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[sad_goat]

You are grateful for $564 per class per month

Crap, that doesn't sound too bad, where are they paying that much?

(You know you are an adjunct when you can post the above question, and mean it.)

...when the most exciting part of the week is finding something, anything, in your mail slot.

...when the college closes because of weather, but no one tells you.

[london1]

.....you have a copy of an "Adjunct Faculty Handbook," but it is on mimeographed paper and is dated 1981.

[_touchedbyanoodle_]

...you have had to explain to your students that their papers were ruined because the leaky ceiling of the adjunct office finally collapsed.

...after six semesters of working in the department and frequenting the office, you still have to tell the admin assistant your name.

...it is a good thing if the department chair doesn't recognize you. If he does, he won't make eye contact with you because he's bitter about the time it took for him to deal with a complaint from one of your psycho students.

...you don't report threatening/rude/inappropriate student behavior of any sort because it will just get you "fired."

...you refer to being "fired" in quotation marks because, really, the department will just "forget" about you and your next course load offer.

...you make far less than minimum wage.

[miss_m]

You might be an adjunct if . . .

you are late to class the first day because all you got was a map with a highlighted building on it and a post-it with course times,

you can't call roll because you can't get a roster--online or in print,

and

your students love you so much they keep asking what you will be teaching next semester and are disappointed that it will be the same gen-ed, required class they are taking at the time.

[miss_m]

(and one or two more of my personal favorites)

when you ask for department letterhead, the administrative assistant looks at you like you just asked to be named Dean, incredulously sneering "Why?" and, when told you need to write a letter of recommendation for a student, honestly says, "Really?  Who asked you?"

or

the only reason any of the FT faculty know you is because you have to keep asking them to unlock the copier/supply room/department office.

[infopri]

...you look at your pay stub and wonder what happened to the rest of your money.


Oh wait, that happened when I was on the TT, too.

[ellipsis]

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.   

You share the adjunct office with 75 other adjuncts, the work study students, dozens of packages on the floor, the coffee machine, the refrigerator, the xerox machine. . . .

[zuzu_]

your students love you so much they keep asking what you will be teaching next semester and are disappointed that it will be the same gen-ed, required class they are taking at the time.

Yes! But that also happens to me on the TT at a CC :)

 

the only reason any of the FT faculty know you is because you have to keep asking them to unlock the copier/supply room/department office.

Haha! All the time!

[vprof]

You never come for faculty meetings

You don't distribute a syllabus on the first day as you just learnt of your new classes few hours earlier.

You read your first lecture powerpoints (if you have one) word for word as you didn't know which class you were to teach

[galactic_hedgehog]

...you're learning a brand new subject barely ahead of the students because, when asked, you said, "Sure, I can teach that."

[plantscience]

So true...

You might be an adjunct if . . .

you are late to class the first day because all you got was a map with a highlighted building on it and a post-it with course times,

you can't call roll because you can't get a roster--online or in print,

and

your students love you so much they keep asking what you will be teaching next semester and are disappointed that it will be the same gen-ed, required class they are taking at the time.

[london1]

You never come for faculty meetings

Or, you are never invited to faculty meetings. 

Why?  Because these meetings are for real faculty (as you are informed by a full-time faculty member).

[dr_dre]

... you are reading this thread from a campus computer lab.

... a masters student has asked you if your degree was worth it, since you're "just an adjunct."

[london1]

....you receive a dirty look, grunt and an impatient wave of the hand towards the supply cabinet from the admin assistant when you dare to ask for luxury teaching supplies like CHALK.

[galactic_hedgehog]

...you have to turn your keys in at the end of every semester.  Even when you'll need them again in two weeks.