The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp recently let go of more than 20 of its employees because employees bought household goods and wine for the take-home from the company's workplace meal allotment.
For a long time, employees were clever in distributing their meal allowances, that is, they violated the company's internal regulations. Other workers, who were found to have done this only a few times, were reprimanded at work, The Guardian reported pedigreed As reported by the Financial Times and Quartz.
Affected workers had a budget of US$20 for breakfast and US$25 for lunch and dinner, provided by Meta so they could eat comfortably at their workplace, at Meta's headquarters. The company also operates a similar employee support system at other locations.
Employees can order delivery via Uber Eats or Grubhub on a budget.
Meta got rid of sent workers because they would order toothpaste, detergents, and often wine to their homes instead of food.
The newspaper wrote that they deceived the system by collecting their money and using it to make purchases, and the food was not ordered to their offices, but to their homes.
