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.

In an internal memo to employees on Friday, Zuckerberg attempted to lift their spirits in what appears to be a notable failure to read the room. Specifically, the billionaire promised to host a companywide AI hackathon in July — only to get brutally shut down by workers who were in no mood for such a thing.

Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become. Many employees at Meta have been working from "hot desks," a controversial scheme involving multiple workers sharing the same desks.

I mean, I know everyone needs to have a job, but meta wouldn't be a thing if people didn't choose to go work there.

That one long tracker link in the url.