Getting the sack is a traumatic experience at the best of times. But finding out in a tweet from a third party while you’re doing a live show…

With an hour and 40 minutes still to go on their shift, these two sports announcers on Chicago’s 87.7 The Game found out their fate when one of them checked his Twitter feed to see himself and his co-host named in a breaking news tweet from prominent local media critic Robert Feder.

“Why is it so hard to tell your employees that they’re losing their jobs. Why do they have to find out this way?” said Ben Finfer (left of screen). “Isn’t there anybody here who has respect for employees?”

”I’m finding this out right now along with you,”  Finfer tells his co-host Alex Quigley (right). as he reads from a blog post.

Trouble is, Quigley, who is also part of the management team, knew about the sackings the night before but didn’t tell his co-host.

“We’re doing a live show here,” Finfer goes on, “And to be told this way, it’s really a letdown. We’re getting screwed on this one. … We just found out on Twitter a half hour ago that the station is being taken off the air. We were not told about this ahead of time.

“We didn’t know anything about it. We were coming back from a break and saw on Twitter from Robert Feder that the station is being taken off the air. Can you believe that? A lot of really talented people were hired to work at this station and found out through Twitter that they were fired. Nothing from the bosses.

“I don’t really know what to do for the last hour of this show. I guess take calls.”

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