Schadenfreude anyone?
Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. en.wikipedia.org/...
There’s an understatement.
Even in the beginning,
it was a tough sell getting qualified folks to work for Trump—
Feb 17, 2017-
No One Wants to Work for the Trump Administration Anymore, Huh?
The first candidate to be asked to fill Michael Flynn’s vacated position turns it down.
Our current president, as well as Donald Trump, has a tough task ahead of him. After National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned amid a scandal that saw him making U.S. foreign policy as a private citizen and undermining President Obama before "President Trump" was "inaugurated," President Bannon will need to get on finding his replacement as soon as possible. Also, he'll probably have to pick up more Crayons for Donald and some top-shelf huffing glue for himself, but mostly he's going to have to be focused on filling Flynn's job. That is already proving harder than anticipated, as the regime's first choice for the job, well-respected Navy SEAL and current vice admiral Robert Harward, gave the White House a fast "thanks, but no thanks." This comes via The Financial Times:
“Harward is conflicted between the call of duty and the obvious dysfunctionality,” said one person with first hand knowledge of the discussions between Mr Trump and Mr Harward. www.gq.com/...
None of them saw this coming?
Bueller?
From March 9, 2018-
Why working for Trump turns out to be such a bad career move
A few months after being fired as White House communications director—after just ten days on the job—Anthony Scaramucci told me that working in the Trump White House was like a bad airplane flight. “Lots of turbulence, plus the passengers are knifing one another while the plane is bouncing up and down.”
...Usually people kill for the chance to work for the president of the United States. It’s the honor of a lifetime. You’re shaping history. You go onto the Oval Office and fly on Air Force One. But when the president is Donald Trump, the allure is diminished.
“The administration has become toxic,” Myrow says. “They’re not going to be able to get any ‘A-team’ players from the outside at this point. They’re probably not going to get anyone from the ‘B-team.’” He says the president at this point is just “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
One way of judging just how toxic: Look at all the big names who have departed and how they’ve fared. Scaramucci, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former press secretary Sean Spicer, former advisor Steve Bannon are all struggling to find work. Others are in even worse shape: Former national security advisor Mike Flynn, who pleaded guilty in December to lying to the FBI agents about his interactions with Russian officials, is not only unemployed but on the verge of bankruptcy. Up to his neck in legal bills, he’s trying to sell his Virginia home (3 beds, 2.5 baths, $834,000) but no takers. All of these officials, and many others, emerged from the Trump White House with diminished reputations that will dog them forever. www.marketwatch.com/…
But you CAN always just leave, right?
April 13, 2018-
No One Wants to Hire Trump Aides Trying to Escape the White House
Sad!
Whether it's because the White House is a dysfunctional mess, Donald Trump's administration is waging war against the poor and the rule of law, or the president has a bad habit of saying terribly racist things about entire countries, for whatever reason, some of Trump's aides are looking to ditch their jobs.
The only problem? Now that they've worked in the White House, no one wants to hire them.
According to BuzzFeed News, current and former White House officials are having a tough time landing gigs in the private sector. One official told BuzzFeed that it looked like he'd locked down a new job, but he ultimately lost it—and was straight-up told folks at his prospective employer weren't down with the fact that he'd worked for Trump. www.vice.com/...
Fast food restaurants, seasonal hiring, and White Houses always do this—
JUNE 14, 2018—
No One Wants to Work at the White House So It’s Having a Job Fair on Friday
“Believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House. They all want a piece of that Oval Office, they all want a piece of the West Wing,” he said. “I could take any position in the White House and I’ll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position, everybody wants to be there.” White House economic adviser Gary Cohn quit hours later.
Three months after Trump’s boasts, the steady stream of departing White House officials shows no sign of slowing, but the administration has a plan to replace them. It’s holding a job fair. The “Executive Branch Job Fair” is set for Friday at the Dirksen Senate Office Building and, according to a flier published by Politico, the Trump administration is looking for “competent conservatives” of “every experience level.”
Turns out, this isn’t typical. Politico spoke to an Obama administration official who said that they didn’t even bother to list jobs when they opened up in the White House. nymag.com/...
Because thinking ahead requires thinking—
12-10-18 ‘There was no Plan B’:
Trump scrambles to find chief of staff after top candidate turns him down
In any White House, the chief of staff is arguably the most punishing position. But in
this White House — a den of disorder ruled by an impulsive president — it has proved to be an especially thankless job. The two people to hold the job were left with their reputations diminished after failing to constrain the president, who often prefers to function as his own chief of staff...
Although aides said the president is committed to finding a replacement for Kelly before the Christmas holiday, they said he has been vacillating — casting about in all corners for potential picks and frustrated by news coverage depicting his White House as a place where talented people do not want to work…
Publicly, Trump has sought to project an air of nothing-to-see-here calm...
In reality, however, Trump was left at the altar. www.washingtonpost.com/...
The real reason no one wants to work for Trump—
12-11-18 No One Wants to be Trump's Chief of Staff Because the Job Sucks
After telling John Kelly “you’re fired,” the man who previously made a living hiring people to do shitty tasks has discovered that the position of White House chief of staff is so undesirable that no one wants to sign up for his dumb White House reality show.
The president just knew that Vice President Pence’s lackey would be more than willing to jump at the job but Nick Ayers learned that being chief of staff meant sometimes having to hop in and help change the president’s diaper after a full bucket of KFC and he said, “I’m good, dog.” www.theroot.com/…
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Thanks to Mvgal92691 for this sweet tweet from yesterday.
10 others clamoring for the job, my ass.
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(Am taking 3 days of 8 hour classes. Will check in at noon, if I can. Wish me well.)