Meta Fires Employees For Using $25 Dinner Vouchers To Buy Toothpaste

Meta has fired around two dozen employees in its Los Angeles office over the misuse of a $25 dinner voucher, such as using it to buy toothpaste and washing powder.

Meta offers its employees daily meal credits, including $20 for breakfast, $25 for lunch, and $25 for dinner, which can be used on platforms like Grubhub or Uber Eats. The company expects staff to use these credits for food to be delivered to their office.

However, according to a report by The Financial Times, some employees misused the vouchers by ordering non-food items such as toothpaste and wine glasses or having meals delivered to their homes. Others reportedly pooled their meal credits to make joint purchases.

The employees who were let go had been found to routinely misuse the meal credits. In contrast, staff members who misapplied the vouchers less frequently received reprimands but were allowed to keep their jobs.

One of the dismissed employees, who earned a substantial annual salary of $400,000, described the firing as “surreal” on an anonymous messaging platform, BBC reports.

The widespread firings have caused a stir among the staff, given that such a relatively small benefit led to significant consequences.

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These terminations occurred amid Meta’s broader restructuring efforts. The tech giant initiated a new round of layoffs last week, affecting employees across key divisions like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality Labs. The exact number of people affected by the company-wide layoffs remains unclear.

Despite these challenges, Meta has reported impressive financial performance. In its second-quarter earnings report in July, the company posted a 22% growth in revenue, reaching $39.07 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized Meta’s progress in an earnings call, stating that the company was “driving good growth” and that Meta AI was on track to become “the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year.”