{"id":312025,"date":"2025-11-28T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:40:41","slug":"delhi-founder-shocked-as-employee-earning-%e2%82%b926000-buys-iphone-worth-%e2%82%b970000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312025\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi founder shocked as employee earning \u20b926,000 buys iPhone worth \u20b970,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Delhi-based food entrepreneur Kawaljeet Singh has expressed his shock at an employee buying an Apple iPhone worth \u20b970,000, noting that the employee\u2019s monthly salary is less than half the cost of the expensive gadget. Singh also hit back at critics who claimed he was underpaying the employee, defending the salary as adequate compensation for someone who has no formal education and whose food and accommodation expenses are being taken care of by his company.<\/p>\n

\u20b926,000 per month spent \u20b970,000 on an iPhone. (LinkedIn)” title=”Kawaljeet Singh revealed that his employee earning \u20b926,000 per month spent \u20b970,000 on an iPhone. (LinkedIn)” \/> \"Kawaljeet\u20b926,000 per month spent \u20b970,000 on an iPhone. (LinkedIn)” title=”Kawaljeet Singh revealed that his employee earning \u20b926,000 per month spent \u20b970,000 on an iPhone. (LinkedIn)” \/> Kawaljeet Singh revealed that his employee earning \u20b926,000 per month spent \u20b970,000 on an iPhone. (LinkedIn) Salary: 26k; iPhone: 70k<\/p>\n

Kawaljeet Singh is the co-founder of Khadak Singh Da Dhaba and founder of The China Door. In his post shared on the social media platform X one day ago, Singh said that an employee who earns \u20b926,000 per month just shelled out \u20b970,000 for an iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also explained how the employee, an Operations Manager, managed to rustle up the sum. He took a one month salary <\/a>advance from his employers, spent \u20b914,000 from his own savings, and the rest \u2014 \u20b930,000 \u2014 came from online financing.<\/p>\n

The money he raised through online financing will have to be paid back. The EMIs come to \u20b93,000 per month for the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

Singh added that the employee has a dependent wife and three children. \u201cMind=Blown,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Founder faces backlash for low pay<\/p>\n

While many criticised the Operations Manager\u2019s lack of financial planning, others also slammed Singh for what they called a low wage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think someone needs to do an intervention about this to him. He needs to sit down with a well educated finance advisor who can make him understand what he’s doing. He may have taken other loans as well without understanding the repercussions,\u201d an X user opined.<\/p>\n

\u201cDude, don’t call him manager, he is not even earning 1K per day. Mason earns more than this,\u201d another told Singh. \u201cPlease give him a raise. Please! You\u2019re such a miser in paying people,\u201d an X user requested.<\/p>\n

(Also read: \u2018Disillusioned\u2019 Indian man quits JPMorgan job and takes 70% pay cut: \u2018Success isn\u2019t big paychecks\u2019<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t it shameful for hiring an operation manager for only 26k a month?\u201d a user asked.<\/p>\n

Delhi founder hits back at critics<\/p>\n

Singh finally responded to all the criticism in a follow-up post, where he explained that the employee in question has no formal education. He also revealed that besides earning \u20b926,000 a month, the employee gets access to free accommodation and food as he works in the Food and Beverage industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe works in FnB, so accommodation and food expenses are being taken care of by us,\u201d wrote Singh, revealing that these expenses add up to around \u20b920,000 per month.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have a formal education, no other skills. Joined as a delivery boy & within 2-3 years, takes care of local ops. All training done by us at our costs,\u201d the Delhi-based entrepreneur added.<\/p>\n

Besides this, the Operations Manager gets extra perks like being able to take an advance on his salary any time he wants.<\/p>\n

Singh further invited his critics to hire the man if they could pay him more. \u201cAnybody who thinks he deserves better, don\u2019t guilt trip me and hire him and pay him better. We can find someone with better skills at same salary package,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delhi-based food entrepreneur Kawaljeet Singh has expressed his shock at an employee buying an Apple iPhone worth \u20b970,000,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[16357,49,48,139255,139253,190,139254,11337,139256,61],"class_list":["post-312025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple-iphone","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-delhi-based-entrepreneur","tag-fnb","tag-mobile","tag-operations-manager","tag-salary","tag-salary-in-delhi","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}