Look! Another Trump appointee mis-using their power

[Fanatical Meat]

drain the swamp bitches!

White is alleged to have misused support staff, asking them, among other things, to fetch her drycleaning, run to the pharmacy for her and work on her mortgage paperwork. Staffers also charge that she inappropriately transferred personnel after they filed complaints about her.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/pentagon-white-spox-probe/index.html

 

[Jhhnn]

drain the swamp bitches!



https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/pentagon-white-spox-probe/index.html

Just running govt like a business...

 

[UglyCasanova]

Support staff running to get dry cleaning is a bunch of nothing. Transferring them out if they complained is more serious.

 

[kage69]

Pentagon is a small contained city, so I don't have a problem with AAs grabbing a prescription at the pharmacy or something from the cafeteria. Those are onsite and meant to be used by employees. Having your AA work on your mortgage paperwork is entirely inappropriate however, as is complaint retribution. I hate seeing that kind of imperious attitude in leadership positions, that creates grudge-heavy environments.

The driving part I can kinda see though. People in VA and MD are insecure as hell about snow on the roads. Maybe she had RWD and didn't do winter tires? I found my winters in MD to be rather tame compared to New England.

 

[greatnoob]

This sounds incredibly similar to what one of our own dodgy politicians was caught up in recently:

Ms Husar also allegedly told a male worker to wash her dishes so as to learn about “white male privilege”.

Other staff members were allegedly required to live in Ms Husar’s home to babysit or perform other duties for the youngest of her three children.

The allegations, the subject of a three month long inquiry by former Labor Party staffer John Whelan for the NSW ALP head office, were denied by Ms Husar.

Husar is being investigated for bullying, harassment, verbal abuse, intimidation and misuse of staff.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-...ion-finds-staff-unreasonably-managed/10106424

It's as if these politicians we elect are only here to dip in to the taxpayers trough and exploit their positions of power for their own benefit.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

If the running errands had a purpose, for example. Her meeting at 2pm was changed to 11am and she’s getting on a plan at 5pm. I can easily understand sending someone who works with her to pick up dry cleaning.
Doesn’t sound like that’s the scenario with multiple people saying they’ve run multiple errands.

 

[sdifox]

Lol I would totally fuck up her mortgage application.

 

[vi edit]

Support staff running to get dry cleaning is a bunch of nothing. Transferring them out if they complained is more serious.

Agreed. If you are in a high level position in meetings non-stop and working 10+ hour days plus dealing with trying to get on/off work premise which can be tough at some of these places having an aid do basic "life" tasks seems like no big deal.

The more important thing comes down to what their job responsibilities were. If the job came with the idea of doing actual and important work and you were running around town as a high paid errand boy I can understand the complaints. If they are transferred out from those complaints that's an issue.