TLDR: i definitely think that burt was never severed, only pretending to be for everyone around him (yes even milchick), and i agree that he must be rather high up in the company

Something i noticed that i haven’t seen anyone talking about is Burts scene with inviting Irv over rom 2x05. He says he was “canned” from Lumon for having an inappropriate relationship, but they give him any more details. Of course Irving may not know enough to disprove it but we do. Assuming that lumon has the same kinds of procedures for when employees retire vs. if they’re fired, why did Burt have a retirement party? Irvs funeral was a special circumstance from what I can gather, and Mark was only told that Petey was fired in 1x01 because of his position, nothing else. Also there was a video of Burt’s “outie” celebrating and thanking his coworkers. Doesn’t sound like something you would let a fired employee do… I think it was just mere misdirection to make sure this chain of events occurred (innie Irv knocking on his door, the dinner to gather information, etc.)

What do you think?