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[School] City College of San Francisco [Issue and Date] Some great faculty, but pay sucks for the area. So many students and faculty that you'll be treated like a number. I'd advise working there if you're in a somewhat small department. Watch out for bureuacratic nonsense. WARNING! HR department will reject your application just because they feel like it! Extremely rude! I was told I was rejected because I didn't meet the minimum qualifications - a B.A. in english and experience. I called because not only do I have a BA and a MA and Ph.D. in English, but I've been teaching for 10 years. "You don't have a B.A. in English. You have a B.A. in Creative Writing," I was informed. Um, lady, I think I know what my degree is! It was infuriating. I instructed her to look at my transcript, but she said she didn't have it. then I told her to look at my CV and she got all pissy and said, "Well, it says 'creative writing emphasis.'" What kind of lousy HR does this place have if they can't tell the difference between a degree and an emphasis? She was incredibly rude to me. BEWARE! For the record, pay is not so terribly bad. CCSF pay ranks around 6th of the top ten cc's in the Bay Area (around 60K/yr for starting). Bureaucratic nonsense? Well, welcome to public education. In ANTHROPOLOGY they were lookomh top hire a full time high course load phd for $35,000. NOOOOOOOOO! Strange. Legally, they can't do it--there's a contract in place for full time faculty, and the starting pay for Ph.D. in hand is well above $35K. Pay does suck when you consider the cost of living there. Lots of bureaucratic nonsense. HUGE campus. Prepared to be treated like a number. They are notorious for NOT hiring their own adjuncts. I worked there 5 years and applied every year. Not even an interview. Other college hired me after I gave there. I finally *did* get an interview after being away 2 years; not surprisingly they did not hire me. What a shock. They abuse their faculty badly. A tenured instructor in his 60's was told to teach 7-10pm and then 8am the next day. No one has any power there--which is odd because it's littered with cliques. SF is a great town, but I recommend hiring on anywhere else. Consider Skyline in San Bruno or College of Marin. Really. Take my word. [Department] 
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