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Re:Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on househo... by salawat on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:06AM (#41880108)
Money is fungible. I will not accept an employer controlling what an employee does with compensation period. That opens too many doors for top-down systemic abuse. There is only an objective, ill defined by the company, and likely so extremely creepy like "we get higher productivity numbers when you eat at the company cafeteria, so we want to nudge you there."

No. No. No. No. Go to hell. Seen the company store thing before. Not doing it. Not inviting that back into the world. Take the fetish of programmable cash/scrip and shove it.

And until we talk about wage theft seriously, I am not willing to even budge that most employers have an actionable harm committed against them. Again, the collective/corporation cannot resist the urge to conspire against the individual any more than the individual is known to get the most out of the machinations of the collective. No one at the table has clean hands, but the collective through scale has far dirtier hands than by average the individual does.

Re:Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on househo... by taskforcegemini on Friday October 18, 2024 @02:30PM (#41882134)
the reason can also be laws, taxes etc. some incentives can be deducted. however if it is being deducted and the irs finds out, the company can get in trouble. this is speculation as I don't know what it's like in the usa, but is true for some countries in europe.
Re:Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on househo... by shagie on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:19PM (#41884362)
Publication 15-B (2024), Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b

The section on de minimis meals covers what is allowed. Buying toothpaste and groceries doesn't fall under that exclusion. Employees doing this were inadvertently causing Meta to commit tax fraud with unreported fringe benefits.