Kanye West said he would stop talking for a month last week and as such he hasn’t been dominating the headlines like he has for the past month with all the random crap that comes out of his mouth.

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However, Rolling Stone posted up a massive article yesterday about what it was like working for him behind the scenes at Yeezy and well, it sounds absolutely awful and just as chaotic as his social media feed would probably have you believe. One former worker even alleges that they were fired from the company after suggesting that Kanye play Drake on the office speaker rather than his own music.

Here’s what the report said:

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WEEKS BEFORE West was about to show his first collection, he was at his studio space with his team, a talented crew of designers and apparel-makers that had been lured away from Europe’s top fashion houses. And, as West often did, he was playing his own music through the studio’s speakers.

After someone suggested he play something else, West looked around the room, landing on a nearby Yeezy employee and asking them what he should play. The staffer, who leaned more punk and rock than hip-hop, tells Rolling Stone they were caught off-guard and fumbled for an answer. “I thought, ‘Oh, he’s a rapper, I should probably mention some rap,’” the early staffer tells Rolling Stone. The staffer landed on Drake. “Big mistake — the next day I was fired,” the former staffer claims.

Abrupt firings were the norm at Yeezy, with staffers all describing the office as a revolving door of talent. There were also random mass layoffs.One staffer says they were laid off right before the Gap deal was announced, only to be offered their job back five times in the space of a few weeks.

These sudden and seemingly baseless firings led to employees feeling like their jobs were in constant jeopardy. Every day felt like an audition for their current job, two Yeezy sources describe. Anything could set West off, sources say, and the reasons could be as innocuous as wearing the wrong color.

Geez. That does sound hectic and not a fun work environment to be a part of whatsoever, but I suppose that’s the price you pay for working with the genius of someone like Kanye West/Ye. Is it a price worth paying though?

For more of the same, check out Kanye West accusing his personal trainer of trying to drug him. Bit of a tangent there.