According to The New York Times, Schneider was an unquestionable hitmaker who had a flip side in that he would often flip out and resort to verbal abuse.
While Schneider perceived himself as a person with high standards and "very willing to defend" his creative choices, his colleagues described him as a difficult person to work with.
Apparently, he was also controlling, prone to tantrums and angry emails regardless of work hours. Allegedly, he frequently asked an employee from the costume department for shoulder and neck massages.
Before he was let go by the network, they had conducted an internal investigation which led to the conclusion that his attention to detail was praiseworthy, but the means by which those details were attained, not so much.
Naturally, the network chose to do the right thing and let him go with seven million dollars still owed in his contract.
