What Are Lumon's Nine Core Principles in 'Severance'?
In Severance's latest episode, we learn that Cobel's aunt Sissy still "lives by the Nine," but what exactly are the Nine Core Principles?
Depending on the company, sometimes working for a big company may feel like being in a cult, with workers having to cater to their bosses' egos and perform work that isn't all that meaningful or that they don't even understand. Severance draws a lot from this idea, and Lumon Industries is the ultimate corporate leviathan in that sense. In Season 2's eighth episode, "Sweet Vitriol," we learn just how deeply Lumon has affected the town of Salt's Neck, with people still living by their rules even after losing everything and everyone, like Harmony Cobel's (Patricia Arquette) aunt Sissy (Jane Alexander). As Harmony's friend Hampton (James Le Gros) notes, Sissy "still lives by the Nine," meaning she still religiously follows the rules she learned when working at the local Lumon ether mill. But what exactly are "the Nine"?
