Why do people (like Rinse) stay in a job when they know their boss doesn't like them?

[Honeycombe8]

When they are sidelined, power taken away from them, the boss clearly doesn't like them. Why do people stay and try to tough it out, instead of getting feelers out for a new position?

Why wouldn't Rinse have left earlier and moved on? He's a lawyer w/important connections. He could get a plumb job for big bucks at a law firm, and possibly a beefy pundit job with some network. He's a rich, well connected guy. Why take abuse and humiliation?

Is it that they get giddy with the importance of the job? With being in the West Wing?

[MyNameGoesHere]

1. Daddy issues

[leftstreet]

2. For most of us, it's to buy things like groceries

But you're right - for him it's different

who knows

[Honeycombe8]

8. He doesn't have to worry about money. He's rich, and he's a lawyer...

He's a well connected lawyer, so could get paid more working for a law firm. He could also get a beefy pundit job to give opinions on network shows. That pays well.

So it's not the money.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Nice paycheck...

...excellent health care. Loves God, guns, money, Trump, Football, beer...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I think it's exactly the prestige associated with the West Wing.

That prestige now seems to be fading, but being that close to power and great importance, or at least the trappings of it, is very enticing, at least to some people.

[Tatiana]

5. This.

It's not money. It's being near the seat of power. Meetings with important people -- people who, even given his connections, he would not interact with as a lawyer or as head of the RNC.

I also think a small part of it was seeing the true horror that is DJT and feeling a small duty to manage some modicum of normalcy and decorum given the total chaos of that WH.

When the GOP realizes that they may not be able to squeeze their prized tax cuts out of the Congress, they will abandon him.

[Honeycombe8]

14. I think all these things, maybe. Plus, he was placed there as a rep for the establishment Repub.

So he probably felt some loyalty & responsibility to stay, maybe, and represent the establishment, the leadership of the Republicans.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Yeah...I can see how that would be heady. nt

[marylandblue]

6. He always viewed his real boss as the Republican Party

His job was to save it from Trump. Now that he failed, both Trump and the Republicans are going to sink that much faster.

[Honeycombe8]

10. That's interesting and has a ring of truth, since he represented the establishment.nt

[Hoyt]

7. What's he going to do, quit and get a job running the KKK for minimum wage?

[Honeycombe8]

9. He's a well connected lawyer. He could have his pick of law firm jobs.

He could also get a well paid job as a pundit for network. One of the opinion guys under contract who goes on political talk shows & analyzes. That pays pretty well. He's also rich already.

[Hoyt]

15. Maybe. I think being tainted by Trump will hurt a lot of former aides.

[HipChick]

11. It's the prestige...not the paycheck..

[trof]

12. $$$$$$$$$$$