Former Meta employee shares how she was paid Rs 1.5 crore salary 'to do nothing'

A Meta worker these days discovered that she slightly had some thing to do at some point of her six-month stint on the organization whilst raking in an annual earnings of $190,000 (approximately Rs 1.five crore).

Madelyn Machado, a former recruiter at Meta, went viral on TikTok after she defined how the group of workers had not anything to do, specially withinside the recruiting space. In the video titled `Getting paid $190K to do not anything at Meta,' she knowledgeable her visitors that the tech large's technique to work 'blew my mind' and she "did not do sh**" at some point of her six-month stint on the organization, Daily Mail reported.

Machado defined that notwithstanding being a recruiter or an HR staffer, she become informed through her bosses she wasn't predicted to do this at some point of her preliminary months at Meta. "We weren`t predicted to lease all and sundry for the primary six months, even the primary year. This is some thing they let you know whilst you start," she stated withinside the video.

But, Machado's plans to "journey this out for a year" did now no longer exercise session as she labored for the tech large from September 2021 till February 2022 in step with her LinkedIn profile.

After her video went viral, Machado claimed that she acquired a few backlash from human beings calling her lazy and "skating thru life". She then uploaded any other video and shared a notice on LinkedIn to clean the air.

"I published a video, that has long gone viral on the incorrect aspect of TikTok. Where I said in my six months at Meta, I wasn`t predicted to lease everybody and I didn`t do some thing apart from study for the primary six months," she shared on LinkedIn.

Earlier this month, Meta introduced its 2d spherical of layoffs to effect 10,000 employees. This comes months after the tech large reduce off 11,000 jobs as a part of a much wider restructuring.