How I Met Your Mother: The Chain of Screaming

After Marshall is verbally emasculated by his boss, he struggles with the fact that taking a job with a "big bad" corporate law firm may have been a major mistake. Barney introduces his concept of the scream pyramid in which Marshall can take solace by passing down the abuse to soemone beneath his stature, but it ends up falling on deaf ears and he loses his job after snapping back at his boss.