Trying to get ahead in WWE by impressing Vince McMahon didn't always lead to promotions and salary raises. In fact, some of these positions that were being jockeyed for ended up having people turn on each other in order to benefit themselves. One former writer even described the writers room culture in WWE as being "mafia style" when it came to its leadership, 

"If you do one thing, you're p*ssing off three other people who are higher up than you who are going to chew you out, get angry, or seek revenge." All of this led to a very odd, and unsettling experience while being in the writers room. 

"I couldn't understand what the hell was going on because nobody made eye contact, nobody talked to you. It was so odd," another former writer said. "Everybody's scared and the only laughs are at someone else's expense. Everybody is emotionally shut down because of the verbal beating that they take and the humiliation. That's what the room is like with a bad leader."

WWE representatives were contacted for comments on these stories, but there was no response. However, a spokesperson for McMahon responded by saying that the accounts being recalled are far from what actually goes on in a WWE writers meeting. "Scores of writers could share tales of what an enjoyable, creative, and freewheeling environment the WWE writers rooms were. This handful of [obviously disgruntled] individuals aren't representative in any way of the consensus, or of the truth."

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