Meta fires employees for spending food allowances on personal items like acne pads and wine glasses [Video]

NEW YORK — Meta fired around two dozen employees from its Los Angeles office for misusing company meal credits for things like laundry detergent, wine glasses and acne treatment pads, a source familiar with the company confirmed to CNN.

Many of the social media giant’s corporate offices feature elaborate food services to provide employees with meals as a perk. Meta’s two-year-old office near New York City’s Penn Station, for example, features a cafeteria that feels like an upscale food court, with various stalls all free for staff.

But for employees at smaller offices without food services, the company provides meal vouchers – $20 for breakfast and $25 each for lunch and dinner – so they can have food delivered to the office while on the job.

The meal vouchers are meant for employees to eat while working at the office – sometimes long hours stretching across several meals of the day, notorious in …