A newly published analysis in the Washington Post adds new credibility to previous reports throughout the summer that Vice President Kamala Harris is difficult to work for, as evidenced by the constant stream of staffers exiting her office.

“The rumors started circulating in July: Vice President Harris’s staff was wilting in a dysfunctional and frustrated office, burned out just a few months after her historic swearing-in and pondering exit strategies,” the Post’s report begins.

“A few days later, Harris hosted an all-staff party at her official residence, where most of her office bit into hamburgers and posted pictures of smiling, congenial co-workers on Twitter, pixelated counterpoints to the narrative of an office in shambles,” the report continued.

The Post went on to note that Symone Sanders, then Harris’ chief spokesperson, “gushed” in social media posts about the event before going on to label unnamed critics of the VP “cowards” while nevertheless acknowledging that working for her was hard.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day,” she told one news outlet. “What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club.’”

But just five months later, Sanders announced that she, too, is leaving, becoming “the highest-profile member of an end-of-year exodus” that also included communications director Ashley Etienne and a pair of other staff members “who help shape the vice president’s public image,” the Post’s report said.