“To Soham” (verb): to secretly work multiple full-time jobs, especially in tech startups, while maintaining the illusion of full commitment to each — often with masterful deception, cloned side projects, and elite-level time (mis)management.

🚨 Why This Petition?
We live in a time when new verbs are born from real-life legends. We Google things, we Zoom into meetings, we even ghost people. But there’s one 21st-century hustle that deserves linguistic recognition more than any other: sohamming.

This term is inspired by Soham Parekh, an infamous tech mercenary who reportedly juggled 4+ full-time startup jobs at once, collecting paychecks while contributing the bare minimum, often ghosting during product launches or sprints, only to vanish and repeat the same playbook elsewhere.

• “Soham Parekh crushed every interview with charisma, showed cloned side projects, and then moonlighted across YC-backed startups before disappearing mid-sprint.”
  — YCombinator Founder Warning Tweet (and similar VC posts)

Soham Parekh is not an isolated example or incident. The greedy tendency is rampant in the tech world and there are forums which openly talks about this. Such moves not only steal opportunities from the deserved, but also impact the honest and hardworking people negatively. By mocking such a tendency, it can also act as an eye opener or a deterrent to the wrong doers.

📚 Real Examples of "To Soham":

• A startup CTO wonders why the dev hasn’t pushed code in 10 days. Turns out he’s fixing bugs in another startup’s codebase during that time.
  → “He sohammed through the sprint.”
• An engineer accepts 5 remote roles in Web3, automates half the work, and quietly rotates Zoom backgrounds between meetings.
  → “Classic sohamming move.”
• A resume shows experience at 6 startups in a year — all with overlapping months.
  → “Did you soham your way into that LinkedIn profile?”

📺 Covered in the Media & Communities

• Reddit's r/Overemployed has endless tales of Sohamming, though they don't call it that—yet.
  r/Overemployed Threads
• X (formerly Twitter) exploded with memes, jokes, and outrage after founders discovered they had been Sohammed—simultaneously.
  Sample meme: “SpaceX lands on Mars, finds Soham already working on 6 monitors with VC calls on each.”
• Hardvard University parody profiles emerged, where Prof. Soham Parekh offers courses like “Advanced Ghosting 401” and “Startup Salary Stacking.”

🧠 Why It Deserves to Be a Verb
Sohamming isn’t just an act—it’s a movement. It reflects the gig economy's chaotic spirit, the blurred lines of remote work, and the very real challenges of trust in hiring today. Adding “Soham” to the dictionary isn’t just hilarious—it’s culturally relevant.

Much like “Rickrolling” captured internet prank culture, “Sohamming” captures the absurd hustle of 2020s tech life.

 
📢 Join Us
Let’s make Soham an official part of the English language. If “hangry”, “selfie”, and “adulting” made it, so can Soham.

Sign the petition. Share your favorite sohamming tale. And let the dictionary reflect the times we live in.

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