“A state governor contacted the university president, who contacted our department to check on the admissions status of the child of someone who worked in their office.”
“I’m a college librarian. SO MANY students have sex in the library. It’s disgusting! They think we somehow don’t know, but if we don’t see it, we hear it. And if we don’t hear it, we smell it. And that smell isn’t easy to get out of books.”
“I had a friend who was a D1 athlete at a major university I also attended. His ‘work-study’ job was to go to the football stadium every morning and make sure the sprinklers came on.”
“Students were never held accountable for their entitled behavior with university admin staff. One student swept everything off my desk in a fit of anger and threatened me, leaving me a bit terrified. I reported the incident to my boss. Nothing was said to the student, but I was spoken to very sternly by my boss, who wanted to know what I had done to make the student so angry.
The student couldn’t pay her tuition bill ($16,000) because she forgot to apply for financial aid. I just told her to file, and I would help her as best I could.”
“I’ve worked in college admissions for ten years at multiple universities. One universal thing is that your admission counselor is HORNY.”
“Not me, but someone I know works security at the university and knows where all the hookup spots are.”
“I got a job in [an] office at a university right after I graduated. I was not prepared for the amount of politics, gossip, and cliques among the staff, faculty, and departments. It was like high school all over again.”
“The drama is off the charts. I once witnessed half the faculty gang up on one professor for getting a single bad review from a student (nothing terrible, just that they’d found the subject of his classes boring).”
“I’m currently working on my PhD, and one major aspect of my work is teaching undergraduate classes. I think most people would be shocked to learn how little training people get for this huge aspect of their job and how little oversight there is for instructors.”
“I’m an admin assistant. I do all the catering orders for my department’s events. I always have to order way more gluten-free or vegan items than we actually need because people will grab whatever they want.”
“It does not pay well! In my state, adjunct instructors make about $1600 per three-credit hour class. When you factor in all the prep and grading, plus office hours and student meetings, I make less than the minimum hourly wage.”
“The state and federal financial aid are not changeable, but if the school has scholarships, you more than likely can bitch and moan until you’re given something. Unfortunately, it’s not always fair…”
“A *lot* of your professors are basically temps. The first 11 years I taught at my university, I was an adjunct professor. This means my teaching contract was semester-to-semester, so I often wouldn’t know if I’d be employed until a few months before the term started.”
“I was an RA. You never get breaks. Usually, you have to stay for Christmas and other holidays. You can’t have a job off campus, and you barely get to have a social life. One year, all of my finals fell on the same day I had to check out all of my residents for summer break.”
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