Ellen DeGeneres Show has responded to complaints from staff calling the show a “toxic” workplace and said they take the claims “very seriously.”BuzzFeed spoke with 10 former employees of The Ellen DeGeneres Show who claimed they were “fired after taking medical leave or bereavement days to attend family funerals.”The employees also told the outlet that they were “instructed by their direct managers to not speak to DeGeneres if they saw her around the office.” ‘Ellen’ crew ‘distressed, outraged’ by pay cut since coronavirus outbreak: report “Most of the former employees blamed executive producers and other senior managers for the day-to-day toxicity, but one former employee said that, ultimately, it’s Ellen’s name on the show and ‘she.