This morning, Gawker blew the lid off of Interview's apparently fictitious letters to the editor, (a.k.a. "FakeLetterGate.")

And now, a well-placed tipster tells us that some of the mag's top scribes** have recently come down with a bad case of that "I just got fired" bug that's been going around.

Tattles our insider:

i was at an interview party last night and overheard some talk about trouble brewing. apparently some people have taken "sick leave" recently, which the employees guessed meant firing.

So, what the hell is going on there?

Has Ingrid let being the editor in chief go to her head, (or at least her luscious locks of curly hair?) Could it be that the "Crystal Ball of Pop" has disgruntled ex-staffers in its near future? Might it be that the Time Inc. pink slip epidemic is still contagious?

If anyone deep in the trenches at Brant Publications (or just nosy enough to known anything) has the real dirt, shoot us an email and let us know what went down.

**But wait, isn't it all written by celebs?