Antioch supervisor bullying includes putting workers desk on roof, employees say NBC Bay Area [Video]

Several Antioch Unified School District employees are coming forward with concerns of constant bullying by their supervisor, AUSD Director of Facilities, Maintenance and Operations Kenneth Turnage.

They believe Turnage’s close relationship with AUSD Superintendent Stephanie Anello and her husband, Antioch’s former police chief Allan Cantando, is the reason why he has not been properly disciplined.

At least 10 AUSD employees have complained about Turnage to district officials, the Investigative Unit has confirmed with some of the employees themselves and a district official.

In January 2023, Turnage instructed two people to use heavy equipment to move Jim Kesser’s desk to a roof in AUSD’s maintenance yard where Kesser works, according to several employees. Kesser told NBC Bay Area he believes the display was meant to publicly humiliate him for pushing back against his supervisor over instructions to do electrical and mechanical work when he’s a general maintenance worker.

“And he literally …