In England, your manager is like a boss.
I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.
In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.
Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.
What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.
I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.
When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
