“That included one unnamed worker on a $400,000 salary, who said they had used their meal credits to buy household goods and groceries such as toothpaste and tea.”
Meta fired about 24 people in Los Angeles over $25 meal credits spent on toothpaste, laundry detergent and wine glasses. The firings landed as Meta began cutting and relocating staff at WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality Labs. A company worth £1.2tn audited the dinner budget the same week it trimmed headcount. The toothpaste is the headline. The timing is the story.