Meta fired about two dozen people at the company's Los Angeles office last week for misusing a $25 dinner coupon over an extended period of time. An employee earned $400,000 a year.
Meta gives employees a $20 credit for breakfast, $25 for lunch and $25 for dinner through Grubhub or Uber Eats. Instead of using the $25 credit to buy dinner and have it delivered to the office, some Meta staff opted to buy items like toothpaste and wine glasses with the credit, for Financial Times. Either they would take home dinner or pool their loan money together.
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Staff who were let go routinely misused their vouchers, while others who misapplied them less often were reprimanded but not fired.
The Meta employee, who earned $400,000, wrote on an anonymous messaging platform that the meal credit release was “surreal.”
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Meta started one the new round of layoffs on Wednesday that affected teams throughout Instagram, WhatsApp and Reality Labs. It is unclear how many people have been affected.
Meta reported Revenue growth of 22%.or revenue of $39.07 billion, in it the second trimester at the end of July. In an earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company was “driving good growth” and that Meta AI was “on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”
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