Meta Fires Employees For Misuse of Meal Tokens

As Meta continues with its huge downsizing project, news sources are reporting that some employees have lost their jobs for abusing the company’s meal voucher system. 

BBC News writes that more than 30 people were fired because they used the food vouchers for "non-food items, shared credits with people, or went above budget". 

An anonymous post work social message board Blind says that the employees bought non-food items bought included toothpaste, toothbrushes and wine glasses. They wrote: "They were given a warning to stop which most of them did, but were still fired three months later even after stopping." 

Fortune adds that these employees were also accused of ordering meals when they weren’t in the office and giving their credits to other members of staff. 

Employees are given $25 for lunch, $20 for breakfast, and also $25 for dinner in vouchers if they are still in the office after 6pm and don’t have a cafeteria on site. They are supposed to be used to order food from Grubhub, the US name for takeaway website, Just Eat. Accounts vary, though, as to how much warning employees were given. 

Meta is the middle of what it has termed a “year of efficiency” with 10,000 job cuts planned from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg said: “Here’s the timeline you should expect: over the next couple of months, org leaders will announce restructuring plans focused on flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates.”

These job cuts were on top of the 11,000 lay-offs made in November 2022. 

Meta has yet to comment on the job losses related to the meal voucher scheme.