Sunday, October 13, 2024

Opinion: Abuse in the Office, Love in the Home? - Illinois Review

It’s a management style, a fondness for tyrannizing an office, for abusing the individual and deflecting blame. - John F. Di Leo
  • According to these stories, deep in this modern, liberal enclave of southern California, office life with Emhoff was a throwback to the days of Billy Wilder’s classic film “The Apartment” or of the hit TV series “Mad Men.” Emhoff would hire people based on their looks, harass employees at will, blow up at staffers and female partners in meetings, and famously “put associates in their place.” To hear the Daily Mail tell it, working for Doug Emhoff is a rung on one’s career ladder that only a masochist could love.
Add to this the quiet revelations over the years of how Kamala Harris treats her employees, and we get a better picture of their relationship.
  • Kamala Harris hasn’t been in Washington all that long – just six years – but in that time she’s built up an unusual statistic: she has the worst staff retention record in Washington. Only about 10% of her staffers stayed with her more than a year or two, both when she was a US Senator and since being installed in the vice-presidency. As of this summer, 91.5% of the staffers she started with in the executive branch have quit or been fired...

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