Meta employee earning ₹3 crore fired for using meal credits to buy household items
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Meta has fired 24 employees in Los Angeles after it emerged that they were misusing company-issued meal credits for personal household purchases.
However, two dozen employees were fired by Meta after the company found they were using meal credits to buy household items.
The tech giant fired only those employees who were found to have abused the food credit system for a long period of time. Some employees were using the credits to have food delivered to their homes, even though they were meant only for office use. Others were found pooling their money together
One fired employee shared her experience in a post on the app Blind, where verified professionals can share their workplace experiences anonymously.
The ex-Meta employee said they used their $25 meal credit on things like toothpaste from Rite Aid. The ex-employee said they were earning $400,000 (around ₹3.3 crore) at Meta.
“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,” they wrote on Blind.
When questioned by HR, they admitted to the oversight. However, they were later fired unexpectedly. “It was almost surreal that this was happening,” the person wrote.
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I don't think an employee valued at $400k a year would be let go over meal voucher ethics.
How difficult would it be for them to find an individual with similar skills? Employees with that level of expertise valued at $400K a year aren't easy to come by.
Are you quite certain of it when you said that finding replacements for that skill-sets is rather difficult?
Have in the not so distant past, known of even top management people (including C_Os) being asked to resign or even fired.. for lying in the resume or in the declarations to the organisation.
Although 'some'-times ethics can be a fluid concept.. generally speaking.. unethical pests are better suited or rather tolerated in parliaments (or the local governing bodies).
In public life, one has to be more responsible though.