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A Houston meteorologist has been canned from her job after a whiny tirade about never winning an Emmy award that trashed her bosses and colleagues.
Brittany Begley, 44, said she is “no longer” with KPRC-TV after she was fired for the viral social media rant — “And for that, I’m truly grateful,” she announced in an Instagram post.
“Maybe you’ve read the headlines?” she snarked although she said she didn’t “disagree” with the company’s decision to let her go.
“’I’m proving to you that I operate with integrity through my actions and the emails showing how hard I worked to bring positive impact to KPRC,” she said, adding that “I wouldn’t say it if I couldn’t prove it.”
Begley is aspiring for a “bigger role in TV where I can advocate for people like me who started from the ground up,” she said in her post.
She went off the rails earlier this month in a lengthy Instagram diatribe in which she complained that despite years of hard work, she had never received one of TV journalism’s highest honors.
“Never won an Emmy because the markets I worked in never thought traffic reporting was worthy of one,” Begley wrote.
She also slammed the work-life balance during her time at the network, and said she was “tired of coming home to an empty refrigerator.”
Coworkers would allegedly come into work “only to turn on the TV and watch a team normalize bad behavior: consistently late, not even mic’d up ten minutes before a show, then put it on air as a segment,” she moaned.
“And I know I’m not alone. A lot of people inside and outside this industry feel exactly like I do.”
After her post went viral, Begley insisted that she didn’t mean to insult her colleagues — and only wanted to spread awareness about mental health.
Prior to joining KPRC, she worked at networks in California, South Carolina and Ohio.
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