Boss hit me with the news like a box-cutter under the jaw
Said "they just had a meeting and about 3 hundred
Of y'all gettin fired cuz we been defunded"

from Phonte – The Good Fight Lyrics on Rap Genius

The company is down-sizing so a lot of people are getting fired. The news was equivalent of someone slicing his jugular vein open.

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