Former Vice President staff Kamala Harris are coming out of the woodwork to expose their “toxic behavior” in the workplace. Just four of his 71 starts personal hired during her first year as vice president remains on the job.
According to the daily mail, 67 staff members out of the original 71 in its initial wave of hires resigned or were fired. As far back as 2010, when he was California's attorney general, Harris was known to have a “toxic” work environment. Congressional sources told the outlet that Harris would berate staffers with expletive-laden diatribes and would often attack subordinates. He earned an alleged reputation as a “soul-destroying” bully in the workplace.
California State University professor Barbara O'Connor said if students interned at Harris, they would often come back crying and feeling “undervalued” in the office when she was a government official in California . Working for her in the Senate after her 2017 victory wasn't much different, according to the outlet. It had the ninth highest turnover rate of the 114 Senate offices during the years 2017 to 2020.
Witnesses recalled Harris insulting Senate staffers who didn't even work for her, ordering them, on one occasion, outside the main chamber of the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Anybody that's personal, get the hell out from here!” she shouted.
By the time he ran for president in 2020, the behavior was starting to pick up in the press. In a resignation letter published in the New York Times in 2019, Harris' director of state operations, Kelly Mehlenbacher, said of Harris: “This is my third presidential campaign, and I've never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly “.
“Morale has never been lower,” he wrote at the time. Harris soon dropped out of the presidential race, but Biden threw her a lifeline to be his running mate after he promised to have a black woman for his vice presidential pick.
In June 2021, Politico spoke to 22 people familiar with his vice president's office. All of them flatly said the team had “low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials.”
“It's not a place where people feel supported, it's a place where people feel treated like crap,” a source said at the time. Harris' office tried to keep a low profile, but more employees later came forward to denounce his office and how he treated subordinates In a subsequent report in the Washington Post in December 2021, staff members told the outlet that allegedly he would refuse to prepare for public appearances and then blame the staff when he didn't do well.
“It's clear [with Harris] that you're not working with someone who's willing to put in the preparation and the work,” said one former employee. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism as well as her own lack of confidence. . So you're constantly supporting a bully and it's not really clear why.”
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