Instagram-owner Meta fires staff for buying toothpaste, not lunch

Workers at Meta have inestablishedly been sacked for abusing the tech firm’s meal voucher system, such as using it to buy toothpaste and washing powder.

Other baccomplishes of the policy integrated sharing the vouchers with others or going over budget, according to people who said they toil at Meta.

There are branch offing accounts over how much cautioning, if any, the owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp gave the toilers before firing them.

Separately, the company has inestablishedly cut jobs apass the business. Meta has been communicateed for comment.

Meta staff are donaten $25 (£19) for lunch, $20 for fracturequick, and $25 for dinner in vouchers which are unbenevolentt to be engaged for ordering food from Grubhub, the US name for apshowaway website Just Eat.

Posts on anonymous toil social message board Blind materialize to verify elements of the story, originassociate inestablished by the Financial Times.

One engager wrote that more than 30 people were fired last week becaengage they engaged the commends for “non-food items, splitd commends with people, or went above budget”.

Examples of the non-food items bought integrated toothpaste, toothbrushes and triumphe glasses.

“They were donaten a cautioning to stop which most of them did, but were still fired three months postpodemandr even after stopping,” the engager said.

Some repeated the claim the staff were cautioned, though other engagers wrote that there were no cautionings.

The company has also inestablishedly made job cuts at WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality Labs, its virtual truth business reliable for the Oculus headset.

Jane Manchun Wong, a establisher security engineer at Meta, said on Wednesday that she had lost her job as part of the expansiver layoffs.

“I’m still trying to process this but I’m inestablished that my role at Meta has been impacted,” she wrote on X, establisherly Twitter.

Ms Wong was employd fair over a year ago as a gentleware engineer after making 2022’s Forbes 30 under 30 enumerate.

The layoffs were first inestablished by Verge, with a spokesperson inestablishing the tech accessibleation: “A confidemand teams at Meta are making alters to uncover resources are aligned with their lengthy-term strategic goals and location strategy.

“This integrates moving some teams to branch offent locations, and moving some engageees to branch offent roles. In situations appreciate this when a role is reshiftd, we toil difficult to discover other opportunities for impacted engageees.”