Facebook and Instagram owner reportedly dismisses about 24 workers for abusing $25 meal credit system
Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Free food has long been one of the perks of working for large tech companies.Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Free food has long been one of the perks of working for large tech companies., has reportedly fired about 24 staff at its Los Angeles offices for using their $25 meal credits to buy items such as toothpaste, laundry detergent and wine glasses.
That included one unnamed worker on a $400,000 salary, who said they had used their meal credits to buy household goods and groceries such as toothpaste and tea. On the anonymous messaging platform Blind, they wrote: “On days where I would not be eating at the office, like if my husband was cooking or if I was grabbing dinner with friends, I figured I ought not to waste the dinner credit.”
The worker admitted the breach when approached as part of a human resources investigation into the practice and was later fired. “It was almost surreal that this was happening,” the person wrote, according to the Financial Times,Some employees were also found to have spent the credits on other household items, such as acne pads. Employees who had only occasionally broken the rules were reprimanded, but were able to keep their jobs, the newspaper reported.
But those at smaller sites are given daily credits to order food though delivery services such as UberEats and Grubhub. Daily allowances include $20 for breakfast, $25 for lunch and $25 for dinner.at its Silicon Valley campus by half an hour to 6.30pm, as part of wider cuts. It meant fewer employees would eat on campus if they managed to catch the last shuttle leaving the site at 6pm. It also made it more difficult for employees to stock up on free food to bring home as leftovers.
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