mo4ch:>Huawei punishes staff for tweeting from company account via iPhone | Mo4ch News

Chinese mobile giant Huawei is penalizing two employees with docked pay and demotions after a New Year’s tweet was published on the brand’s official Twitter account marked as sent by iPhone.The two employees are facing a rough start to the year, being penalized by the company to the tune of 5,000 yuan ($728.27) per month, a pretty high price for a single Tweet.The senior vice president and director of the board, Chen Lifang, justified the punishment in an internal memo, writing that “the incident caused damage to the Huawei brand,” according to Reuters. The memo says that among the two punished is the company’s digital marketing director, who will have his pay grade reduced for an entire year for lack of managerial oversight.Naturally, the irony of the embarrassing New Year’s Eve tweet was not overlooked on social media, given the heated climate of confrontation between Apple and Huawei, particularly in light of efforts by Chinese firms just last month to boycott Apple products.What i…