Who "the board" are, what they want and why they need blood donations, fertility/birthing centres and an underground severed floor.

"The board" are vampires. What they want is compliant livestock. Lumon have blood donating clinics (the milk), fertility/birthing centres (husbandry tanks) and an underground severance floor (control of their livestock). The Eagans are humans who pretend to run the company for PR reasons, they are the Façade of lumon.

Why I think this:

• Dario's (Italian MDR man) employee number is low 08-039, Irving’s is 08-454, Marks is 08-927, Dylan 08-979 and Helly is 08-988. It looks like the numbers go in chronological order. So he’s employee 39! Wow! So the question is how is he such an old employee yet look 20-30 years old? Amazing! We see Mark W and Gwendolyn enter the lumon building from the outside to the severance floor. We do not see Dario enter, so how does he get in, does he live there? I'm not saying Dario is "the board", I personally think he wants to escape. I think Dario is calling Irving on the payphone. but you have to ask yourself... is he a vampire?
• "Lumon" means light. The Severance/testing floors are underground with no windows or sunlight.
• The O&D/MDR painting “grim barbarity of optics and design” has a man eating another man. Burt said this painting never enters the hallways. why? because "the board" don't want people to know or think about who or what they are (vampires).
• The nurse collects blood (two bottles wow!) from Gemma in her daily routine. The nurse donates blood when she enters a room for Gemma. Think about it, it’s not physically possible to get your identity from a blood sample that small and an identity result that fast. The blood donation itself is the entry into the room.
• In S1E1 Helly asks Mark is "am I livestock?".
• Lots of fertility and baby symbolism throughout the show. Lumon care about birthing/fertility to maintain a steady supply of humans meaning a steady supply of blood.
• Anesthesia (The Diethyl ether factory) was how the vampires used to get their supply of blood. Think about it Diethyl ether is made from distillation, the vessels need closed lids in that process. In the painting of Imogen and Kier you see a vessel wide open meaning the fumes would go everywhere. You would only want this if you wanted people to be exposed to the fumes of diethyl ether!
• Cobels design of the severance chip was revolutionary to the vampires, this would mean complete control of the human population, way better/ beneficial for them especially if the severance barriers hold!
• Gemma moans when she sees the red dress to go to the dentist. She complains to the dentist that she was just here and gives him a look. They did not show us what happens to her however she is told it took 2 hours and she complains about a sore mouth. Was she getting dental work or was she getting blood removed from her mouth?
• Mark and Gemma meet donating blood at a lumon blood donation clinic. Maybe there's something in Marks or Gemmas blood that lumon (the vampires) are interested in?
• Rickens dinnerless dinner party. Does ricken have vampire friends?
• Rickens friend complaining at the book party that a bird keeps pecking at her head at night.
• Burt saying that he doesn't hurt people he just takes them to places S2E9.
• O&D cabinets looks like it was once a morgue. S2E5.
• Miss Haung said to Milchick "we shouldn't let them have a funeral because it will make them feel like humans". She says this because they are livestock. Drummond reminds milchick to treat them for who they really are. Milchick says he will "tighten the leash" at his job performance review.
• Kier/ Lumon have had a long past of trickery to lure people into lumon "the snake oil sales man" in cobels shrine. The promoting of the severance chip to people as "work life balance".
• Milchick saying to MDR at the ORTBO "lumon will always protect and provide" sounds like he is talking to a herd of sheep or something....