I knew someone who would take company products to lenient stores and "return" them for a refund >:( They worked in PR and had access to samples unquestioned
Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
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Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are people getting weird things like corporate food stamps when they are being paid 400,000 anyway?
Because that's better for morale and has a lower administrative overhead than the administrative overhead of having a cutoff or whatever.
It would be even less administrative overhead to just give everyone the $18.2k/yr in their regular paycheck.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
why? they fired them to send a message to the other employees.
Because training employees is expensive & may not be obvious how the $ could be used. In the employee side it is a small % of total comp so it doesn’t make sense for them either.
It isn’t clear that they fired the employees to send a message. From the article, it doesn’t look like Meta told other employees, “we fired people who abused the free meal service,” so I don’t know how others would get the message. Instead it was posted on Blind and picked up by news which seems like a poor way to send a message from a PR perspective.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#14> 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. I bet that was really worth it...
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
Why would you not fire someone who is stealing from the company? Not seeing the logic here.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
why? they fired them to send a message to the other employees.
For accidentally bundling a toothpaste with some groceries? That seems excessive but again I don’t know the scale of it.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#16> 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. I bet that was really worth it...
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
FTA:
> Employees who had only occasionally broken the rules were reprimanded, but were able to keep their jobs, the newspaper reported.
It sounds like the fired employee’s abuse was especially egregious and most Meta employees doing this got off with a warning.
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#18Aren't they just finding a good reason to save 400K/year * how many they fire.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
why? they fired them to send a message to the other employees.
If you value these employees so much that you pay them $400k/yr, be careful what message you want to send.
My assumption is that this is an excuse to get rid of some employees they didn't want anyway.
Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a bad exchange for both the employee and the company. TBH I feel Meta could have just ended the program for these folks rather than flat out firing them.
FTA: > Employees who had only occasionally broken the rules were reprimanded, but were able to keep their jobs, the newspaper reported. It sounds like the fired employee’s abuse was especially egregious and most Meta employees doing this got off with a warning.
Thanks! I missed that part.