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[mntwins]

the trunk of your car holds all of your materials (i.e., your mobile storage unit)

[ann05]

I think it's very much individual schools. I'm an adjunct at a large public institution with a departmental chair who is so awesome cartoon birds probably land on his hand when he sings. While some of this stuff in this thread is still true (I haven't met almost any of the faculty, who probably think I'm a grad student); I have an office, a mailbox, a bit of respect, office supplies, desk copies, and count myself very, very lucky.

[vampyjess]

Coming to this thread late, but I have been cracking up!!!!

My additions:

You might be an adjunct if

• you have looked at the spacious offices of the admission staff with longing and contempt. Does one person really NEED all that space just to collect applications?
• you have gotten your car towed because you didn't know you parked in the wrong lot, and no one will reimburse you for it.
• you have been asked to check on a sleeping colleague because others were afraid he had a heart attack
• you have had to purchase noise-cancelling headphones to drown out the cacophony of others' frequent, loud phone calls about "business" matters
• you have pandered to the "student-friendliness" model not because it was right, but because it was easier
• you have spent all day teaching, only to spend large chunks of your "free" time preparing for a class you didn't know you were teaching until two days before the term began

[musik]

...a student calls you "Dr. Staff" instead of your real name, because when they registered they saw that the class was being taught by "staff." 

haha....


You might be adjunct if: a collegue mistakes you for a student using the copier without permission...

[disambiguate]

... your university paper publishes all faculty and staff salaries and you find yourself wondering how to parlay a PhD into a secretarial position.

[educator1]

... you develop a great sympathy for the baseball player who has spent all these years on a farm team in the middle of nowhere and never got called up to the majors.

[bibliothecula]

You might be adjunct if: a collegue mistakes you for a student using the copier without permission...

....you have to have all of your copies made at Staples and don't get reimbursed for them.
....you hold our "office" hours in a corner of the library.
....you have to make up your own "departmental letterhead" for writing LoRs b/c the dept doesn't give you any (or a file with it watermarked in).
....on long days on campus you eat your brown-bag lunch in the lobby or an unused classroom of your building b/c there's no lounge you can use.