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Riley Berton, a former Meta employee and Staff Software Engineer, in a post on LinkedIn wrote that he was fired from his job a day before bonus.
Why Was Riley Berton Fired?
According to Berton, who is the former Staff Software Engineer of Meta, he was fired from his job for sharing a company update with his wife, which was already in the public domain.
Berton’s termination, he claimed was “incredibly sad and terrible and so very very silly”.
Meta’s internal crackdown on information sharing has led to the unjustified removal of multiple employees, he added.
He had shared a part of a post by Mark Zuckerberg on Workplace, which is Meta’s internal work organization. This post was dated January 14.
“The contents of this post were about getting tougher on low performance review cycle. It is important to note that this i8nformation had been leaked to Business Insider and The Verge by someone (not me),” he further wrote in his LinkedIn post.
Riley Berton’s Justification
He confirmed that what he did do was to “share a portion of this post,” with his wife, adding that the timestamp on the BI post is right about the time that he had shared it with her.
Therefore, he establishes that he could not have been the one to leak said information and harmed the firm in any way.
He further added, “If she had read the post over my shoulder or if she took a photo of the post with her cellphone, I would not be writing this. If I took my laptop to a reporter and let them take a photo of the post, I would not be writing this.”
In fact, he had “just received an “Exceeds Expectations” rating” the previous year, and his termination date is the day before he was supposed to receive a bonus for “outstanding performance”.
The ‘violation’ took place on Jan 14th, as per his post, and the firing happened yesterday, so it took a few months for this to happen.
Many More In The Same Situation
Berton claims that there are hundreds of Meta employees that are in a similar situation where they have shared stressful work events with their partners and were fired for it.
Meta has currently not responded to any of Berton’s claims. However, a Meta spokesperson had earlier said that they send regular reminders to employees that leaking internal information irrespective of intention is against Meta policies.
