"President Donald Trump’s longtime executive assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, abruptly resigned from the White House on Thursday, after coming under scrutiny for sharing intimate details about the president’s family with reporters, according to two sources familiar with the move.
In the past six months, Westerhout had tried to expand the boundaries of her job to encompass a broader set of tasks and to include foreign travel, said one adviser close to the White House, who suggested Westerhout had tried to act like a de facto chief of staff. This irked several White House officials and Cabinet secretaries who thought she should stick to her primary task of serving as the president’s personal secretary with a desk just outside the Oval Office..."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/29/trump-madeleine-westerhout-white-house-1478767
some people just don't understand the boundries of their jobs, trying to do more than they are responsible for, and steping on the toes who job it really belons too.
sometimes for all of the good reasons & other times for a ego trip?
it happens in every company in the country, with, unfortunally some people advancing the self importance, costing others their jobs