We’ve seen lots of pictures featuring a happy-looking Kamala Harris in
recent days as her party tries to position her as a viable presidential
candidate, but many people who have worked with her in the past report
that there was no joy to be found in their interactions with her.
Although
she has long been accused of workplace bullying at different points in
her career, the fact that just four out of the 71 staffers she hired
during her first year in office are still with her is extremely telling.
Everyone else has either quit or been fired, which makes for a staff
turnover rate of 92 percent – an appalling figure that would leave any
business scrambling to make changes at the top in response.
Accusations
of running a toxic workplace have plagued Harris since her days as the
California Attorney General in the 2010s. For example, a professor at
California State University, Barbara O’Connor, reported that students of
hers who interned for Harris would often come to her in tears.
The
situation did not change when she became a senator, with an analysis
revealing that her office came in ninth place in staff turnover rates
among the 114 senators who served in the years from 2017 to 2020.
During
that time, sources in Congress report that she was known to berate her
subordinates and go on tirades full of expletives....<<<Read More>>>...