That is Not Why I Left
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When on-air people leave TV stations, often the station tries to spin the reason the person left.
Most often, because the person that is leaving has a huge ego, they go along with the station’s spin.
But sometimes, it blows up in the station’s face.
NY1, which has all kinds of troubles with on air staff, cut tires with Traffic Anchor Adelle Caballero.
Caballero is a new mom and the station tried to spin her leaving as she was looking to become a stay-at-home mom and was struggling to juggle it all.
Caballero sent an email to her co-workers calling bullshit on the station’s spin. In the Oct. 20 note, she said she’d quit because “management and I could not agree on contract specifics.” Caballero added in the company-wide email, “I am NOT leaving because I decided to become a stay-at-home mom or because I was struggling to maintain work, life and motherhood [at the same time].”
Caballero said she was “honestly shocked” to learn “people were told and led to believe that.” Caballero gave birth to a son in April and returned to work from maternity leave in early September.
She added, “Being a parent and having a career can be a balancing act at times, but it was one I had absolutely no trouble juggling.” She added, “In fact, I was happy to be back at work after maternity leave and enjoyed the routine of being a working mother.”
Caballero didn’t explicitly say who gave her colleagues the impression she was quitting to be a full-time parent, but she later wrote, “Despite the dishonesty, I harbor no ill will for NY1 or anyone here. However, we’re a news station; the core of journalism is communication and honesty. What does it say if those two things can’t even be established in our own newsroom?”
Good for her for being honest, even when her station was not.
H/T New York Post
