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Fmr Meta Recruiter Says She Got Paid $190K to do Nothing

As Meta continues another round of devastating layoffs, one former recruiter for the company is sharing her bizarre time as an employee.

The former employee, Maddie (@maddie_macho on TikTok) says that she was paid $190,000 a year to do nothing.

While she was herself a new hire, the company wasn’t hiring during her initial time there – so there was nothing to do. “We weren’t expected to hire anybody for the first six months, even the first year. That really blew my mind. Like ‘perfect, I’m just going to ride this out for a year. Obviously I didn’t make that.'”

The way she spent her time, earning that money? “Learning.”

And, apparently, going to meetings. “But the most that we did, this is the crazy part, is we had so many team meetings. Why are we meeting? We’re not hiring nobody. Just to hear how everyone else isn’t hiring anybody. And also, I was on a team where everyone was new, so none of us were hiring anybody.”

Maddie eventually quit before she could be fired after Meta started looking into some of her TikTok videos which were critical of the company.