From top to bottom, Trump's White House churns through staff: report

[Yonnie3]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forty percent of the staff members who were working a year ago in U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House have since left for other jobs, a new report shows, providing a snapshot of the chaos among Trump’s closest subordinates.

At all levels of seniority and pay levels, Trump staff churn has exceeded that of the executive office of former President Barack Obama, with a noticeably larger turnover among top aides, according to an annual report on the White House payroll released late on Friday and reviewed by Reuters.

In the top tier of staff, Trump’s White House has so far had the highest turnover of any modern administration, said Martha Kumar, a Towson University political scientist emeritus.

That hurts Trump’s ability to advance his policies in coordination with outside allies, said Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project, who has kept track of the turnover since the Reagan administration.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-turnover/from-top-to-bottom-trumps-white-house-churns-through-staff-report-idUSKBN1JS24D

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When I was a supervisor or manager, if I had burned through 40% of my staff I would have been fired.

[FSogol]

1. All the Best People!

[genxlib]

2. 40% have left for other jobs.

OK, but how many more have left and are unemployable elsewhere?

[Phoenix61]

4. Awe, you made me smile. nt

[genxlib]

7. That makes me happy

[zipplewrath]

6. Grifters

You got 3 types causing the churn.

1) Grifters, they started looking for new jobs as soon as they were hired because they could put "White House Staff" on their resume
2) Incompetent. They never should have been hired, but got a job through connections and quickly exposed their incompetence.
3) Frustrated. They thought they'd get to advance policies and ideas and quickly found out they were basically clerks in a circus.

So who is left? Those not smart enough to get out, not dumb enough to get fired, and unambitious enough to just get a check and watch the circus.

[genxlib]

8. Where do the "holy-shit-this-guy-really-is-crazy" category fit?

[zipplewrath]

9. #3

Basically in #3. Although there's probably a group #4 that's basically "gettin' while the gettin' is good".

[Yonnie3]

10. Perhaps there will be a #4

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4) Outright Crook (as opposed to grifter): Serving a sentence for crimes committed as a Federal employee.

Edit to clarify

[yonder]

11. Circus clerks, I like it. His fine-tuned machine is running alright...for the doors.

[erronis]

3. They were installed to be dysfunctional. They've done their jobs. Now to be rewarded.

Rewarded not in some heavenly afterlife, but rewarded by 6+ digit salaries under the thumbs of the RW-crats. They've gutted social programs, installed their sperming-vermin in many agencies. They've made the US government a laughing-stock of the rest of the world.

Good Job! You deserve your nest egg - nest of snakes.

[Yonnie3]

5. Top level had the most turnover

'rump can't say that others were to blame for the turnover. Highest level was above 55%

Nice graphic with levels and comparison to the former administration at:

http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/USA-TRUMP-TURNOVER/0H0012Y8718Q/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

12. I think the moron likes it this way.

He likes to run things his way and by himself. This is what he wanted...get rid of all those pesky govt people who cramp his style of slash and burn.