Megyn Kelly Writer Reported ‘Toxic And Demeaning’ Work Culture, Then Was Fired

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Apparently, a top staffer, writer Kevin Bleyer, has been fired from Megyn Kelly’s show after calling the work culture their “toxic and demeaning,” and full of bullying and “abusive treatment.”

Kevin was fired after complaining that Megyn’s two top execs, Jackie Levin and Christine Cataldi, were bullying lower-level members of staff — despite Megyn herself making anti-abuse her crusade on her show lately. After Matt Lauer’s firing, NBC ordered their staff to report abusive behavior, so the firing comes as hypocritical to say the least.

Kevin, who wrote for The Daily Show and was a speechwriter for President Barack Obama, sent an email to NBC News human resources, and was fired soon after. The men, revealed by the Daily Mail, said:

“I’m sad to say … the executive incompetence continues — as does the dysfunctional management, abusive treatment, maddening hypocrisy, staggering inefficiencies, acidic and deficient communication, and relentless scapegoating. Jackie Levin persists in creating a toxic and demeaning environment, and Christine Cataldi enables and reinforces it.”

He continued: “It is a special absurdity — and what some find a hard-to-swallow injustice — that as a team we’ve been lauded for covering harassment stories daily on air, while the staff producing those stories feels so embattled and bullied themselves. As a result, veteran staffers are looking for the exits … Others have told me they’d ask to be reassigned elsewhere within NBC. I should add that many of those who have confided in me have made it plain: sensitivity training will not suffice. Their feeling is you can’t change these tigers’ stripes.”