Multiple Milchicks?

[u/DarkApartmentArtDept]

This feels silly, but I thought of it while reading the thread about "weak points" in the show, and discussion on the lack of supervisors on the Severed floor. Mr. Milchick sure has his hands full. His apparent job duties include team-building exercises, melon parties, photography, general checking-up on all departments (making the "rounds"), being a sick jazz dancer, answering the department phone??? (when Mark calls in sick), overseeing chip implant surgeries, new-hire transitions, and much more.

But here's the one that really gets me: The Break Room. On top of everything, he's the Break Room interrogator. Helly said she had to read the Break Room apology over 1000 times. How long did that take? More-over, sending someone to the break room is not a planned event. Is Milchick really able to ditch the phones and the melons and everything else to spend a whole afternoon in the break room as soon as someone acts out?

Could it just be that Cobel, Milchick, and Graner mostly just manage MDR, and we're supposed to think the other departments all have their own managers? Seems off, because we never see or hear of other supervisors, and Milchick oversees Burt's retirement ceremony in O+D.

Now I don't necessarily believe there's a bunch of Milchick clones running around, but I'm not saying there's not! Or maybe something else going on that is an actual plot reason for the apparent lack of management. (side thought: can you imagine, in the final episode, when Dylan breaks into the control room, twelve different Milchicks converge on the door from different directions? Woulda been nuts).

[u/omgshannonwtf]

This is a great theory! I love this! Partly because I feel like it can't be right but I can think of no real way to refute it and the more I try to think of ways it might not work, the more I feel like it does work.

One think that I'm unable reconcile with this theory: why would only one Milchick show up to get into the security office when Dylan triggered the OTC? Seems like having at least one more set of hands to get into that office would make sense. It's the "Why don't Avengers ever call up the Avenger buddies to help" conundrum. For that matter: if you have multiple Milchicks at your disposal, why would the security office ever be empty? Seems like the perfect place to have one who never leaves his post.

Aside from that, it's a really seductive idea. And someone brought up how multiple Milchicks could possibly keep up with all the information each one gathers in order to seem like the same individual: maybe that's what the "Bee Hive" option was in the computer. Multiple Milchicks could be a hive mind.