• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    The part about Severance that is paradoxically easy to miss it is so central to the show is that it is a mirror to the everyday inhumanity of modern business culture especially when there is no counterbalancing force like unions to moderate the insanity of what the people at the top want.

    Severance makes the point over and over again how tragic and meaningless it is that people develop relationships sometimes over decades in organizations and yet have no power over when one day someone is essentially obliterated from their lives and their place in that organization and nobody can talk about it on an emotional level… leaving the fired individual also feeling like they have lost a part of themselves in a discontinous and disjointed manner.

    “I’ve participated in previous hackathons, but this no longer feels like an option alongside pod sprints in my corner of the company,” one worker wrote.

    What a sentence.

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      15 hours ago

      What even is a pod sprint? I know all those words, but I’m not used to them going together like that.