It must be quite something to work for Kamala Harris. It’s only been a little more than a year and a half and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen so many people fleeing for the exits from such an office. According to the Daily Mail, Biden’s White House had more than 30 senior staffers leave. Generally, you work hard to get there and you want to stick around. This means it must be pretty bad if you’re heading for the exits once you’ve reached this kind of position.

Two people announced earlier this month they were fleeing Kamala — Rohini Kosoglu, Harris’ domestic policy adviser, who had worked with Harris since her Senate days, and Meghan Groob, the director of speechwriting, who only held the job for about four months. I bet you didn’t even think she had a director of speechwriting, given what a jumble her speeches tend to be. Kosoglu came up with the lame excuse that she wanted to spend more time with family. Harris has also lost her chief of staff, deputy press secretary, and communications director, among the other people fleeing over the past year and a half.

Now, another senior aide is making for the exits. This latest person isn’t even bothering with an excuse for why he’s heading out, although he did make an obligatory comment about what a great experience it was.

Michael Collins — Harris’ director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs — is going to be leaving next month. He’s been in the office for 16 months.

“It has been a difficult decision, but I’ve decided to leave this amazing experience in the middle of August and transition to the next stage of my life,” Collins said in the letter. “I’m so grateful to the Vice President for trusting me with this privilege and was honored to support the President’s and Vice President’s tireless, committed and historic work.”

Collins previously worked as the chief of staff to former Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis prior to the congressman’s death in 2020. The duo had worked together for 21 years. Collins said his work with Harris was an extension of his work with Lewis in an interview with ABC News last year.

“I’m trying to live out his legacy. It’s been a journey — it’s been a journey,” Collins said. “I’m fortunate enough to now be working for the vice president of the United States. Her leadership is something that I’m looking forward to just embarking on in the world. And this is an extension of the work that I did with him, and I look forward to that tremendously.”

“Tireless, committed, and historic work” must be their redefinition of running the country into the ground. It’s certainly “historic” with historic levels of inflation. But I’m thinking, in addition to the tough working environment, that some are bailing out because they don’t want to be around when the ship truly goes down. They don’t want to get tagged with more failure.