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Comment by t1234s | Hacker News Reader

Any downside to DOGE canceling unused seats, software licenses or phone lines?

Depends on the contract. Anytime you do something fast and drastic, you fuck up, and those are often expensive.

As the saying goes, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

This looks more like they razed the chicken coop to make an omelette.

This too has the potential to lower your operating expenses.

Only until it's market day and you have no eggs too sell.

>"Making the mother of all omelettes, Jack! Can't fret over a few eggs"

Sadly, the competence and conviction of DOGE does not match the namesake of that quote. They do match the insanity, though.

Broken eggs being necessary but not sufficient. Very easy to break a bunch of eggs and not get an omelette, just a mess.

Careful! People have gotten in trouble for using that expression before. https://www-vilaweb-cat.translate.goog/noticies/linterrogato...

You dont have to smash the windows tho. And you dont have to spill eggs all over the carpet and walls.

The popular sayings are not an argument. They somt count as one.

Thing is, eggs also get broken when you drop a box of eggs on the floor. This is closer to that than to the omelette.

DOGE came in promising to trim $2T from the federal budget. After all its hack and slash, the government has spent $400B more than last year.

Don't make an omelette with bad eggs.

If you fire someone, you get to save on even more software licenses!