Michael Scott, manager on NBC's "The Office", played by Steve Carell, comes off as a crude, insensitive, diva whose inability to chill out is fueled by his insecurity and social ineptitude. His lack of a college degree adds to his inferiority complex.

Bing might characterize Scott's antics as characteristic of '"the paranoid boss." "The politics of the workplace function to heighten paranoia in even normal people, and the damaged, fragile crazy boss is ill-equipped to establish any kind of equilibrium," Bing wrote.