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    George K
    wrote on 15 Apr 2022, 20:20 last edited by
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    Apple TV+ show with a fascinating premise.

    "Lumon" is a mysterious company that does...we don't know after 3 episodes what it does. It's employees once they agree to work for the company undergo a "severance" procedure which completely isolates their work memories from their home memories. IOW, when you're at work, you don't remember any family, friends, birthdays, etc. Conversely, when you leave the building, and ascend in the elevator, your work memories disappear, and you interact with "the outside" as you always did. It's totally voluntary, but it seems that "getting out" is...complicated.

    Link to video

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • G George K
      15 Apr 2022, 20:20

      Apple TV+ show with a fascinating premise.

      "Lumon" is a mysterious company that does...we don't know after 3 episodes what it does. It's employees once they agree to work for the company undergo a "severance" procedure which completely isolates their work memories from their home memories. IOW, when you're at work, you don't remember any family, friends, birthdays, etc. Conversely, when you leave the building, and ascend in the elevator, your work memories disappear, and you interact with "the outside" as you always did. It's totally voluntary, but it seems that "getting out" is...complicated.

      Link to video

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      89th
      wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 12:36 last edited by
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      @George-K wow that looks pretty good!

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      • 8 89th
        16 Apr 2022, 12:36

        @George-K wow that looks pretty good!

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        George K
        wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 12:45 last edited by George K
        #3

        @89th it def has a "Black Mirror" vibe to it.

        Check the opening title:

        Link to video

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          89th
          wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 18:00 last edited by
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          What is black mirror? Yes I could Google

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            jodi
            wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 18:58 last edited by
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            The ability to do that would probably lower Mr. Jodi’s stress levels, lol.

            I don’t get Apple TV, but I just watched the first episode of the “supernatural/thriller/western” Outer Range. (Amazon prime) Not sure if I like it yet.

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              16 Apr 2022, 18:00

              What is black mirror? Yes I could Google

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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 20:46 last edited by
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              @89th said in "Severance":

              What is black mirror? Yes I could Google

              Dude.

              Please love yourself.

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              • A Aqua Letifer
                16 Apr 2022, 20:46

                @89th said in "Severance":

                What is black mirror? Yes I could Google

                Dude.

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                George K
                wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 21:48 last edited by
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                @Aqua-Letifer said in "Severance":

                @89th said in "Severance":

                What is black mirror? Yes I could Google

                Dude.

                He's too busy makin' babies and moving.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • J jodi
                  16 Apr 2022, 18:58

                  The ability to do that would probably lower Mr. Jodi’s stress levels, lol.

                  I don’t get Apple TV, but I just watched the first episode of the “supernatural/thriller/western” Outer Range. (Amazon prime) Not sure if I like it yet.

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                  Jolly
                  wrote on 16 Apr 2022, 22:20 last edited by
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                  @jodi said in "Severance":

                  The ability to do that would probably lower Mr. Jodi’s stress levels, lol.

                  I don’t get Apple TV, but I just watched the first episode of the “supernatural/thriller/western” Outer Range. (Amazon prime) Not sure if I like it yet.

                  Just as an aside, job time should have a cutoff. It's different times for different people, but in no way should it impinge on your days off or past a certain reasonable hour at night. On work time, stress is inevitable. On an individual's time, work stress should not intrude.

                  I worked last Sunday. I had a surgeon chewing my ear off as he was trying to get into surgery before a GI bleeder crapped out on him. I'm wiping out every A neg I've got on the shelf, eyeing how many O negs I have (while knowing I'm not going to give the surgeon every one of them) and trying to squeeze some more A negs out of the blood center. I'm also ticking off units and deciding on Plan B...If the guy is blowing out blood that fast, I'll swap him to A pos and likely sensitize him, but if I'm lucky, I can get him back on A neg before life really goes South.

                  When I walked out the back door at the end of my day, I trash canned all that stuff and didn't think about it until the next morning. You have to turn the spigot off or a job will run you nuts.

                  Maybe Mr. Jodi needs to work on turning the spigot off...

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • J Jolly
                    16 Apr 2022, 22:20

                    @jodi said in "Severance":

                    The ability to do that would probably lower Mr. Jodi’s stress levels, lol.

