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Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, they're using this as an excuse to cull the workforce.

In most orgs, this would merely result in losing access to the benefit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It can be both, since the vouchers have existed for years and are only now getting scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And with a normal org, they'd simply revoke the benefit and maybe take a penalty from the employee's future paychecks. Firing someone over such a small benefit is ridiculous and only makes sense if they're actively looking for ways to cut headcount w/o paying severance or unemployment.