Joe Schmidt, Market Basket’s suspended director of operations, spoke on the radio to do "the right thing." He was fired hours later.

According to the Market Basket Board of Directors, both Schmidt and Gordon were fired for making false and derogatory remarks about the company and people associated with it, and inappropriate communications with colleagues.

Two former top executives at Market Basket and allies of CEO Arthur T. Demoulas spoke out on July 23 about their recent firing.

Two Market Basket executives spoke out Wednesday after they were both informed a day earlier they were being fired from their positions after a combined 89 years working at the company.

The Market Basket Board of Directors on Tuesday afternoon fired Joe Schmidt and Tom Gordon, the company’s operations and grocery directors who had been suspended since May

One of Market Basket’s founding family members, Arthur T. Demoulas, is blasting away at the private equity group that has a major ownership stake and he says is ruining the company. The chain has dozens of locations across New England, including two in Rhode Island.