“The Hudson Hotel bar should have a permanent booth for Early Show going away parties,” says a CBS veteran, who reports another two staffers on the network’s morning show quit this week, and there are more exits on the way.

It turns out Shelley Ross’ departure hasn’t been the panacea that brass tried convincing everyone, including the press, it would be. Even with interim executive producer Rick Kaplan at the A.M. helm, we’re told “things aren’t any better [there]. No former staffers have returned to CBS despite the media plants to the contrary.”

So how come problems remain? Because of Ross’ “mean girl” confidants are still on the inside, even though, we’re told, they’re the ones responsible for brandishing the largest, most serrated knives when it came to stabbing her in the back.

And look no farther than former Good Morning America colleague and Early Show EP hopeful Ben Sherwood and CBS VP of talent/development Barbara Fedida, who were both, reportedly, on great terms with Ross to her face, but not when she left the room. (Fedida worked in talent at ABC before CBS poached her.)

Fedida and CBS News chief Sean McManus, meanwhile, are taking heat from staffers for “hand pick[ing] one executive disaster after the next” without repercussion.

And that’s easy to do when Les Moonves is asleep at the wheel.