Trapped In The White House: Many Trump Aides Are Too Toxic To Get Jobs
Source: BuzzFeed
Trump administration officials looking to escape to the private sector are getting a rude awakening: No one wants to hire them.
Companies and firms who used to recruit from presidential administrations and brag when they were successful in poaching an aide are making the calculation that the risks of bringing on a Trump administration official outweigh the rewards, according to interviews with 10 current and former administration officials, top recruiters, and lobbyists who did not want to be named to talk candidly. BuzzFeed News reached out to them after previously reporting during an especially chaotic stretch for the Trump White House that some officials were trying to leave but finding their job prospects to be pretty bleak. Thats especially pronounced for more junior staff.
The leadership at a prominent, bipartisan Washington public affairs firm went as far as to make an active decision not to hire from the Trump White House because of the "reputational risk" associated with it, a former White House official was recently told. The official asked BuzzFeed News not to disclose the name of the firm.
In another case, a White House official said he was rejected out of the blue for a job after being given indications he would be hired and was explicitly told his affiliation with the Trump White House had been a problem for some at the company.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/trump-aides-jobs?utm_term=.gs2Eqrg6J#.rl2pbnvoQ
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)now they have to deal with the taint.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)more than the typical federal employee who has a lot more education and experience, and actually are working a lot harder than the typical Trump hire. There was an article on here about a month ago that talked about all the Trump employees who were maxing out at top salaries which were intended for well qualified applicants with high credentials but that the people doing the firing were all former campaign workers with no professional experience themselves. These people not knowing what they were doing were hiring anyone who applied and were giving them top salaries because they didn't know any better. Many were in their early 20s, had worked on the Trump campaign and were making in the high 6 figures. The article mentioned one lady in the hiring department who had served in the previous administration and had some experience had been put in charge of the process, and had bought 4 family members on board and placed them in well paid positions.
Omarosa Manigault who was fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly and was said to spend all her workday gossiping with Trump in the Oval Office along with lots of other young staffers was said to be earning $181,000 when she was fired. Manigault who's claim to fame was being an "Apprentice" on Trump's show and later became a Pastor. Sarah Huckabee Sanders whose only jobs have been working on her father's campaigns in Arkansas is the WH Spokesperson and receives the maximum salary.
In contrast, my salary when I worked in the Washington DC area for the federal government as a Contract Administrator GS-13 Step 5 in 2012 was $103,000, and I actually had a real job with real responsibilities.
Hope Hicks who was a model for Ivanka Trump's clothing line before being hired as a Trump Organization 'Communications Director.'
...Hicks is a former model and public relations professional who is 29 years old. A document released last summer by the White House revealed that the highest annual salary for staffers was $179,700. A total of 22 White House personnel earned that $179,700 per year, and Hope Hicks was among them.
Hicks was then listed as Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Communications. Several of the other White House staffers who were earning $179,700 per year have already left the administration, including Steve Bannon, Omarosa Manigault, K.T. McFarland, Robert Porter, Reince Priebus, and Sean Spicer. Dina Powell, another $179,700-per-year Trump staffer, resigned recently in her role as deputy national security and has rejoined Goldman Sachs, where she worked before being hired by the White House.
Staffers making $179,700 annually who are still employed at the White House include Tom Bossert, Kellyanne Conway, and Stephen Miller. With the exception of 32-year-old senior policy advisor Miller, Hicks is at least a decade younger than all of these individuals.
http://time.com/money/5180808/hope-hicks-resigns-salary-money-donald-trump/
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)15 months taking care of grandpa with Alzheimers, who recently died. Or say they worked at a gas station or KFC.
genxlib
(5,527 posts)Except I was thinking they would be better off saying they were in prison. At the rate things are going it might be true soon enough.
dalton99a
(81,496 posts)It's not like they're unemployable or lacking transferable skills
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)since the moron is too cheap to pay them. Her dates are definately going to be paying the bills for a very long time. the "Eye Candy" will be shopping for a "sugar daddy" if she hasn't been already.
Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Picked Junior's wife. Amazing resemblance to stormy
Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)from this quarter.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)that's what I try to do.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They might have lots of cellphones laying around with dirt in 'em.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)If they aren't directly involved in anything, they can get jobs when all this is over.
They just better hope they don't get fired, if they're having trouble finding other work when they are leaving voluntarily.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)You might get indicted.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)National Enquirer? Or one of the Sinclair stations? Hey, maybe Scooter Libby is gonna be hiring now?
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)available. They don't pay real well or have many benefits and require drug tests, but then that's the capitalism and free market the Republicans believe in, so no problem!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)At this stage, it looks like Amazon is more of a person than Trump is.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administrations efforts to place qualified people in key posts across government, documents and interviews show.
At the same time, two office leaders have spotty records themselves: a college dropout with arrests for drunken driving and bad checks and a Marine Corps reservist with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an officer and underage drinking.
...
PPO leaders hosted happy hours last year in their offices that included beer, wine and snacks for dozens of PPO employees and White House liaisons who work in federal agencies, White House officials confirmed. In January, they played a drinking game in the office called Icing to celebrate the deputy directors 30th birthday. Icing involves hiding a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, a flavored malt liquor, and demanding that the person who discovers it, in this case the deputy director, guzzle it.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Therefore:
THOUGHTS & PRAYERS
Hope that helps them.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)"I see on your resume that you have a lot of experience in political circles in Washington, but it all ends in November, 2016. What happened after that?"
"Well, I, um... I , um... I took some time off to rehabilitate my crack addiction and spend more time developing my exclusive
scat porn site on the web."
(Long, relieved sigh) That's good. For a minute there, we thought you were working for the Trump campaign during that time.(Laughs)
Of course not!
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)in my head as I read it. That's how unbelievably plausible it is.
Man, what a trainwreck this has become. 🙈
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)But I'm willing to make an exception in this case.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)WHERE IS MY TINY VIOLIN
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)also include GOP politicians up for election at all levels, because they certainly also are toxic.
NickB79
(19,243 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Need a scarlet 'T' to hang on them.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)NBachers
(17,110 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)anyone else hire them?
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Then you would clearly be insane, or criminal or both
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)The goal would be to charter a leaky freighter to haul their sorry asses from DC to a convenient Russian port St Petersburg, Vladivostok or Novorossiysk...
From there, Putin could help them launch new careers. Cleaning toilets in the Moscow subway (after cleaning up Cadet Bone Spurs messes), shoveling snow in Siberia (following their success in shoveling bullshit), maybe even joining an Internet troll-team, at least until theyre uncovered and locked out.
Id pony up a few dollars just to get them off our soil!
brush
(53,778 posts)Gothmog
(145,243 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)spooky3
(34,454 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)Thought for sure that that would be a great resume builder, huh?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Minimum wage with no benefits, just like the GOP likes.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Next time they should choose their employers and company more wisely.
brush
(53,778 posts)Conway maybe can con her way into another job with her gish gallop skills but SandersGod, that snotty attitude and sneer might be problematic in interviews.
Nitram
(22,801 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)make yourself useful a few yrs! Get ajob with Americorps or a nonprofit support agency for disabled people or an organic farm or something. And then figure out how to reinvent yourself and what else you might want to do when you grow up.
I suspect though that these are all victims of Affluenza and are under the delusion that they deserve a 6 figure salary, its either that or nothing.