A former recruiter working for Meta, shared that she was making about $190,000 per year doing absolutely nothing at her job, while her company was laying off other workers.
The woman @maddie_macho on TikTok, shared that she was working at Meta in 2021 for about 6 months, and said that she was being paid while doing nothing at work.
She shared her post just days after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced that they would be retrenching more than 10,000 employees.
Maddie titled her video, “getting paid $190k to do nothing at Meta” and she shared how while she was there, her company wasn’t hiring new workers at the time, and she couldn’t hire anyone despite her position being a recruiter.
She said that she wasn’t expected to hire anybody for the first 6 months to a year, and it “really blew my mind, like perfect, I’m just going to ride this out for a year.”
She added that all she did at work was “learning” during her onboarding and training process, and laughed at how she had initially expected her job to be “taking it all in”.
However, she questioned the many team meetings that she had to attend, asking “why are we meeting? We are not hiring anybody. Meeting just to hear how everyone else isn’t hiring anyone.”
She also added that she was on a team where all of the team members were new, and none of them were hiring anybody despite them being recruiters.
Maddie later shared in a follow up video that she got fired in the end by Meta, after posting a TikTok video about the company’s benefits package and it going viral.
Initially, her co-workers reached out to her and said that they loved her video but the company wasn’t pleased about it.
She claimed that she got a “write-up” for posting about how challenging her job is.
She said that she later stopped talking specifically about Meta, but they then went through about 20 of her TikTok videos and asked her if she thought it was “appropriate”.
Maddie then decided to quit but the next day she was fired.
@maddie_macho Replying to @laurendaniellehtx those were the days man. *sigh* #meta #layoffs #google #workingintech #metalayoffs ♬ original sound – Maddie | The Career Finesser
@maddie_macho Replying to @cassbass94 why I got fired at Meta #fired #meta #metalayoffs ♬ original sound – Maddie | The Career Finesser