The Most Toxic Working Environment on the Planet

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/14/the-most-toxic-working-environment-on-the-planet/

‘The Most Toxic Working Environment on the Planet’
March 14, 2018 at 4:52 pm EDT
By Taegan Goddard

In 14 months covering this White House, Jonathan Swan says he’s “never registered such a mood of acute anxiety from within the West Wing.”

“Nobody knows what exactly is happening, who’s about to be fired, or which staffer will next be frogmarched out the door by security for some shadowy clearance issue.”

Said one official: “This is the most toxic working environment on the planet. Usually tough times bring people together. But right now this atmosphere is ripping people apart. There’s no leadership, no trust, no direction and this point there’s very little hope. Would you want to go to work every day not knowing whether your future career was going to be destroyed without explanation?”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I keep coming back to that old saying -

"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas." Maybe these folks didn't figure on the amazing level of the infestation, but anybody with two neurons firing together ought to run away from that mess as fast as they can, while they might still have a few shreds of a career to salvage. Personally, I wouldn't hire a former Trump employee to mow my lawn.

[Lindsay]

2. Raise your hand,

anybody who didn't see this coming during the campaign.

*crickets*

[lpbk2713]

3. I've worked in that kind of environment.

But I'm sure what I have seen is nowhere near as it would be under Trump & Co.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Same here.

Totally nerve wracking. I quit less than a year in, as it got even worse.

turned out, the head of the agency had been stealing from the company, teh dept. heads were so busy fighting for power they ignored the programs, did not discover that some programs were not even billing vendors for services for months.
So the agency was bleeding to death and no one took the initiative to even investigate.
Everybody who had even a wee drop of power was feuding with other people, no one was minding the store, so to speak.

couple of months after I left, the head honcho killed himself.

anyone with an ounce of sanity would not stand for an environment like that.

[lindysalsagal]

4. If he selected them, and they accepted, their real problem is not anxiety.

It's brainlessness.

[PaulX2]

5. Money For Lawyers Needed

Not like Trumps gonna pay.

[CakeGrrl]

6. Loading up the administration with know-nothing liars, grifters, and racists

what could possibly go wrong?

[MLAA]

7. Exactly