TMZ Breaking: Keith Planned to Quit the "Ragtag" Organization

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/31/keith-olbermann-current-tv-fired/#.T3c8UDFDt2A

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Keith Olbermann wanted out of Current TV well before he was fired yesterday because he felt the network was mismanaged and wouldn't be around much longer ... sources close to the situation tell TMZ.

As TMZ first reported, Keith is planning on filing a lawsuit against the network for his unceremonious dumping yesterday. He released a statement that said in part, "It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently."

According to our sources, Keith felt the network was a "ragtag operation" that was disorganized and felt thrown together. We're told Keith felt the entire place was mismanaged ... right down to the office supplies.

On one such occasion, we're told the staff couldn't use one of the printers because it was out of toner and they had none in supply. In a staff-wide email obtained by TMZ (see below), a production administrator told the staff, "We expect to have replacement toner in tomorrow and will have a better stock on hand for the future. Sorry for the inconvenience."

To Keith's point ... they couldn't even fire him without a giant mistake. In Current TV's press release to announce that Eliot Spitzer would be taking over for Olbermann, they provided a Twitter account for Spitzer that is not his. The real Eliot Spitzer doesn't have a Twitter account.

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http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/30/keith-olbermann-current-tv-lawsuit-al-gore/?adid=hero2#.T3c9ezFDt2A

[warrior1]

1. I like Keith

but boy does sure like burning bridges.

[TheWraith]

6. You can't fire me, I quit! nt

[trumad]

2. Seriously...the toner

Because an office clerk forgot to order toner.... that's a major example of ragtag.

Come on Keith...you're going to have to find something better than that.

[RZM]

4. I've personally witnessed fits thrown over toner

Office managers should make sure all necessary supplies are on hand. But mistakes are made. In my experience, it's more about the person doing the complaining than whatever they were complaining about. If it wasn't the toner, it would be something else.

Some people just aren't very nice and don't work well with others. As I've said before, the same qualities that make Olbermann difficult to work with are the same qualities that make him a popular political commentator (headstrong, cocky, confrontational, etc.).

[DefenseLawyer]

3. I think if you come to a guy

and say, look, we are committed to taking this thing to the next level, we are going to build a real television news channel around you and we are going to do X, Y and Z toward those ends, you have an obligation to follow through. If the guy signs on to that plan, only to see that few of those things are being done and those that are done are half-assed (like broadcasting from an unlit storage closet), he may walk out. Once in college I answered an ad to "sell sporting goods" only to find that it was a job selling steak knives door-to-door. I didn't stay either. I'm not saying that happened here, but if it did he had every reason to balk. I'm sure the facts will come out eventually.

[obey]

5. That's certainly Olbermann's side of the story

But I think it's instructive that V. P. Gore has refrained from joining the media/Twitter battle at this point.

I find it difficult to accept that someone who could produce such a well documented, award winning production like "An Inconvenient Truth" and become the most globally respected fervent crusader to halt global warming would participate in putting together a "Ragtag" organization.

Keith, you run the danger of dragging a fine man and yourself through so much mud that you could very well destroy the credibility of the both of you.

I hope I'm wrong, but if I have to choose a "winner" it won't be you.

[qazplm]

7. when the same guy

keeps getting into confrontations over and over again, you have to at least wonder if it aint everyone else that is the problem.

[DefenseLawyer]

8. He's always the employee though.

Most people don't have repeated "confrontations" with management because at the end of the day most people have to shut up and take it because they need the job.