WH staff bitter about Biden's crummy treatment of staffers
Dec 23, 2021 23:56:57 GMT -5
Post by Honoria on Dec 23, 2021 23:56:57 GMT -5
White House staff bitter about Joe Biden's crummy treatment of low-level staffers
December 23, 2021
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden, underneath all his "Scranton Joe" marketing the press presents, isn't exactly the young guy's, or the new staffer's, or the out-of-towner's friend when the cameras are off.
News has leaked out that he treats White House staffers even more crummily than his sidekick Kamala Harris does, and they're bitter. They're leaking to the press now about it, and mass numbers of them are planning to flee in early 2022.
Politico got the dirt:
In the first year of the Biden White House, comradery[sic] has been fleeting and many teams are suffering from low morale, according to several White House officials.
The result: many White House aides are feeling gloomy this holiday season, so much so that they anonymously fumed to West Wing Playbook in the hope it may alert senior leaders to the problem.
Many are also currently eyeing the exits, creating the potential for higher-than-usual turnover at the beginning of the year, when aides feel they’ve been in the job long enough that it won’t look odd to depart.
"A lot of the natural coordination that happens in a typically functioning White House has been lost, and there has been no proactive effort to make up for it through intentional team building," said one White House official.
Seems the fine art of mentoring has been lost on the Bidenites now that the staff are planning to jump ship.
The matter veers into the ridiculous when the details come out about the tiny, stupid things they are denying to their apparently hardworking staff:
They were particularly hurt by being excluded, they said, from holiday traditions like the pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey and tours of the White House Christmas decorations.
'It's also hypocritical and ironic that a president whose brand is built on empathy and family has staff policies that fly in the face of that brand,' one staff member told the outlet.
'It's not a good look, and it's emblematic of how this place runs.'
What could be going on with this? Isn't Biden the man who, unlike Kamala Harris, rewards his cronies?
At first glance, it seems that way.
Continued at link
December 23, 2021
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden, underneath all his "Scranton Joe" marketing the press presents, isn't exactly the young guy's, or the new staffer's, or the out-of-towner's friend when the cameras are off.
News has leaked out that he treats White House staffers even more crummily than his sidekick Kamala Harris does, and they're bitter. They're leaking to the press now about it, and mass numbers of them are planning to flee in early 2022.
Politico got the dirt:
In the first year of the Biden White House, comradery[sic] has been fleeting and many teams are suffering from low morale, according to several White House officials.
The result: many White House aides are feeling gloomy this holiday season, so much so that they anonymously fumed to West Wing Playbook in the hope it may alert senior leaders to the problem.
Many are also currently eyeing the exits, creating the potential for higher-than-usual turnover at the beginning of the year, when aides feel they’ve been in the job long enough that it won’t look odd to depart.
"A lot of the natural coordination that happens in a typically functioning White House has been lost, and there has been no proactive effort to make up for it through intentional team building," said one White House official.
Seems the fine art of mentoring has been lost on the Bidenites now that the staff are planning to jump ship.
The matter veers into the ridiculous when the details come out about the tiny, stupid things they are denying to their apparently hardworking staff:
They were particularly hurt by being excluded, they said, from holiday traditions like the pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey and tours of the White House Christmas decorations.
'It's also hypocritical and ironic that a president whose brand is built on empathy and family has staff policies that fly in the face of that brand,' one staff member told the outlet.
'It's not a good look, and it's emblematic of how this place runs.'
What could be going on with this? Isn't Biden the man who, unlike Kamala Harris, rewards his cronies?
At first glance, it seems that way.
Continued at link