Geez, does it never end in this county?  We’ve been harping on hostile work environment around here for how long now?  Transitional Assistance Department (TAD) management incompetence?  The stupidity of Service First when interpreted by Linda Haugen and her band of dumb-ass managers?  The lack of education of TAD managers costing taxpayers?

Let’s see.  I even met with Fourth District Deputy Chief of Staff Joy Chadwick over the fact that we are paying TAD directors $100,000-plus a year, they manage millions and millions of dollars in taxpayer money, and they don’t even have to have a high school diploma.  What did she do?  Nothing.  I mentioned the same to Assistant County Administrative Officer Dean Arabatzis and he chastised me for suggesting there might be something wrong with it.  And Human Resources Director Andrew Lamberto will do anything a pair of legs wants him to do, especially those belonging to one Ms. Haugen.

So, it should be no surprise that TAD managers do really stupid things.  After all, they are stupid.  Or perhaps ignorant is a better term.

A few days ago iePolitics posted a question about a rumor circulating that a TAD manager had been demoted to a EWIII position.  Well, the rumor is true.  Guess what she did among other things?

As TAD employees know, under Service First, welfare recipients are required to be called “customers” by employees, even though that is a complete perversion of the term.  “Perversion” is an important concept in this particular post but we will get to that in a moment.

In TAD, the “customer” is always right.  They can lie, cheat, steal, and defraud the system and the taxpayers all they want and they are doing so rightfully and without repercussions because that is the way Virginia Lugo wants it.  That is the way Linda Haugen wants.  After all, the more people receiving welfare, the higher the caseloads.  The higher the caseloads, the more funding San Bernardino County receives.  The more funding San Bernardino County receives, the bigger kingdom Haugen and others can build for themselves.  Thus, our county is in the business of aiding and abetting welfare cheats, but I digress.

Now, we find that San Bernardino County is also in the business of aiding and abetting perverts.  Okay, so we already knew that.  Just ask District Attorney Mike Ramos.  But at least Mike keeps his family jewels covered up when he is sitting in the lobby at the welfare department.  Not everyone does.

It seems a male client was sitting in the lobby of the Fontana TAD office masturbating.  I’m not sure what it is about Fontana as that is the same region Miss C—, “He’s going to marry me because he gave me a good poke” came from.  But I digress once again.

TAD managers are not known for their managerial skills.  Wow, now that’s a revelation!  So when the pervert couldn’t keep his junk covered up, the manager in her infinite wisdom told his worker, a female eligibility worker (EW), that she would just have to deal with it and provide excellent customer service anyway.  Personally, if that were me, my idea of excellent customer service would to be to service him with that dull letter opener waiting for a good use in my top drawer.  But this EW didn’t want to go to jail—not sure why anyone should have to go to jail for public service.

So a year later, the matter is finally resolved.  Yes, it took our illustrious leaders a year to figure out that forcing a female employee to service a masturbating “customer” (somehow the word “customer” now fits) might not be a good idea.  We hear that all TAD managers are now being forced to attend weekly introductory management classes.  Hmm . . . don’t ya think someone should have thought of that BEFORE promoting them to a managerial position.

Only in TAD!!!!