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White House staffers are reportedly “aggravated” and even triggered by President Joe Biden’s dealing with of the standard “departure pictures” supplied when a chief govt leaves workplace.
From Friday morning’s version of Politico Playbook:
As grim actuality has set in following DONALD TRUMP’s election victory, these staffers toiling away within the West Wing and EEOB have had one thing else sapping their morale — and blowing up their group chats: a rising concern that they may not get their departure pictures with the president, a significant memento for many who have served on this and previous administrations.
“It was one small, good factor to stay up for for staffers coping with the aftermath of Election Day and the tip of their time on campus. Instead, dozens of them have grown upset,” defined the authors of the favored e-newsletter.
Biden reportedly took a number of months off from posing for the photographs, till final week, when the Office of Management and Administration despatched an e-mail to employees saying that it was “happy to ask all present EOP political appointees for a departure photograph to have a good time your time and work whereas on the White House.”
“The subsequent sentence, nevertheless, was a bummer for many who, given the precedent, had deliberate to deliver dad and mom and spouses alongside for his or her presidential send-off: ‘These will probably be particular person clicks (no company) with the President within the Oval Office,”” reported Playbook.
And that’s not the place the exhausting emotions finish:
“Instead of everybody being aggravated by no departure pictures, now it’s solely half of the people who find themselves aggravated,” one present administration official mentioned.
But “aggravated” could also be understating the sentiments of former administration officers who haven’t gotten departure pictures with Biden. The flood of Instagram and LinkedIn posts of POTUS pictures by extra junior staffers, a few of whom have solely been working on the White House for months, has been somewhat triggering for extra senior former White House officers who moved to different businesses or exterior authorities.
“Like why did I see an intern turned employees assistant get a photograph earlier than me?” one former official requested their colleagues in a single group textual content that was shared with Playbook.
This isn’t the primary time spirits have been low on Team Biden. Back in 2021, White House aides had been reportedly demoralized over not being invited vacation events. And extra lately, Biden’s marketing campaign suffered a morale disaster after his efficiency in his June debate with Donald Trump.
