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They Named Their Companies Lumon. Then 'Severance' Aired
- impish9208 2y agoGift link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-named-their-companies-lumon-then-severance-aired-ca805442 https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-named-their-companies-lumo...
- 6stringmerc 2y agoReminds me of Integrated Solutions In Signaling over in the railroad industry…ISIS for short. It became quite the accidental liability. Their name changed via acquisition. https://rgpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/News-Release-Rio-Grande-Pacific-Technology-acquisition-of-Innovative-Solutions-in-Signaling-002.pdf https://rgpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/News-Release-Rio...
- sillywalk 2y agoOr ISIS from the TV Show Archer.
- gabrielsroka 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds vs AIDS
- rsynnott 2y agoThere are/were also a number of companies and organisations called Isis/ISIS.
- jfengel 2y ago“My husband was like, ‘We need to capitalize on this now,’” said Dr. Monisha Chadda, the owner of Lumon Dental, a dentist outside of Detroit. That could be fraught. [Spoiler follows]: Dentistry is an element of Severance -- as a form of torture.
- rsynnott 2y agoHuh. I just assumed that they’d have chosen a name that no-one else had… (There’s an office building called Lumen round the corner from my house; it contains an aircraft leasing company, which is about the most boring possible thing that macrodata refinement could be.)