HOW TO FIRE A CELEBRITY

I just read that Rosie O'Donnell is being fired from the TV program "The View" and will be leaving in June. That's 6 weeks away. To be honest, I haven't watched the show in the year she has been on mainly because I work and my company would frown if I watched TV all day. I know Rosie has been outspoken and has gotten in a few verbal brawls with other celebrities, and I am sure being unemployed isn't going to put her in the unemployment line or the poor house.

What I am wondering, however, how come celebrities who get fired or give notice that they are leaving as Katie Couric did, get to stay on a while. When the civilian population gets fired, they are usually given a few hours to clean out their desks and some companies require that the fired employee is escorted out the building. Even employees who are leaving on their own are usually only given a week. Companies do this so that the employees won't talk to other employees. If one is being fired, one might not have the best opinion of their employers and if one is leaving voluntarily, there is obbviously a reason they are changing jobs so why would the company want them around?

Celebrities on the other hand get to stay on just like Rosie and Katie (she stayed 3 more months). How will Rosie act in front of the audience the next 6 weeks knowing she has been axed? What's she going to do? Will she rave about how happy she is that she will get some vacation time or how wonderful Barbara Walters is for firing her? Maybe she will take advantage of the extra air time to appeal to the members of the audience to give her a job. You know "anyone can rent a comedian for the day". I just don't understand the firing concept of the show business industry!!!