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[1234littlemore]

Two different campuses at Houston Community College hired me then let me go in a week under suspicious conditions. One of the persons letting me go was apologetic and the other was positively gleeful about hiring then firing me in under a week (He also checked out my chest during the interview).

Pretty flaky and unprofessional bunch of individuals.

[kedves]

You said in another post that you were being reconsidered for a graduate program because of something ambiguous in your application.  Why would you be working for a community college already? 

[sciencephd]

Wait a minute.  That's the same state where JFK was assasinated.  Does this have anything to do with Oswald, Warren, or Noam Chomsky ?

[historywoman]

Wait a minute.  That's the same state where JFK was assasinated.  Does this have anything to do with Oswald, Warren, or Noam Chomsky ?

No, it's a conspiracy of the Illuminati.  They used to live under a rock in my back yard in Houston.  I never fed them.

HW

[profxfiles]

Wait a minute.  That's the same state where JFK was assasinated.  Does this have anything to do with Oswald, Warren, or Noam Chomsky ?

No, it's a conspiracy of the Illuminati.  They used to live under a rock in my back yard in Houston.  I never fed them.

HW

Dang it, I would make a joke about having to kill you now for finding out where we were, but it might get reported as a threat of violence on the fora by someone getting slapped silly with a mackerel. (interthreaduality alert)

[polly_mer]

Two different campuses at Houston Community College hired me then let me go in a week under suspicious conditions. One of the persons letting me go was apologetic and the other was positively gleeful about hiring then firing me in under a week (He also checked out my chest during the interview).

Pretty flaky and unprofessional bunch of individuals.

In what way were the conditions suspicious?  Were you really hired or were you in negotiations for an adjunct position that turned out to be unnecessary due to other circumstances? 

So you think someone checked out your chest during an interview, hired you, and then immediately gleefully fired you?  Perhaps you need a reality check because that's just weird.  In my experience, people who are interested in obvious non-job-related qualifications tend to either not hire so they have an excuse to keep looking at all the new candidates or they hire so they can visit every day "to check in with the new hire and make [you] feel welcome", which allows them to keep viewing those non-job-related assets on a regular basis.   Perhaps the problem is you need to stop wearing the push-up bra to interviews, but not to work because that is false advertising.

[tinyzombie]

You said in another post that you were being reconsidered for a graduate program because of something ambiguous in your application.  Why would you be working for a community college already? 

Warts.

[marigolds]

Some CCs do still allow people to teach with MA degrees; perhaps OP was supplementing funding from the PhD program with some teaching on the side.  It's also possible that the CC department chairs spoke with the department chair from the doctoral institution and learned about the discrepancy in the graduate school application, causing them to withdraw their offer of employment. 

OP, I'm curious: how did the department discover the mistake on your application?  Comparing transcripts?  And how did the error occur, if you know? 

[catalyzer]

(He also checked out my chest during the interview).

Perhaps your chest did not pass muster?

catalyzer, whose chest has always only helped to land jobs

[kedves]

(He also checked out my chest during the interview).

Perhaps your chest did not pass muster?

catalyzer, whose chest has always only helped to land jobs

If that's true, then you've known since you were in high school that it's going to happen even when it shouldn't.  It's possible to get used to it, but I wouldn't ever say that there is a point at which looks and comments in public, school, or work situations become welcome or funny.  Maybe we have had different experiences. 

[1234littlemore]

Can an actual person who is an adjunct and who has fewer than 1000 posts comment?

Uh sorry tenure track people but Lawrence Summer's comments don't apply here.........

[1234littlemore]

(He also checked out my chest during the interview).

Perhaps your chest did not pass muster?

catalyzer, whose chest has always only helped to land jobs

Sexual harassment IS FUNNY! Thanks for that. I know my irony is well placed.

[concordancia]

Can an actual person who is an adjunct and who has fewer than 1000 posts comment?

Uh sorry tenure track people but Lawrence Summer's comments don't apply here.........

Comment about what? You don't actually state what the "suspicious conditions" are. Glancing at someone's chest is not a violation of much of anything. Did they have a signed contract with you and renig on it? That would be a whole other ball of wax.

Furthermore, you appear to have attempted to start a PhD program and two separate adjuncting positions at the same time, a situation likely to violate the by laws of one or the other institution (ie, multiple campuses of the same institution generally like to know who is working where, or at least that was always the case when I was doing it; if you are getting any funding from your PhD program, there are probably stipulations about how many hours you can work).

Finally, last I checked, you still have not informed us if you have been providing misleading information or the program director for your PhD simply drew erroneous conclusions. If it turns out to be the former, all bets are off.

[boolos]

Some CCs do still allow people to teach with MA degrees; perhaps OP was supplementing funding from the PhD program with some teaching on the side.  It's also possible that the CC department chairs spoke with the department chair from the doctoral institution and learned about the discrepancy in the graduate school application, causing them to withdraw their offer of employment. 

OP, I'm curious: how did the department discover the mistake on your application?  Comparing transcripts?  And how did the error occur, if you know? 

Some? Some?  are you serious? 

Most CC's have a ton of MA's in the full-time positions and still hire them.  Sadly enough, they have many adjuncts with Ph.D.'s too.

[polly_mer]

Can an actual person who is an adjunct and who has fewer than 1000 posts comment?

Uh sorry tenure track people but Lawrence Summer's comments don't apply here.........

Point 1: Not all of us who have more than 1000 posts are tenure track.  Having more than 1000 posts merely indicates a substantial interest in these fora and the free time to indulge it.

Point 2: You have not provided enough information for us to make any reasonable comments on your situation.  Adjuncts often get the short end of the stick because they do not have long term contracts.  You still have not expanded on what you meant by suspicious circumstances.  Adjuncts often lose courses because the full-time people get first dibs on the courses.  If the courses do not fill or sections need to be cut to save money, adjuncts will get the boot.

Point 3: You have not made a substantial case for sexual harassment.  You made one comment to the effect that you think someone checked out your chest during an interview.  Even if the guy did look and you caught him looking, so what.  Unless he conducted the interview with your chest, you have no grounds for complaint and tossing out that comment along with your refusal to expand on why you think you were wronged by these colleges does not portray you in a positive light.