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What's with all the tech layoffs? (infosec.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by HanDman@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Every day there’s more big job cuts at tech and games companies. I’ve not seen anything explaining why they all seam to be at once like this. Is it coincidence or is there something driving all the job cuts?

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

eggs?

[–] sillypuddy@mander.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

I read it as an allusion to the price of everything going up. But yes, eggs.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

eggs?

Eggs.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Weirdly, my first thought was eggs as in trans people who don't know it yet. I really didn't expect eggs in the literal meaning in that sentence...

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is that a real metaphor that people use? I've never heard of it referring to trans people before. But that's not my community.

[–] Jaxle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah! We use it to lovingly refer to those of us who haven't come out to ourselves yet. Their shells haven't cracked yet.

The memes out of egg_irl are pretty fire if queer memes are your thing

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

The memes out of egg_irl are pretty fire if queer memes are your thing

I'm a cis-(mostly)het guy and absolutely agree. I get a special kind of joy from people discovering themselves and being accepted.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Yes it is. For example, /r/egg_irl was a fairly popular subreddit.