Does Kamala Harris run a 'toxic' workplace? VP allegedly treats staff ‘like shit'
By Divya Kishore
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July 1, 2021
The office of Kamala Harris is reportedly facing accusations of toxic
work culture as there are allegations that the staff members are
“treated like sh**”. It has also been said that Chief of Staff Tina
Flournoy fails to take responsibility for critical issues and is prompt
in playing blame games when things go wrong, as per a Politico report
that interviewed 22 current and former vice presidential aides,
administration officials, and associates of Harris and President Joe Biden.
According to the report, the atmosphere at the vice president’s
office began to become restless after Harris decided to visit the
border last week, but without informing her staff members. This resulted
in accusations of low morale and trust, and bad communication. Besides,
the sources alleged that Flournoy, apparently to protect Harris, has
created an environment where others' ideas are not given importance or
criticized very rudely. Though most of the accusations are against
Flournoy, two of the sources believe Harris is equally responsible. “It
all starts at the top,” one of the administration officials told
Politico.
Another insider said, “People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment. It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s---.” As per reports, some of Harris’ employees are thinking of resigning from their posts while a few of them have already done that, like staffers Karly Satkowiak and Gabrielle DeFranceschi, who were earlier responsible for supervising her travel.
A source said that DeFranceschi left the administration due to a “difference in opinion on how things should run.” “If you have an opinion about how things should run and it’s not listened to, that can be frustrating,” the person stated. However, Symone Sanders, senior advisor and chief spokesperson for Harris, dismissed the claims. She also defended Flournoy by saying she has an “open door policy” and that “Black women like me would not have the opportunity to work in politics without Tina.”
We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day.
What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the
club’. We have created a culture where people if there is anything
anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so. Whoever
has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly,”
she added. Sanders also has nice words for Harris as she stated that
the 56-year-old “is focused on the work, not the chatter at the water
cooler.”
Leah Daughtry, who has worked with Flournoy for decades
in Democratic politics, supported her and said: “Look, [Tina’s] strong,
she's intelligent, she's driven, and she expects strong, intelligent,
driven people around her. But some people may find strong, driven, smart
people intimidating, but I think that’s more projection than reality
because that’s just not Tina's intent or style. And nothing in her
experience would lead you to think that she’s an intimidating person.”
Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to the president, also defended Flournoy and explained why Harris' border trip was kept under wraps. She said, “It was closely held and there may be people whose feelings were a little hurt on her staff that they weren't brought into the discussion. But any suggestion that it was mishandled or kept a secret from people who needed to know about the arrangements or needed to know about it is absolutely not true.”
1 comment:
Wildly insecure people often do that, in order to constantly remind themselves that they are in charge. I strongly suspect that the rumors of Senile Joe looking for a way to squeeze her out are very much overblown. No way she is leaving except feet first. She desperately hopes he will stroke out before she is shown to be a complete grotesque incompetent and then she will be in an unassailable position. That being said, if Senile Joe manages to stay upright until 2024 he may be able to effectively blackball her from her own presidential run, assuming her own incompetence does not do it for him.
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