THEORY: Cobel is severed

Cobel is a strange character, the head of the severed floor but somehow powerless, and treated by all the higher ups as just another underling. She also worships Kier, and is the only unsevered character we see doing so without a trace of irony.

That is, assuming she is unsevered. I'm convinced otherwise.

I'm not suggesting she switches in the elevator like the others: we know for a fact she does not. Rather, I'm suggesting she is an innie 100% of the time, returing her original/outie persona instead. Her outie, the original Miss Cobel, would have signed some special contract to essentially erase her mind and replace it with someone else, to start fresh. A form of suicide that "isn't really" suicide. (Also possible: it was murder, severing her against her will.)

She has no life outside of work.

She lives next to Mark, an obscene level of dedication that is also clearly unhinged.

She worships Kier, as though he is the religious deity she was raised to believe in.

Her complete breakdown when she's fired makes sense either way, but takes on a new light with this theory.

She's overconfident about her standing at Lumon.

She doesn't care about anything else.

Now, the last part of the theory... At the end of S2E3, Helena puts Cobel in her place, then says, "Let's reset," and invites her to meet the Board. I, like many, am not convinced the Board has a physical form. I think Helena was lying about the Board... and slipped up with, "Let's reset." Cobel runs away because she realizes what was about to happen: they were going to reset her severed chip.

I didn't see anyone else posting about this when scrolling through, so figured I'd see if anyone else had the same thought.