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Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Gotta get creative with your layoffs when you already did massive layoffs but still need to please wall street.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where’s the scam? If the company is providing a $25 credit as a benefit, then they should just give the employees $25. Why should Meta get a say in how it’s spent?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Because that's part of the deal. They get free credits for 3 meals a day as an added bonus but they broke the very simple terms that came with those. That makes the employees untrustworthy since they can't keep a very simple promise.

Also they probably have to spend them that way because it becomes plain income otherwise, which means it will be taxed accordingly. And that will ruin this benefit for anyone.

Fuck meta and stuff, but this is a pretty great deal for employees.