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A different version of yourself at workīrancaccio: Well, at some level we encourage managers to disconnect between their personal selves and their work selves. So I think sometimes, on a day-to-day basis, I would do it. Hell yes.” You know, sometimes you’re just walking into work and it’s so daunting, the idea of going in and spending eight hours in a particular place. But on a day-to-day basis, there have definitely been days where they’re like, “Hey, do you want to sever today?” And I’d be like, “Yes. I always say that I wouldn’t get the surgery, like I wouldn’t let them put the chip in my head. A little, I don’t know, disassociation.Įrickson: Yeah, it’s funny.
So that was quite a week.īrancaccio: It’s that sort of situation, right? Where you’re doing this work, which may or may not be ennobling at the moment, but if you just get through to the end of the day, and that’s when you could use a little severance in your life. So that happened like two days before we had the meeting, or I had the Ben meeting. And all of a sudden I look back and it’s just gone flying off the back of my scooter and has been run over by a car. And just this giant order that I had been driving - I was almost at the place and I was already really late. And I had rigged this thing on the back to carry food around. I had a little scooter, like a Vespa-style scooter.
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I was like their worst driver in Los Angeles, I think. I was driving for Postmates and I was terrible at it. And they sort of started to build this image of this weird, monolithic company that I wanted to tell the story about.īrancaccio: I mean, I was reading that even at an advanced stage of this project, when you first learn that Ben Stiller himself might be interested - or at least you get the meeting - is it true you were driving for Postmates at that point?Įrickson: It’s true.
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It was a series of temp jobs that I had while I was working on the script nine, 10 years ago, and I just started to notice a lot of these these same, these weird “corporate-isms” that would that would come through in each of the jobs. No, it was a series of - you know, I don’t think I ever had a job that was particularly nightmarish compared to anybody else’s job. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.ĭavid Brancaccio: Dan, what did somebody ever do to you, in an office setting, that led you to tell this tale?ĭan Erickson: So much, so much. That’s where we start with “Severance.” Dan Erickson, the show’s creator, showrunner and head writer, joins “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio to delve in. Would you do it? At what cost? And what if you happened to work for some shady, exploitative megacorporation? You’re completely unaware of what happens inside the office. So you become a work self who can’t remember what life outside of the job is like and a home self who has no memory of life at work. Here’s the premise: Suppose you could sign up for a medical procedure that put a tiny implant in your brain which splits up your everyday life into two parts, your work life and your home life, and neither self can remember the other.
Instead of a film, we invite you watch along for nine episodes of a show: “ Severance,” which is available for streaming on Apple TV+.
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(You can sign up for our free newsletter here!)įor the month of July, we’re taking a detour through the world of television drama. Our Econ Extra Credit: Documentary Studies series usually features one film a month, on a Marketplace theme, that we watch and analyze with our audience.