About 24 employees at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, are said to have lost their employment at its Los Angeles office. The impacted employees were charged with spending their $25 (£19) meal credits on wine glasses, toothpaste, laundry detergent, and acne pads.
It was revealed that the employees had been abusing the system by sending food home while they weren’t actually in the workplace, as evidenced by an investigation that led to their termination. An anonymous employee earning $400,000 was one of the fired staff members.
On the messaging app accessed by BrandSpur digital news platform, Blind, an anonymous former employee revealed how she and her coworkers made the most of their dinner credits by using them to purchase other essentials even though they could acquire food elsewhere. While one of the employees acknowledged the breach, it was found as part of the human resources process.
Reports state that workers who broke the regulations from time to time were warned yet kept their jobs. Employee benefits like free dinners have long been a feature of large software companies like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
Larger offices, like Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, usually provide free lunches to their employees from on-site canteens. Workers at smaller establishments earn $20 for breakfast, $25 for lunch, and $25 for supper each day in food credits that can be redeemed through delivery services like UberEats and Grubhub.
