“In one of his first acts as campaign manager, Stepien notified staff working at the campaign’s headquarters that they should expect to work 18-hour days, including on the weekends, and be consumed by the campaign heading into the final stretch. ‘There’s some people in there that kind of fell into place, that don’t necessarily even want to be there,” one person said of the discussion. ‘It should be 18-hour days and it should be seven days a week. We’re 100 days out. If not now when?'” McClatchy DC reports.
“Many of the young aides had never worked on a presidential campaign before, and some had not intended to participate in one. The frequent staff purges in the White House resulted in some of the young aides working out of the Republican National Committee’s annex in Arlington, Va., as an alternative to finding other employment, and they had not been told what to expect.”