Co-creator and writer on "The Office" Greg Daniels once told her she could go home if she was going to keep resisting him, Kaling says. "My very nice boss had just hugely reprimanded me," she writes. "No one looked at me. People pretended to be absorbed in their phones. One writer didn't even have a phone, so he just pretended to be absorbed in his hand."
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