Why is the goat department 6 people and MDR 4 then?
I mean it is a piece of entertainment, not a documentary or scientific experience (both of which are also subject to performing towards people’s preferences anyway).
You’d prefer that the Sci fi about having a switch that can turn you into multiple people based on a religious cult in a universe which is both simultaneously more advanced but uses older aesthetics than ours be more realistic to how normal offices work?
You’d prefer that the Sci fi about having a switch that can turn you into multiple people based on a religious cult in a universe which is both simultaneously more advanced but uses older aesthetics than ours be more realistic to how normal offices work?
Yes, that is literally the core concept of the show.
They have a giant underground museum that is used to reward employees with waffles and sex, and an indoor field to raise goats for ritual sacrifice, the marching band is probably cheaper and easier to organize than either, let alone both.
Everything about Lumon staffing has been minimal though. The staff in every department feel too small for the size of the space they’re in.
Just like from a managerial and reporting standpoint, how many direct managers does the marching band department have? And why are they all equally as primed to revolt as MDR?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.
It’s fine not to know that such a subtext exists, I also didn’t know when I first saw the scene - but maybe try reading up instead of just assuming that there’s no sense to what you’re seeing?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Just because it makes sense with one character’s arc, doesn’t meant it makes sense in the broader context of the show.
There are lots of ways a writer could have written the conclusion to that character arc for Milchick didn’t require suddenly establishing not just a full department, but the biggest department we’ve seen at the company by far, consisting entirely of marching band players that are apparently very practiced.