I’ve been watching the Apple TV program, Severance. In a nutshell, it’s about employees who have opted to accept a medical procedure that creates a work personality that is only ‘awake’ while at work, remembering nothing of their personal lives and their personal persona knowing nothing about what they do at work. I find this show absolutely captivating. Not only is the acting and staging great, but the camera work is top-notch. However…

I find that Severance hits too close to home in corporate environments. The sinister smiling, the infantile treating of employees and the willful ignorance to the conditions and well-being of the employees. They’re all too real. Often, I wonder if having a “severed” personality would be useful to me. I know that it creates far more problems than it solves, but damn if I wouldn’t want to forget the 8-hour-morass of work that leaves me no better than I was going into it.

I hate everything. No, I don’t hate. I just don’t care.