“I didn’t find out until after dessert”

Sackings in media and showbiz are amongst the most brutal in the workforce.

You can be given your marching orders with no notice, in an industry where you are constantly judged on your appearance and personality. Often you are the last to know. And then social media piles on….

Greg Evans reportedly learned he had been axed from one job when he drove past the Herald Sun building and read it on a newspaper poster.

Former Today weather presenter Sami Lukis this week writes about being dumped in 2005, in a piece for news.com.au:

I was dumped as Channel 9’s Today show weather presenter while I was on holiday. In fact, I was only given the shocking news on the very last day of what had been an otherwise enjoyable three-week vacay.

Talk about a holiday to remember.

This all happened many years ago, but the memory is just as vivid today. And thinking about how it all went down still makes me anxious.

I was enjoying dinner at some fancy pants restaurant in Beverly Hills, when I got the call from my manager, telling me not to rush home, because I didn’t have a job to come back to. And just like that, without any warning, after three amazing years, my time at Today was over.

I was devastated. And humiliated. Because as it also turns out, I was the last one to know.

I was having dinner that night with some friends, including Richard Wilkins, who also happened to be in LA at the time. Dickie later told me that he found out I was leaving the show before dinner. I didn’t find out until after dessert.

Lukis was later part of The Morning Show family.

You can read more here.