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A Real Manager Gives Lumon a Performance Review
Ask a Manager’s Alison Green breaks down Severance’s twisted approach to employee relations.
A new viewer to the series, she watched the pilot and its follow-ups, “ Half-Loop ” and “ In Perpetuity,” and a host of clips through to this week’s “ Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig.” Green could have a bright future in Macrodata Refinement, because all of Lumon’s scariest numbers jumped right out at her. The series exaggerates some of the worst aspects of typical corporate environments, but Green admires how it surfaces and interrogates “how deeply dysfunctional a lot of those dynamics are. When Helly wakes up on that table and she’s terrified, Mark isn’t even acknowledging her fear, he’s just delivering those survey questions in the very perky corporate tone of the script.
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