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Delhi Restaurateur Defends ₹26,000 Pay After Employee Buys ₹70,000 iPhone

His defense centers on free housing with meals valued at roughly ₹15–20k a month plus an internal promotion from delivery duty to local operations.

Overview

  • Kawaljeet Singh said on X that an operations manager on ₹26,000 monthly pay purchased an iPhone costing about ₹70,000.
  • He detailed the financing as a one‑month salary advance, ₹14,000 in savings, and roughly ₹30,000 via online credit with about ₹3,000 EMIs for 12 months.
  • Singh added that the worker supports a dependent wife and three children.
  • Responding to criticism over wages, he counted free accommodation and food toward compensation and highlighted company training that led to the role.
  • He invited detractors to hire the employee for higher pay and said he could find someone with better skills at the same package, with no verified change in the employee’s pay reported.