Employees at Meta have reportedly been sacked for abusing the tech agency’s meal voucher system, resembling utilizing it to purchase toothpaste and washing powder.
Different breaches of the coverage included sharing the vouchers with others or going over funds, in keeping with individuals who stated they work at Meta.
There are differing accounts over how a lot warning, if any, the proprietor of Instagram, Fb and WhatsApp gave the employees earlier than firing them.
Individually, the corporate has reportedly minimize jobs throughout the enterprise. Meta has been contacted for remark.
Meta workers are given $25 (£19) for lunch, $20 for breakfast, and $25 for dinner in vouchers that are meant for use for ordering meals from Grubhub, the US identify for takeaway web site Simply Eat.
Posts on nameless work social message board Blind seem to verify parts of the story, initially reported by the Monetary Instances.
One consumer wrote that greater than 30 folks have been fired final week as a result of they used the credit for “non-food gadgets, shared credit with folks, or went above funds”.
Examples of the non-food gadgets purchased included toothpaste, toothbrushes and wine glasses.
“They got a warning to cease which most of them did, however have been nonetheless fired three months later even after stopping,” the consumer stated.
Some repeated the declare the workers have been warned, although different customers wrote that there have been no warnings.
Individually, the corporate has additionally reportedly made job cuts at WhatsApp, Instagram and Actuality Labs, its digital actuality enterprise accountable for the Oculus headset. These cuts should not associated to the problems surrounding the voucher system.
Jane Manchun Wong, a former safety engineer at Meta, stated on Wednesday that she had misplaced her job as a part of these wider layoffs.
“I’m nonetheless making an attempt to course of this however I’m knowledgeable that my position at Meta has been impacted,” she wrote on X, previously Twitter.
Ms Wong was employed simply over a 12 months in the past as a software program engineer after making 2022’s Forbes 30 below 30 checklist.
The layoffs have been first reported by Verge, with a spokesperson telling the tech publication: “Just a few groups at Meta are making adjustments to make sure assets are aligned with their long-term strategic targets and site technique.
“This contains shifting some groups to totally different areas, and shifting some staff to totally different roles. In conditions like this when a task is eradicated, we work laborious to seek out different alternatives for impacted staff.”
