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By MATT SEDENSKY, AP National Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 As if Scott Pelley\u2019s years in a glamorous, globetrotting, seven-figure dream job weren\u2019t enough, he\u2019s pulled off one more thing to stir your envy: a cutting takedown of his boss that went loudly public.<\/p>\n

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The \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent\u2019s searing rebuke of CBS management this week, in which he questioned his bosses\u2019 credentials and motives, may have ended in his firing, but amounted to the sort of mouthing-off that workplace peons typically only fantasize about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the American dream \u2014 to be able to tell off your boss and walk out the door,\u201d says Zach Tyra, a 40-year-old data analyst from Jones, Oklahoma, who found a kindred spirit in the newsman, recalling his own experience with a former boss he said was clueless. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do what Scott Pelley did because I didn\u2019t have the safety net or the resources or the network that he has. I couldn\u2019t tell my boss to stick it. I just had to sit there and eat it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelley\u2019s message may have been delivered in the measured baritone of someone polished by decades on the airwaves. But his backtalk stirred many who\u2019ve felt the simmering rage of feeling a clueless boss was turning their days into a nightmare.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also kind of weird, like, Pelley isn\u2019t some blue-collar hero. There\u2019s a wide gap between, like, Pelley and your local everyday guy down at the hardware store,\u201d Tyra says. \u201cBut I think everyone can relate to standing up for what they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

A staff meeting that went deeply awry<\/h4>\n

Pelley\u2019s dressing-down came in a Monday staff meeting with the new executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Nick Bilton, brought aboard by Bari Weiss, who became CBS News\u2019 editor-in-chief in October. The correspondent reportedly grilled Bilton about the firings last week of Bilton\u2019s predecessor, Tanya Simon, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, accusing management of \u201cmurdering\u201d the program, a revered cornerstone of TV journalism and a mainstay of Sunday nights for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has no qualifications for her job,\u201d Pelley said of Weiss, according to the media news site Status, which reported he then turned his ire at Bilton. \u201cYou have slender qualifications for this job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In firing Pelley, Bilton called his outburst an \u201cambush\u201d of \u201cremarkable incivility and contempt.\u201d But, with Pelley becoming a proxy for the American worker, others cheered.<\/p>\n

Parry Headrick, who runs a public relations firm in Boston, was immediately transported to his days as a young reporter at a small newspaper, where he had been carefully chronicling the trials of people who fell ill from what was believed to be exposure to toxic waste.<\/p>\n

He had earned the trust of one family only to find editors plastered a headline on the story that reduced the sick child to a \u201ctoxic boy\u201d and caused Headrick to lose all faith in his bosses. He screamed at the paper\u2019s publisher and editor-in-chief before quitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my goddamn mind when they did that. And the story with Pelley resonated so hard specifically because of that,\u201d says 57-year-old Headrick, who thinks many people can see Pelley\u2019s point of view. \u201cThere exists in most Americans the desire to speak truth to power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That such an outburst arose in the news business may be no surprise; journalists pride themselves as a truth-to-power, voice-for-the-voiceless bunch. Staff meetings with reporters sassing editors are common, and in newsrooms everywhere, managers have been subjected to the type of tough questions they pay their people to ask others.<\/p>\n

The threshold for dismissal varies from place to place<\/h4>\n

The line separating acceptable discourse with fireable offense is as different in each workplace as the settings themselves, whether a dive bar or diocesan chancery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the real world, there are layers of politeness and cordiality that don\u2019t really exist in journalism,\u201d says Headrick, who cheered Pelley \u201cpushing back on something larger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clare Haynes had a middle-management role at a nonprofit when she had her Pelley moment two decades ago. She was three weeks into a job where she thought she\u2019d been brought aboard to institute changes that would achieve an innovative work culture. But every suggestion she made was dismissed. Her boss said his boss wouldn\u2019t buy the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you saying you\u2019re too weak to ask?\u201d she snapped. His mouth fell open. He stared at her silently for a full minute.<\/p>\n

Haynes survived, lasting three more years at the firm, but things were never the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t lose my job, but I paid the price, being seen as maverick,\u201d says 55-year-old Haynes, of Royal Leamington Spa, England, who now runs a coaching firm that trains executives how to handle difficult workplace conversations.<\/p>\n

Johan Konst was working at a Swedish media company when he felt pushed to the limit seven years ago. After years of high-stress, hard-selling days pushing advertising he didn\u2019t believe in, he finally said his piece, delivering a blunt, profanity-dotted message to his boss.<\/p>\n

He was promptly shown the door.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to me,\u201d says 34-year-old Konst, of Amsterdam, who walked away with a nice severance check. \u201cAt some point, this had to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matt Sedensky can be reached at msedensky@ap.org and https:\/\/x.com\/sedensky<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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