India, Nov. 28 -- A Delhi based franchisor has ignited a sharp online discussion after sharing an incident involving one of his employees purchasing a high value smartphone. Taking to X, the user identified as Kawaljeet Singh wrote, "One of my Operations Manager with 26k salary has just bought a 70k iPhone. His financing plan, one month salary advance from us, 14k cash payment and 30k online financing with approximately three thousand monthly EMI for twelve months and by the way he has three kids and a dependent wife at home. Mindblown."

The post quickly garnered more than 2 lakh views. Several users reacted by arguing that the employee was underpaid, while others expressed surprise at his financial planning choices.

Singh later issued ...