Your office is the trunk of your car.
You could use the adjunct office, the one that you share with 24 other adjuncts, but the college is using it to store all of the excess computer equipment and all of the excess chairs.
The branch manager lets you use one of the extra computers out in the main office.
You do NOT have a college voicemail or phone extension, let alone a phone.
The college IT department got your email account working by the sixth week of class this semester, about the same time that the office set up your physical mailbox.
The custodian demanded to see ID when you went in the office alone in the evening.
other than that:
You have never actually met your department chair.
Yes!
No one from the department has ever observed your class, in fact, no one in the department other than the night manager and the payroll clerk knows what you look like, but they are going to rehire you on the basis of
those students' evaluations. (That is a scary thought for the future of higher education.)
You are grateful for $564 per class per month and this beats taking a night job at 7-11.
