Here’s one of those unwritten rules: if you use your employee privileges to buy iPhones at a discount and then sell them on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) at a significant profit, you’ll get you canned. Apparently, U.K. operator O2, has fired six employees for doing so and another 20 are under investigation, reports Cellular-News, which quotes the Mail on Sunday newspaper. Apparently, O2 was tipped off that this might be a problem after some retail employees, all based in London, bought noticeably large quantities of the handsets with a 20 percent staff discount. Duh.
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