how could you possibly keep magic a secret? and why would you ever expect to? people would bump against it in a million different ways.

it has lib undertones of like. oh if everyone knew the terrible truth, the government would do something about it. humanity would go to war against the witches or whatever. this kind of makes me laugh. what governments are you aware of? personally i would love to see the trump administration attempt to handle the interview guys and i think it's a failure of the show to not address this in some way

seems to come from a desire to have the fiction universe be functionally identical to the author's ideas of the "real" universe + [magical element]. but that's a very small-scale approach. i read somewhere (no doubt a massive oversimplification) that ghost stories really took off after the civil war because so many people died away from home and their families never received closure, but like ... that's basically everyone in the interview universe. so how would that impact people of various social, political, cultural groups? or maybe it's like, okay, people disappear all the time, so what? get back to work. greasing the wheels of capitalism or whatnot

let me give you an example. again. i worked crazy hours to meet this deadline. she (and the other various stakeholders involved in this highly scrutinized process) were like wow! i can't believe you met this deadline! thank you! like you guys didn't give me the deadline. i had to meet it. what?

the following day, she calls me because she can't figure out how to log into a website to look at last year's [x]. a task she had done successfully three days before. like every single office ever, all the links and passwords are stored in a word document anyone can access. so what could possibly be the issue here

over the course of a fifteen minute phone call:

it turned out she was trying to log into the wrong website

it turned out she was trying to log in with HER email, not mine

i guess her web browser automatically suggested one of those super secure passwords and she just assumed that was the password instead of the password in the password document

copied and pasted the correct password instead of retyping it

finally logged in by typing my email and the password she's had the whole time

"ok, you want to click the link for the 2025 project. it's on the left side of the screen, it says 2025. then click 'documents.' Then scroll through the documents until you find [x]."

Couldn't do it

Told her to share her screen

Dead center of the page, "documents," right under it the exact thing she was looking for. she just couldn't read it or something

i think the reason this took FIFTEEN MINUTES is because she said "i'll just see if i can figure this out and i'll ping you if i can't find it" (i.e., wait 10 minutes, then tell me to do it) and i said "no, do it in front of me" and that flustered her. maybe that was cruel to say but im obviously at my wits end here. and tbh the best thing about my workplace is that you can be visibly irritated with her bc what's she going to do. figure out how to log into something herself?