GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls

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GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls - Lemmy

Ah, modern slavery. Zero hours contracts should be banned.

should be poofed out of existence

This means something very specific in the UK.

You can't just drop that and then not explain....

Poof or puff or puffter are all derogatory terms for a gay man in England.

Soooo bummed to death

Not just to death

Out of existence

ya not a poofta are ya Bruce?
As a noun or adjective it would be a derogatory term for gay men. As a verb most people would recognise it as disappeared in the UK. There plenty of other terms for the verb.
Pretty sure they’re referring to “poof” which is a derogatory term for a gay man in British vernacular. In any case, the context in which it was used clearly wasn’t intended as the derogatory term, rather to mean “suddenly”.