Corporate Memo
The official explanation, translated out of the language it was written in to avoid saying anything.
Meta Fired About Two Dozen Los Angeles Employees in October 2024 for Misusing $25 Meal Credits. One of Them Reportedly Earned $400,000 a Year and Had Spent the Credits on Toothpaste and Tea.
At its large campuses Meta feeds its staff for free, in cafeterias, three times a day. Its smaller offices have no cafeterias, so the company gave employees there the next best thing: a daily allowance on food delivery apps such as Grubhub and Uber Eats. Twenty dollars for breakfast, twenty-
Kickstarter Gave Employees Unlimited Vacation. They Started Taking Less.
Kickstarter once offered its employees unlimited vacation — no cap, no tracking, take what you need. In September 2015, the company admitted the policy had backfired so thoroughly that it replaced "unlimited" with a mandatory minimum. The problem with infinite vacation, it turns out, is that nobody can tell
Battlefield 6 Sold 7 Million Copies in Three Days. Four Months Later, EA Laid Off the Studios That Made It.
Battlefield 6 sold seven million copies in three days. It was the biggest launch in the franchise's history, the best-selling premium video game of 2025, and by every metric EA uses to justify a bonus, an unambiguous win. Four months later, EA laid off staff across all four studios that built it.
Bolt Gave Employees Unlimited Vacation for 11 Years. Its CEO Says the Best Workers Never Used It.
Bolt, a San Francisco checkout fintech, offered its roughly 130 remote employees unlimited paid time off from the company's 2014 founding — no accrual, no cap, take what you need. Eleven years later, CEO Ryan Breslow killed it, and his explanation doubled as a confession: the policy hadn'
WeWork's Free Beer Was Unlimited Until the Company Needed Money More Than It Needed Culture
The kegerators were never really about the beer. Once the IPO collapsed, neither was the culture.
Your Amex Platinum Used to Get You Into Any Delta Sky Club, Any Time. That Ended February 1.
Unlimited lounge access became 10 visits a year, because enough people used it exactly as advertised.
Airport Lounges Restrict Guest Access After Visits Jump 31% in a Year
Everyone got a lounge access card. Nobody built more lounges. Do the math, then read the new rules.
'Unlimited' Data Plans Get an Asterisk for the Heaviest Users
Carriers still call it unlimited. They've just quietly agreed on how much unlimited actually means.