                    I don’t get Apple TV, but I just watched the first episode of the “supernatural/thriller/western” Outer Range. (Amazon prime) Not sure if I like it yet.

                    Just as an aside, job time should have a cutoff. It's different times for different people, but in no way should it impinge on your days off or past a certain reasonable hour at night. On work time, stress is inevitable. On an individual's time, work stress should not intrude.

                    I worked last Sunday. I had a surgeon chewing my ear off as he was trying to get into surgery before a GI bleeder crapped out on him. I'm wiping out every A neg I've got on the shelf, eyeing how many O negs I have (while knowing I'm not going to give the surgeon every one of them) and trying to squeeze some more A negs out of the blood center. I'm also ticking off units and deciding on Plan B...If the guy is blowing out blood that fast, I'll swap him to A pos and likely sensitize him, but if I'm lucky, I can get him back on A neg before life really goes South.

                    When I walked out the back door at the end of my day, I trash canned all that stuff and didn't think about it until the next morning. You have to turn the spigot off or a job will run you nuts.

                    Maybe Mr. Jodi needs to work on turning the spigot off...

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                    jodi
                    wrote on 17 Apr 2022, 00:20 last edited by jodi
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                    @Jolly Yes, I keep telling him that - though his job often comes with after hours texts and things. He does a lot of fishing and biking and skiing as often as he can, and that helps - What he really needs to do is retire!

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                    • J jodi
                      17 Apr 2022, 00:20

                      @Jolly Yes, I keep telling him that - though his job often comes with after hours texts and things. He does a lot of fishing and biking and skiing as often as he can, and that helps - What he really needs to do is retire!

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                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on 17 Apr 2022, 00:26 last edited by
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                      @jodi said in "Severance":

                      @Jolly Yes, I keep telling him that - though his job often comes with after hours texts and things. He does a lot of fishing and biking and skiing as often as he can, and that helps - What he really needs to do is retire!

                      Does he answer because other people think it's important, or does he answer because it's actually important?

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • A Aqua Letifer
                        17 Apr 2022, 00:26

                        @jodi said in "Severance":

                        @Jolly Yes, I keep telling him that - though his job often comes with after hours texts and things. He does a lot of fishing and biking and skiing as often as he can, and that helps - What he really needs to do is retire!

                        Does he answer because other people think it's important, or does he answer because it's actually important?

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                        jodi
                        wrote on 17 Apr 2022, 00:31 last edited by
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                        @Aqua-Letifer It’s usually important. When he goes on vacation he takes a break, usually. And out here his “vacations” are often out of cell service anyway, lol.

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                          taiwan_girl
                          wrote on 17 Apr 2022, 01:25 last edited by taiwan_girl
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                          I think with emails/texts, etc, it becomes "self fulfilling". I usually answer emails/texts quite quicklly, so people expect to happen.

                          In my opinion, very few jobs are such that if you do not answer after hours until the next morning, next day, etc will the world come to an end.

                          "I sent taiwan_girl a text and she hasnt answered yet!!! I need an answer!!"

                          "What will happen if you dont hear back in the next hour, etc? What is so critical that it is unable to wait for a bit? What will you do?"

                          "Well, I guess I will wait to here from her tomorrow morning."

                          (Yes of course some jobs require immediate feedback. But the world seemed to survive for many years when people were away from their desk and uncontactable.

                          It is a bit easy now to "defer" decisions when you can text someone when something important comes up. Sometimes I think it would better to not be able to contact someone so that you would have to make a decision and learn from it)

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                            Jolly
                            wrote on 17 Apr 2022, 03:58 last edited by
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                            Texts?

                            Unless it's my wife or kids, I check them a couple of times a day. Other than that, if it's truly important, call me.

                            Rarely is anything truly important.

                            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                              bachophile
                              wrote on 11 Jan 2025, 19:43 last edited by
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                              Season 2 January 17

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                                George K
                                wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 01:20 last edited by
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                                I'll have to re-watch season 1 - it's been so long.

                                As an aside, for shows like this, or "Silo," I prefer to wait until all the episodes have been released and binge through all of them in a matter of days (at 1.25 speed, and subtitles, of course).

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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