A glamorous Houston TV reporter launched into a scathing rebuke of her co-workers and complained about never winning in an Emmy in an extraordinary social media rant.

Brittany Begley, 44, a meteorologist and traffic reporter with KPRC-TV in Houston, took to Instagram to share her unfiltered thoughts on her station as she said she deserves a better job. 

'Sorry, but I'm tired of coming home to an empty refrigerator,' she captioned a picture of herself sitting on the floor of her kitchen. 'Honestly, I don't belong here anymore.' 

Begley bemoaned that she had never been given the recognition she feels she deserves, including not being awarded an Emmy because 'the markets I worked in never thought traffic reporting was worthy of one.' 

'I told myself that when I die, at least I’ll know I stood for something - even if the industry never technically thought I was worthy,' she wrote. 

In a blistering attack on her own colleagues, Begley then blamed those she works with for her apparent lack of success. 

'Only to turn on the TV and watch a team normalize bad behavior: consistently late, not even mic’d up ten minutes before a show, then put it on air as a segment,' she wrote. 

'Where I come from, it’s a write-up, at the very least.'

Begley went on in her post that her stagnating career has left her struggling to buy groceries, saying she feels 'like a starving lion in a petting zoo.'

'How many more long walks to an empty refrigerator am I supposed to take, knowing I’m better than this? Knowing I actually stand for something real,' she continued.  

'And I know I’m not alone. A lot of people inside and outside this industry feel exactly like I do.

'They’d leave you dead on the side of the road and still ask for a comp day just to sit on standby. Can’t even mic up on time because a lack of discipline. And that’s how I know I can win.'

Begley said she has grown tired of not getting the promotion or status in the media industry she feels she deserves, and she 'won’t apologize for wanting a bigger share of this market so I can actually advocate for people like me.'

'That way I can eventually hire the folks like you and me — qualified, driven, but hearing nothing back,' she wrote.

'The ones with empty refrigerators who deserve so much better. Even though I really hate saying sorry.' 

After Begley's scathing social media post went viral, the meteorologist and traffic reporter said she did not intend to insult her colleagues, and only wanted to spark a discussion around mental health. 

She said it was 'not about' trashing her co-workers, but was meant to be 'about, after the pandemic, raising awareness about how to have healthy newsrooms across America.'

'When we don’t have a discipline to mic up 10 minutes ahead of time … the people behind the scenes, they don’t feel valued or seen, or it makes it stressful when it doesn’t have to be,' she told the New York Post.

However, she doubled down on her call for more recognition as a traffic reporter from the industry, saying she feels her hard work is not rewarded.

'I’m an amazing traffic reporter and it changed my life, but our Emmys, it was never considered a category even though it’s so hard,' she said.

'I have covered 32-car pileups, interstate shutdowns, people dying... I’ve seen the worst of the worst and I’ve really stood there for my community.' 

'I just really wish that they would have a traffic [Emmy] because we deserve it.'

The Daily Mail has contacted Begley via social media for further comment.