Oprah: Empowering all but her minions
“Many of our employees contribute significant hours of overtime during our production season. This is quite common within the television industry,” a publicist blithely informed Page Six, confirming the overtime.
So the Page Six-er’s hit the Dashboard function on their iMacs and did the math: If said employee worked a five-day week, she averaged 18.5 hours of work a day, whereas were she working all week with no days off, she was only clocking 13.2 hours a day. Slacker.
As we noted, TV Guide reported that Oprah pulls down $260 million per year. Would it kill her to take a pay cut of, say, a million a year and hire a couple of extra people so the rest of her team can have lives?
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David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.
The problem here isn't that Oprah requests her people to work hard. The problem is that Carla lied about her hours that she "worked" and was paid for those hours. Oprah hired a woman named Heather to fill in and take some of the slack for the people in the Executive office. Yet, Carla still lied. And now Harpo executives are covering it up saying that she infact worked those hours. Employees at Harpo are very angry because they know the truth. And now... maybe Oprah does as well.