I bet that was really worth it...
This facebook example by contrast is hilarious bean counting partnering with moronic principles.
And where is the quote from the person that bought toothpaste at the request of a homeless person? I'd like to be in the HR office for that conversation.
I'd wonder if that was part of the issue here, actually; are these sorts of meal vouchers treated specially for tax in the US?
My impression is that's created a deeply rooted sense of need. That sense of need stays, even when you clearly have great salaries.
So probably a perk they decided was worth it or necessary for morale at some point
If they had an engineering job that solves problems, they'll probably be OK.
> Employees who had only occasionally broken the rules were reprimanded, but were able to keep their jobs, the newspaper reported.
It sounds like the fired employee’s abuse was especially egregious and most Meta employees doing this got off with a warning.
Bad companies do this. They are so conflict-avoidant they would rather end useful programs instead of addressing the few bad-apples.
Good on Meta.
…maybe Zuck is exempt though? (https://www.15minutebusinessbooks.com/blog/2019/07/26/you-ca...)
Either give someone $20 or don’t. Then you don’t have to have an entire investigative department devoted to auditing whether an item has caloric value or not.
You wouldn't say the same thing about a company credit card.
The natural aristocrats are unaffected, not because they get away with abusing the system, but because they don't abuse them.
One has to be remarkably pathetic and morally bankrupt to abuse this in the first place. Meta is simply correcting their mistake of hiring a fundamentally unqualified peasant.
But trying anything like that here is "socialism".
Meta provides a $25 meal delivery credit for employees in offices that do not serve catered dinner. It is valid only within a specific time window on weekdays, and meals can only be delivered to the office.
The offense here is that employees were ordering items other than food, or not actually working at the time of delivery. Like they would order food to the office, go in to grab it, and then leave.
Meta's behavior seems quite justified here.
> The company had also reportedly become more stringent on office supplies including staplers and tape, with staff having to borrow items from their reception desks instead.
I’m sure Google can compute the cost of a $400,000/- a year employee traipsing down the hallway to borrow a stapler. Pretty sure the stapler will pay for itself in a few trips.
Well it wasn’t pennies. HR filtered to find those who claimed thousands and then managed to prove many of them were ordering on days they hadn’t even swiped into the office. Anyway, when HR finally did look into it dozens of people got fired from their $n00,000 job for stealing $5,000 worth of food. Good to fire them, you don’t want to hire people that stupid.
I've seen people empty drink refrigerators into duffle bags before the weekend.
There was a guy who took dozens of travel-sized deodorants from the bathroom and kept them in his desk (and still didn't use them...)
There was someone who would pressure the cafeteria staff for 10 "to-go" meal containers.
All highly-paid engineers. Money doesn't buy class
The IRS doesn’t view it that way — if people were just given an extra $70 a day for expenses not related to their job, it would typically to be taxed as compensation.
If they allowed this to happen unchecked and lots of people started doing it, the headline would be “Meta facilitates tax avoidance scheme for employees making $400k”
Yes. This is called fraud. Even if you feel mega corp X is bad, defrauding mega corp X is… also bad.
"Abuse" of perks and expense reports are the first place you look. It's an easy, terminable offense.
