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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Rough Translation from NPR. |
0:03.1 | Who of us is not fantasized about leaving work, fully at work? |
0:07.5 | Having the freedom not to worry about that email or that boss |
0:10.6 | when you're spending time with family or friends? |
0:13.2 | There's this show on Apple TV Plus called Severance. |
0:16.0 | You might have heard of it. |
0:17.0 | So I'll never leave here. |
0:19.0 | You'll leave it, five. |
0:20.3 | It takes that fantasy to a kind of terrifying extreme. |
0:23.8 | But it won't feel like it, not to this version of the guy anyway. |
0:27.0 | The premise of the show is that a company called Lumen |
0:29.1 | has found ways to let employees surgically separate |
0:32.3 | their work memories from their outside work memories. |
0:35.0 | Do you have a family? |
0:36.6 | You'll never know. |
0:37.6 | This is a voluntary procedure. |
0:39.6 | Well, every time you find yourself here, |
0:42.0 | it's because you chose to come back. |
0:44.6 | So their Audi or their outside work self |
0:47.1 | has no idea what they do at work all day. |
0:49.9 | And their Inny has no clue how they spend their free time. |
0:53.1 | I have no choice. |
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