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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'

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Post by Joker_vD »

xnickb wrote: post #25
Etheryte wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not fire someone who is stealing from the company? Not seeing the logic here.

> stealing from the company Do you imply the person didn't eat that day or what? The company compensates employees food expenses. The employee's partner made the food and thus the food can't be expended, so they bought something else at the equivalent price to compensate for what would otherwise be covered by the company. I can't find a logic by which this is "stealing". Please clarify.

Something along the lines of "they could've said the company that amount of money, instead they've spent it on themselves!"

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

TrackerFF wrote: post #28
echoangle wrote: post #3

> 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...

My guess is that said person will land another $400k job in the industry.

Unless they had one of those corporate bullshit jobs like diversity, inclusivity and sensitivity consultant, survey administrator, human resources, corporate compliance officer, task-master, etc.

If they had an engineering job that solves problems, they'll probably be OK.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by jader201 »

TrackerFF wrote: post #28
echoangle wrote: post #3

> 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...

My guess is that said person will land another $400k job in the industry.

That used to be much easier than it is nowadays.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by Rygian »

Meal money in France is credited (either as vouchers or as a separate credit card-like card) that can only be spent either in restaurants, or to spend in supermarkets. Supermarkets are only allowed to sell a limited list of goods that qualify as meal on that credit, the system is directly integrated in the cash register software.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by dustyventure »

jcgrillo wrote: post #24
tyleo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 i…

Whether or not they intended to send a message, if I work at the facebook the blaring loud message I just received is "do not under any circumstances try to expense anything, ever."

And given that I don't work at Facebook the message to me is even clearer.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by lazide »

stickfigure wrote: post #19
bananapub wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or, clearly, they value the employee in a way they don’t want to pay them $400k. And the fool made it easy for them.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by SkyPuncher »

jvanderbot wrote: post #8
echoangle wrote: post #3

> 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...

Why are people getting weird things like corporate food stamps when they are being paid 400,000 anyway?

I, for one know, some people like this. They grew up in struggling families where food and resources were scarce at times.

My impression is that's created a deeply rooted sense of need. That sense of need stays, even when you clearly have great salaries.

Re: Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

stickfigure wrote: post #19
bananapub wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>If you value these employees so much that you pay them $400k/yr

A company isn't paying you X amount of money because it "values you", they pay you that because of the market forces that force them to pay you that amount of money. They'd gladly pay you nothing and crack a whip on your back if they could get away with it.

"Valuing you" is something your family will do, but rarely a company, especially a publicly traded one.

>be careful what message you want to send.

The message was exactly the one they wanted to send: "Everyone is expendable".

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