S/O Kelly and being noified of news at your work

While it may not have been handled the way she wanted it to, neither Michael or ABC had to tell her anything. He is searching for a new job, he didn't have to tell his co-worker. ABC is looking to hire someone, they don't have to tell her. Put aside the emotion of it, and it boils down to someone looking for work, and an employer looking for new hires. A normal company would NOT share this info with other employees. And the warning to her is the fact that he said he's staying until September, so technically she's been warned, and her employer knows to look for someone else by that time.

All that aside, maybe a little conversation from Michael to Kelly would have been nice...but maybe they don't like each other , so he didn't want to say anything? We'll never know for sure. But I thought I also heard that when Regis left she only found out 15 minutes before it went public too.

There was a tv station (Hamilton ch. 11) that recently went either into receivership (?) and none of the staff knew of the news until it was announced 'LIVE'. A shock to everyone. The station is still on the air but is like a cable station.  This is in Canada and there are CRTC rules. 

The other teacher in my department would give me the heads up, maybe even before they told admin. I would do the same. We work closely and rely on each other.

If she was being let go, I would not expect a heads up

We recently had 3 top level execs that were let go on the same day. We were told about an hour after they were walked out of the building, before it hit industry news. A sibling of one works at our company. She was told an hour prior so that she could work from home and not have to be there for the big announcement. I thought that was nice at least.

I know it's all the same company, but if you break it down to the simplicity of a person looking for a job, or being offered a job, and a company looking to hire, she didn't actually have the right to know along the way. It just makes the whole thing a blurred line that he's leaving one job and taking a new job all within the same company. But people do that all the time in the real world.

Regarding whether Michael should have told Kelly in advance...I heard that the head of Disney asked Michael not to say anything. It does seem that Kelly would not have taken the news well, so I don't blame him for not saying anything, especially since he is staying with the same company.

Now, I do think that Kelly should have been told in advance by her superiors. As others have said, he was a co-host with her on a national show. A little different than an average coworker, in my opinion.

I simply don't think you can compare what happens in a normal 9-5 job to what the situation is with that show.

I'd be pissed too if I were her. In the end though, it's a TV show I don't watch so it's no skin off my teeth, so to speak.

He's leaving May 15.

Taking the summer off.

Generally if someone is leaving on good terms, staff would be notified via email that the person is leaving and when their last day will be. If a loan officer or management gives notice, they are usually asked to leave that day (theoretically it's to protect against the person taking customer information with them or trying to poach clients during their two-week notice period, since everybody knows that's how it works in banking I don't see what good it does). Perhaps a co-worker who was a close personal friend might have knowledge ahead of time that someone was job hunting, otherwise job seeking is kept pretty hush hush as it would be grounds for immediate termination (right to work state). Again this applies more to lenders and managers. I work in commercial banking in a fairly small market (metropolitan area of less than 1 million) so other bankers mileage may vary. Additionally, I work on the commercial lending side, retail and small business banking may be handled differently.

ETA the employees immediate team members would be notified in a quickly called team meeting prior to the email announcement.

Even in far far less prestigious jobs the same thing happens.

In my previous job I was second in charge of a high dependency unit and we had a lot casual/contract nurses. One guy I worked with a lot and he was an excellent nurse, I never had the slightest doubt about him, his knowledge or his actions. I worked with him for over 3 years.
I worked with him on Friday and came back on a Monday and all trace if him was gone, his name erased from the roster, his stuff gone.

I never knew a thing and found out everything in retrospect, it turns out on a shift I wasn't there, he made a decision to give someone a drug. A decision I would 100% have agreed with. The supervisor on at the time who had less experience made it an issue and unknown to me she agitated about it behind the scenes, made it sound more than it was, got the patient's doctor involved and as a result he was told he wouldn't be required any longer.
I had no idea, no-one asked me for my opinion on his overall work etc. He was just gone and I had to suck it up. Once the decision was made, there was nothing I could do about it.
Sure I was pissed off about it...even more so because of the other far less capable nurses I had to work with after he was gone.

Do I think I should have been involved/told/consulted? hell yes...but at work that's just how things go sometimes.
I don't know why Kelly thinks she would be any different to anyone else, that's just very naïve of her, especially in her field of work.

Yes, his last day is now 5/13 (I only remember b/c it's Friday the 13th!)but it was supposed to be September. They sent an email to employees yesterday that moved it up. It said they discussed it with Kelly and Michael once she came back. So somebody wanted his last day moved up. But I saw the clip of him announcing it on the show and he would be there until September. That's why I said 5 months.

As I said in the original thread, no, we would not be notified and very few co-workers share promotions with each other before it's announced. We are always told to not share until AFTER the official announcement.

From the other thread: We didn't find out for three days that one of our co-workers wasn't coming back to work. She was the assistant and the person we were all supposed to go to with any daily issues or questions. She went home Friday night like normal. We thought she was out sick and three days later we were just told she wasn't with the company any longer.

I think I've only been personally told by maybe 2 or 3 people over the 13 yrs I've been at my job before an announcement.