Chinese Companies Threaten To Fire Workers Who Buy iPhone 7

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Under the guise of patriotism or treating unhealthy obsessions with pricey technology, Chinese companies are banning the newest iPhone. Some workers who own the device may even be forced to resign.

…those issuing the anti-iPhone edicts to their staff are claiming they are doing it for patriotic reasons. This is the case with one firm in Henan province called the Nanyang Yongkang Medicine Company, that issued a notice to its workers telling them not to buy the iPhone 7 or Iphone 7 Plus. "If you break this rule, then just come to the office straight way to hand in your resignation," the notice read. The policy was timed to coincide with commemoration of the 85th anniversary of Japanese troops invading north east China in 1931. "September 18th is a historical day. Don't forget the national humiliation and let's boycott foreign products," the company notice read.
 
So, Chinese companies are boycotting a Chinese-made product in the name of patriotism?

Even worse, it's tied to the anniversary of an invasion, almost a century ago, by a country largely unrelated to the iPhone.

My guess is that the presidents of these companies invested in iPhone competitors and lost money, and now they are taking it out on the employees.
 
Better to buy the cheap knockoff version! If they had any pride they wouldn't be trying to copy everything in western countries.
 
I have serious doubts about how far management thought about this... Someone has an agenda here, and it's probably not middle management
 
evilsofa said:
We shouldn't be throwing stones in our glass house. We have a nativist Presidential candidate selling Chinese-made jingoistic anti-trade anti-foreigner products and flags.
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Fair point, but at the very least, employers dictating to employees what they can and cant buy or do in their own time wouldn't fly here.
 
Didn't Steve Ballmer (when he was CEO of Microsoft) grab an employee's iPhone and throw it on the ground a few years ago?
 
That's called protectionism here and is frowned upon by all the free trade idiots. In China, it's just business as usual.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Fair point, but at the very least, employers dictating to employees what they can and cant buy or do in their own time wouldn't fly here.
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100 years ago it would have been the same thing in the west, China is yet to see it's full blown labor movement but it's only a matter of time one the average standard of living gets high enough.
 
Kor said:
100 years ago it would have been the same thing in the west, China is yet to see it's full blown labor movement but it's only a matter of time one the average standard of living gets high enough.
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Yep. The only edge we have against China these days is that they haven't developed into a modern liberal democracy. Once they do, they will out-compete us economically, based on their sheer size.
 
steakman1971 said:
Didn't Steve Ballmer (when he was CEO of Microsoft) grab an employee's iPhone and throw it on the ground a few years ago?
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It was a joke. It was during a company event. Ballmer was on stage, when he spotted an employee taking pic/video with it. So he grabbed it, put it on the ground, and fake stomped it, while everyone booed.
 
If China is so opposed to foreign things entering the country, perhaps they should build a wall...

And make the Mongolians pay for it!
 
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