‘Paranoia’ Felt by WarnerMedia Staff Amid Looming Layoffs in Discovery Merger: ‘It’s Bad, It’s Crazy’

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“Everybody has merger fatigue and it hasn’t happened yet,” one employee tells TheWrap

Casey Bloys, Channing Dungey and Toby Emmerich (Getty Images)
Casey Bloys, Channing Dungey and Toby Emmerich (Getty Images)

As WarnerMedia executives continue to march out the door in Burbank ahead of the completion of its merger with Discovery, some longtime employees are anxious and stressed about future layoffs.

“I’ve never seen such paranoia. It’s bad, it’s crazy,” one former senior Warner Bros. staff member who remains in contact with her former colleagues told TheWrap. “These people are palpably nervous.”

She added that pandemic isolation has only made things worse: “These people have been working at home for two years. They can’t even talk to each other [in person].”

On Tuesday, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar announced

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