As Robert Mueller’s Russia probe enters a crucial phase, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, cannot get himself a good lawyer. The random assemblage that constitutes his legal team bears similar hallmarks to the hodgepodge group of B- and C-listers employed in his White House, where Chief of Staff John Kelly is at equal pains to recruit top—or even mid-level—talent. Working for Trump is a nearly impossible task, and working for the people Trump has tapped to run key agencies of government, it seems, is equally Sisyphean. According to Politico, the president’s reputation and the mangled inner workings of his administration have kicked off an epidemic of ennui among the hundreds of thousands of federal employees crucial to the daily function of government.

Federal civil servants normally stay in their positions, even when new administrations with different political ideologies take over the White House. But with the Trump administration, nearly three dozen civil servants told Politico, they’ve been shunned by their friends, family, and peers outside government. “There is a palpable feeling of disgust for people working for the administration around town,” an employee at Health and Human Services told Politico. “I’ve quit going on dates that I meet on Hinge or the other dating apps because the four that I have been on the past month have all gotten upset I ‘work for Trump.’” Others mentioned increased anxiety and depression, as well as heavier drinking. (The slashing of public-service benefits like student-loan forgiveness, federal pensions, and retirement contributions has done nothing to endear them to the Trump administration.)

The ennui is even worse in their professional lives, where employees at agencies like Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency say they have seen their core missions changed or even demolished overnight. Others described living in constant fear that Trump’s budget proposals would end in them being laid off en masse. And given the constantly mercurial state of the Trump administration—policies changing at the drop of a hat, leadership hired and fired on a whim, political appointees undermining existing management, and an increasing sense that their overseers are deeply partisan and ignorant of the issues—their workplace environment has reportedly grown worse than toxic.

For Larry Meinert, who spent six years as a senior official at the United States Geological Survey, the last straw came late last year when he was asked to supply a report on updated oil reserve forecasts to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke before the tightly held and market-sensitive information was made public—a request he considered a bridge too far, ethically.