Yeah -- I thought it meant something along the lines of "for example" or "one instance being"?
"We had to come up with some way to cut our burn rate, e.g. lay off (i.e. fire) some of our workforce; cut facilities (i.e. get out of our leases),..."
As an aside, I wish there were "minor aside" conversations that wouldn't pollute the main thread so I could respond without occupying massive comment-space.
"We had to come up with some way to cut our burn rate, e.g., lay off (i.e., fire) some of our workforce; cut facilities (i.e., get out of our leases),..."
The reasoning being that these expressions are "parenthetic and should be punctuated accordingly" The Elements of Style
exempli gratia (e.g.) = for the sake of example, for example
Coincidentally, I had years of Latin so I knew those, but thought this had some other contextual meaning, a name of something (like IE for Internet Explorer). Apparently not!
i.e. -> in other words
i.e. -> the other one