Gotta love Conan!!!

[Sweetpea83]

I like him..he's pretty funny.

[Swanky Mama Of Three]

oh no! Did you guys hear about Jay Leno and his staff?
ICK! They were fired. . . he's such a "nice guy" though, he offered them a little bonus - $100 for each year of service.
What a jerk!
I'll try and find a link, or if anyone else has one. . . .

[IntlSet]

Originally Posted by Swanky Mama Of Three

oh no! Did you guys hear about Jay Leno and his staff? ICK! They were fired. . . he's such a "nice guy" though, he offered them a little bonus - $100 for each year of service. What a jerk! I'll try and find a link, or if anyone else has one. . . .

????

He is a jerk.

[HauteMama]

That's dreadful! I can't imagine him firing them over this!

[Swanky Mama Of Three]

he didn't fire them, the deal is if the writer's didn't return to work by the time set, they'd be fired. That's why Conan offered to pay them.

[Swanky Mama Of Three]

http://weblogs.variety.com/wga_strik...t-show-la.html

"Tonight Show" lays off staff; corporate says: "If your services are needed, we will contact you"

Today was the last day for most of the 120 staffers on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” who left with an early Christmas bonus check and no guarantee of a job when the strike ended. [An NBC source puts the number at "just under 100."]
“Do we have a job when the strike ends? That’s what everyone keeps asking,” said one former staffer. “They’ve guaranteed no one a job. They just keep saying, ‘The letter explains it.”
That letter is a notice from NBC’s human resources department that says, “If your services are needed, we will contact you.”
Sources said that while some higher-level executives received severance packages, other staffers received only Leno’s traditional bonus of $100 times the number of years the staffer has been on the show.
Writers were not included in the bonuses, but one writer emphasized that “he's not being Scrooge. He just wanted to get the staff taken care of first. I can't emphasize enough how generous Jay is.”
Others were less forgiving.
“We haven’t heard from him since the second or third day of the strike,” said a former Leno staffer. “He called on speakerphone while we were in our daily meeting and said, ‘Don’t look for other jobs, no one’s going to lose their house, we’ll get though this.’ Two weeks ago, we got the heads up that we had two more weeks (of pay) and that’s it. Everyone wondered, ‘Is Jay going to come through?’ And nothing happened. Conan makes less and he said, ‘I’m going to pay for my people.’ ”
Still on the payroll are the exec producers and a skeleton crew to answer phones. Leno was not on hand for the layoffs. Instead, Leno’s assistant notified the staff yesterday that they would get their Christmas bonus early. Leno's bonuses usually go out the week before Christmas.
"People are devastated today because we thought that he meant something more than an early Christmas bonus," another said. "A lot of people didn't look for other work, based on Jay's assurances."
UPDATE: Insiders confirm that the staff of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" were formally laid off by NBC today as well; the show's employees received similar letters to the ones sent to "Tonight Show" staffers. Like "Tonight Show's" team, "Late Night" employees are officially laid off effective Friday. But as has been reported previously, O'Brien will continue to pay "Late Night" staffers himself. But because they're no longer officially employed by NBC, they won't be reporting to the "Late Night" offices come Monday.
Late Friday afternoon, a spokesperson delivered this statement:

NBC regretfully informed the people who work on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O’Brien that their services are not needed at this time due to our inability to continue production of the shows.

-- Dave McNary and Dana Harris

[Swanky Mama Of Three]

okay, sounds less "jerky" here I guess, but he's no Conan

[princessaj0603]

haha Conan is a good guy! I sat almost next to him at Isabella's in NY last year and he seemed like a totally normal guy! His hair was kind of messy and he didn't look all done up or like he was trying to draw attention to himself. Just a cool guy!

[Bella]

I think what Conan has done has gone WAY above and beyond........we should all be so lucky to work with someone like that.

Times are tough for some right now. I work in RE and know quite a few people not working....no paycheck and certainly no multimillionaire's handing out paychecks......lol That'd be great!!!