Some workers pooled their money or had meals delivered to their homes.
Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.
The terminations took place last week, just days before the $1.5 trillion social media company separately began restructuring certain teams across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, its augmented and virtual reality arm, on Tuesday.
The revamp has included cutting some staff and relocating others, several people familiar with the decisions said, in a sign that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s recent efficiency drive is still under way.
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Corporations be corperating
The worker is always the weaker side. Restructuring is never to reduce shareholder profits
Probably they are just looking for excuses to lay people off.
I doubt if these employees were valued productive members of the company they'd be let go for minor infractions.
It's quite possible, since META is undergoing a restructuring.