Posted on 04/24/2023 9:43:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell is leaving his position effective immediately following an investigation into a complaint of inappropriate conduct, parent company Comcast announced Sunday.
Shell had overseen NBC Universal’s news and entertainment portfolio, sports production, theme parks and streaming operation. He worked at the company in various executive roles for nearly two decades.
“Today is my last day as CEO of NBCUniversal. I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret,” Shell said in a statement. “I’m truly sorry I let my Comcast and NBCUniversal colleagues down, they are the most talented people in the business and the opportunity to work with them the last 19 years has been a privilege.”
Comcast opened an investigation into Shell soon after an employee filed a complaint against Shell, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. His senior team will report to Comcast President Mike Cavanagh and no replacement has been named.
“We are disappointed to share this news with you. We built this company on a culture of integrity. Nothing is more important than how we treat each other. You should count on your leaders to create a safe and respectful workplace. When our principles and policies are violated, we will always move quickly to take appropriate action, as we have done here,” Cavanagh and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a statement, per CNBC.
Shell was named NBC Universal CEO in January 2020 and guided the company through the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership, NBC launched its streaming platform Peacock and conducted layoffs to reorient the business towards streaming, CNBC reported.
At least it as a woman…
Was a woman…
Or claims to be.......................🤷♂️
From Wikipedia:
“His sister is Dana Shell Smith,[8]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Shell
“Dana Shell Smith (born 1970) is a former American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Qatar from July 2014 to June 2017.[1][2] She was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Qatar on July 10, 2014.[3] Previously, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs from 2011 to 2014 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Media.[4][5][6][7]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Shell_Smith
What a bunch of crap. You get fired because you dated a woman in the company. I assume the complaint was: “He didn’t call me back the next morning.”
Guy messed around with someone he worked closely with, loses everything, and the woman will be fine. We had a President donging an intern in the 1990s and the Left loves the guy even after multiple women said he used power on them for jollies.
Just for fun one of the CEO’S needs to take one for the team and get in trouble for banging a Trans girly man. Watch them call that an “inappropriate relationship “.
Officers of a corporation should never, ever date or finagle within their own company. No matter what gender, sex or species..................
Illicit relationships if consensual does not seem to be a problem with media personalities and leftists. There is more to this story than we are being told. I would suspect using a position of power to obtain sexual favors is what happened. Lawsuit or non-disclosure settlement to follow would be the norm.
Yes, and don't date someone who is in the same church or community group either!
The left destroys everything.
There is nothing wrong with consensual relationships anywhere.
The left has turned women with a failed relationship into another one of their victim groups...and lawyers have been right there to profit from it.
...and you repeat it.
There is already massive distrust in the workplace between men and women, thanks to these people.
Real, provable harassment is wrong. But what today's women claim to be harassment is outrageous.
Divorced and broke in 6 months.
That’s the fun though. Watch their heads explode for firing the CEO for banging a Trans. I love it. Two high school dudes should do the same and one file a rape complaint against the other dude. Watch that school board collectively explode.
This is the new corporate-speak. Just like the Bud Light CEO comment
“Something happened which we won’t at all discuss, but we will offer a few paragraphs of completely meaningless bullshit so you know we aren’t completely ignoring it, so as to reduce chances we get sued by shareholders.”
How else is a trans dude supposed to sleep his way to the top? Diversity, equity and INCLUSION, right?
Most all companies have rules about “fraternizing”.
Military also. They are typically pretty strict.
My view is if you can’t obey those rules you don’t deserve your position.
That is why he was fired! Had it been a fag or trannie he’d be rewarded.
I had an inappropriate relationship with an intern in the White House, but I am not going to resign.
Remember, who in effect, said that?
Nope...this is not really why he was fired.
I don’t why he was fired, but you don’t fire the CEO of a company this large and powerful over an affair. That is the public excuse.
Good thing I left the Army when I did. I was dating a woman who came to work in my section at Fort Bliss. She was 22, I was 28. We married 5 years later. Still married 35+ years later.
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