Lane Kiffin Out at USC

Can't believe it took this long.

Anchorman Fired in His Debut Newscast

Life imitates art as this Anchorman outdoes Will Ferrell.

Link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/watch_tv_anchor_drops_bomb_in_debut_nPxz6wqZW0eNTxgVYcDyBN

McDonald's Waitress Collects After Putting Too Many Sprikles on McFlurry

A former McDonald's employee has won £3,000 in compensation following a court case.

Sarah Finch, 19, was fired for gross misconduct after she was deemed to have given too many extra chocolate sprinkles to a colleague on a 99p McFlurry.

The waitress took the restaurant to an employment tribunal after her bosses said she had sold food without payment. The compensation was settled outside of court.

She said in a statement: "I was dismissed on the grounds of gross misconduct. I was accused of stealing food.

"The matter was trivial, in that I provided a fellow employee, who was purchasing a dessert, a generous sprinkling of chocolate pieces.

"There is no standard for such measures - they are always imprecise and will vary among customers.

"My colleague had asked me, 'Make it a nice one'. So the measure I gave erred on the side of more than, rather than less than, the mean."

Finch had earned £180-a-week at the Carmarthen, West Wales branch of McDonald's, where she had worked for 18 months.

Mall Fires Santa For Rude Behavior

A real-life "Bad Santa."

A mall in Maine has fired their Santa Claus after children and parents complained he was rude, grumpy and wouldn't even let one child sit on his lap.

Officials at the Maine Mall in South Portland say they're looking for a jollier Santa and hope to have him in place Thursday.

Jessica Mailhiot and her 6-year-old daughter, Chantel, went to see Santa this week. They tell WGME-TV he was rude and wouldn't let the girl sit on his lap when they said they didn't want to buy a $20 photo.

Chantel says when she asked Santa for an American Girl doll, he replied she'd get an "American football."

When the mom posted her story online, others shared similar experiences.

Looks like we know who's been naughty this year.

Santa may get coal in his stocking.

Reporter/Stripper Files Lawsuit

Some might say reporters and stripper have a lot in common - they both uncover things.

So , the former Houston Chronicle reporter who was fired after another publication exposed her second job as a night club stripper announced Thursday she had filed a federal gender discrimination complaint against the paper that let her go.

In her complaint, Sarah Tressler, 30, is asking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to look into the Chronicle's decision to fire her. Tressler says an editor told her she was let go because she hadn't disclosed her side gig in her job application.

"I was very upset that I was fired because I had been told by many editors that I was doing a good job," Tessler said in a statement. "There was no question on the form that covered my dancing. I answered the questions on the form honestly."

Tressler announced she filed the complaint at a news conference with her lawyer, Beverly Hills celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. Later, Tressler tweeted: "Couldn't ask for anyone better by my side ... So grateful."

The Houston Press, an alternative weekly, first exposed the "double life" of Tressler in a feature story with the headline "Writer by day, stripper by night." It also drew attention to Tressler's blog - Diary of an Angry Stripper - which included pictures of her scantily-clad self, as well as rich detail from the inside of the gentlemen's club.

During her two-month reporting gig, Tressler covered high society, human interest stories, and fashion. She had previously worked as a freelancer for the Chronicle. Tressler "very rarely" worked as an exotic dancer, a skill that helped her pay for college, she said at the news conference, according to local TV station KPRC.

Tressler said she occasionally went to the club for exercise.

"And I didn't have a gym membership. So, on days off I might just go in there in the afternoon and do acouple stage rotations and knock it out," she said.

KPRC reports that Tressler, who has a master's degree in journalism from New York University, also teaches part time at the University of Houston.

"Most exotic dancers are female, and therefore to terminate an employee because they had previously been an exotic dancer would have an adverse impact on women, since it is a female dominated occupation," Allred, who is a self-described feminist lawyer, said in a statement.

"Sarah's work as a dancer is lawful and is not a crime. It does not, has not and will not affect her ability to perform her job as a journalist," the statement read.