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by FireBeyond 612 days ago
The critical word in this headline is missing (maybe a length issue)...

> Meta Fires Employee Making $400,000 Per Year Over a $25 Meal Voucher Issue

This wasn't one $25 meal voucher, this was employees buying homegoods and pooling credit for other purposes:

> some Meta staff opted to buy items like toothpaste and wine glasses with the credit, per The Financial Times. Or they would get dinner delivered at home or pool their credit money together

> The staff who were let go routinely misused their vouchers

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The funny thing is that pooling the credit is probably the best possible ROI for meta because if they're pooling the benefit they're probably using it together which builds morale, cohesion and friendship and even if they aren't and it's a rotation as to who gets the benefit the interdependence of trading favors has the same effect just less so.

I agree that the other stuff is arguably abuse and defeats the point of getting the employees to come to the office and eat in the office.