Working as a freelancer at a highly respected production company in Los Angeles, I was assigned to various projects, as needed. The department wasnt managed well, which meant, I was often running around with my head cut-off due to a lack to effective and efficient decision making. The head our department was really good at the job creatively, however was having difficulty with the business and administrative demands of the position. Those difficulties quickly compounded when the third person in our department took maternity leave and many of her responsibilities began to fall through the cracks. Everything soon came to a head when I showed-up for work the following Monday to learn that the department head had been terminated, leaving me the sole person left in production. As an...