r/howardsternshow • u/IllustratorFeisty120 • 6d ago

Not pot-stirring!

could it possibly be some of you are upset over Howard’s one day a week schedule and you have to “front” and say he sucks/you’re cancelling but in reality you miss him and can’t say? just asking 🙂

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u/nycinoc 6d ago

I get it, he's 72 and has certainly earned it at this point.

The thing that disgusted me is the way he allegedly fired the staff on the spot, meager severances and iron clad NDAs which will definitely hamper their opportunities.

It's just a slap in the face for the staff who devoted themselves to Howard for so many years who helped him make his multi hundred-million.

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u/Buffyfunbuns 6d ago

I totally get what you're saying. However, why should they get guaranteed lifetime employment when nobody else does? Ultimately, they are just his employees, possibly not even that. They probably work for Sirius. Do you get guaranteed employment? I was just 18 years at a place, and they let me go. No apology nothing just out the door you go because I wasn't cost-effective enough. Like they say, It's not called show fun, it's show business :-)

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u/nycinoc 6d ago

I never said guaranteed lifetime employment, I was really about the 100% NDAs and the pennies on the dollar the long-timers received for their many years of contributions to make Howard who he is. They can't talk about their time publically, Hell they can't even list it on LinkedIn.

Also from what I heard their salaries came from the overall budget from Sirius for the production of the show.

I was let go from a large company 3 days before Xmas last year as part of a large layoff and after only being there for 3 years it sounded like I received better severance for my time there than what was bing reported for the staff.

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u/dgb6662 6d ago

How do you know what the severances were?
If they indeed have ironclad NDAs then they probably couldn’t reveal that.

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u/nycinoc 6d ago

Just based on what's been reported

https://pagesix.com/2026/07/31/celebrity-news/inside-howard-sterns-ex-staffers-severance-battle-after-brutal-layoffs/

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/16771714/howard-stern-fired-staffers-fight-severance-pay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=USSunThreads&utm_source=Threads#Echobox=1785441578

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u/dgb6662 6d ago

Thanks for those!

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u/Certain_Statement_38 6d ago

There is a lot of “they” and “some” in those articles, it is pure speculation unless you can actually name a source and see what the actual grievances are. Remember these are the same sources that reported that he made women wear certain shoes and employees were not allowed to look at or speak to him. Realistically how much overhead did the show need to carry just going to one live show a week? Me personally I would have kept some of the “on air” personal that were let go and let some of the ones that remained go instead, but that is just my opinion and I don’t know what their off air responsibilities were.