Fox Doing A New Reality Show Based On Layoffs…

This will give a whole new meaning to the term “going postal”!!! Is this what it has come down to Fox?! Wow.

The Fox network is letting employees of some troubled small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off and turning the results into a reality show.

The series, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” is in production, but Fox wouldn’t say on Wednesday when it would go on the air.

Each episode will feature a company with about 15 or 20 employees that needs to cut costs because of the economy. Instead of the boss deciding who is fired, the company will open its books to show everyone’s salaries and let the employees make the call.

In an inverse to “The Apprentice,” the chosen one loses, instead of gets, a job.

Fox says the laid-off worker will get a small severance, but isn’t saying whether the network or producers are paying the participants in anything beyond the chance for prime-time fame. Fox is developing the show with Endemol USA, the company behind “Big Brother,” ”Deal or No Deal” and “Fear Factor.”

Tory Johnson, founder and chief executive of Women For Hire, which organizes job fairs and advises women seeking work, said she wonders whether “Someone’s Gotta Go” is a good idea at a time so many people are out of work.

“For most people who are concerned about job security or are desperate to get hired, I don’t think there’s much to laugh at in terms of watching someone else’s pain and misery,” said Johnson, a regular contributor to ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

But Mike Darnell, chief of alternative programming at Fox, said everyone who participates in the show knows fully what they are doing.

“I feel that it’s part of the times that we are living in,” Darnell said. “It’s certainly no worse than watching the news every night and hearing all the statistics and watching what is happening. To be frank, like all these shows, if you don’t want to watch, don’t watch it.”

Fox and Endemol have had “absolutely no trouble” finding companies willing to participate, he said. (Source)

WOW. I mean, just think though, I know there is at least ONE co-worker in your place of work that you wish would get fired for their 2 hour long lunch breaks and frequent “sick days” and loud convos about their baby daddies in the cubicle next to you.

But this is just kind of low I think.

What do you think? And can you imagine if this was in a Black-owned business!? ROFL Pookie go out back, pop the trunk and pop the glock! Or not. But yeah. LOL.

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