Your Measure D Tax Dollars Surfing at Work
Next time you are spending your free time surfing at Ledbetter Beach, look around. There may be a Caltrans Engineer who is surfing next to you while he is getting paid with your tax money.
In fact, Jason Kline, a Caltrans Engineer in Santa Barbara was honored with a trophy for
"Outstanding Achievement - Most Surfing on a Sick Day".
The supervisors, Alan Haag, Jeff Abercrombie, Les Inagaki and Scott Kennedy knew about such misuses of paid State time, but did not correct the malfeasance, thus wasting our stretched out "tax dollars at work".
What happens to such people? Instead of being fired, Jason Kline was promoted to Senior Construction Engineer, and
as of 2024 his LinkedIn page reads
"Jason Kline
Civil Engineer / Surfboard Shaper at Caltrans".
Next time you are working and wish that you were surfing, think about the Measure D and Measure A money that you are paying so that Caltrans workers can surf.
Reader Comments:
So, if you get hurt surfing, cut your elbow on a reef, is this qualified
as Worker's Comp?
If you are on Worker's Comp, what do you do, go
skiing?
Where do you find these jobs?