler Sapient experienced “VPN problems” with a desktop computer so used an iPhone with a roaming SIM card in order to send the message on time at midnight, Huawei said in the memo.

    The tweet was quickly removed but screenshots of the blunder spread across social media.

    Huawei, which overtook Apple as the world’s second-largest smartphone vendor by volume in January-September, declined to comment on internal issues.

    Sapient did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via the contact form on its website. Calls to its Beijing office went unanswered.

    Huawei in the memo said the blunder showed procedural incompliance and management oversight. It said it had demoted two employees responsible by one rank and reduced their monthly salaries by 5,000 yuan ($728.27).

    The pay rank of one of the employees – Huawei’s digital marketing director – will also be frozen for 12 months, it said.

    It is not the first time use of the Apple product has given cause for embarrassment.

    Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of nationalistic tabloid Global Times, was mocked online last year after he used his iPhone when expressing support for Huawei and domestic peer ZTE Corp.

    He later said his actions were not hypocritical as foreign brands should not be discriminated against.

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    Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi has been covering blockchain technology, intelligent technologies, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, telecommunications technology, sustainability, autonomous vehicles, and other topics for Innovation Village since 2017. In the years since, he has published over 4,000 articles — a mix of breaking news, reviews, helpful how-tos, industry analysis, and more. | Open DM on Twitter @TapiwaMutisi

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