A senator’s chief of staff (CoS) has had enough. After what insiders described as months of quiet suffering, the CoS is finally walking away — his resignation effective 31 July — unable to stomach another day under a boss whose stubbornness, sources say, borders on the pathological.

“He’s quitting at the end of the month. He doesn’t want to die early because of his boss’ stubbornness. He won’t listen to him. He feels he is useless,” a source close to the outgoing staffer told Nosy Tarsee, painting a picture of an aide who tried — and failed, repeatedly — to save his principal from himself.

Those who’ve worked in the halls of the Senate know the type: the chief of staff who drafts the careful talking points, who edits out the landmines, who begs the boss to stick to the script for once. This one, insiders say, did all of that and more. The problem, according to the source, was never a lack of effort. It was a boss who simply would not listen — not to staff, not to counsel, not to the wreckage of his own soundbites.

And what soundbites they’ve been. The senator in question has built something of a cottage industry out of his own manifestations — off-the-cuff remarks so unmoored from the discourse they routinely go viral for the wrong reasons, transforming plenary sessions into fodder for memes rather than serious legislative debate.

Colleagues wince. Staff age in dog years. Now one of the people whose actual job is to prevent these episodes has decided he’d rather seek employment elsewhere than continue absorbing the fallout.

Sources say the resignation was not a snap decision but the culmination of a slow, grinding exhaustion — the sense, as the insider put it, of having become useless in a job that demanded influence he was never allowed to exercise.

It is, DAILY TRIBUNE sources note, an increasingly familiar story on the fifth floor: aides who arrive with genuine reformist energy, only to leave defeated by principals who mistake stubbornness for conviction.