thebitterguy

No fucking shit.

Unlike most sitcom show runners, Lorre takes a "hands on" approach to writing each episode. Even though the show has a staff of writers, he doesn't trust their talent or expertise and instead writes every episode in the "writers room." And rather than give individual writers credit on episodes (and appropriate residuals, or royalties) he and his co-show-runners put their names on every script, guaranteeing them more money than their already exorbitant executive producer salaries.

Lorre has been regularly despised and feared by his production staffs for years, and continues to intimidate the people who work for him as well as the networks and production companies who employ him, in order to compensate for his own insecurities.

"Regularly despised and feared"? Wow. I can totally see the creator of Dharma and Greg as a tyrant.