It was sometime around 1998 and I was sitting in the HR office waiting to find out my fate. My job and, for all intents and purposes, my career in television were at stake. The reason all this was happening was because one (or more) of my employees had lodged a complaint, stating that I had consistently demeaned the writers and producers in my department, particularly with my unduly harsh and, at times, abusive, critique of their scripts.
