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A couple approached the front door of our house this evening. Ding-dong! I
\nopened the door. "Oh, you’re<\/i> moving?" Uh, yeah. I
\nexplained: The place is listed. Call the realtor on the sign. Then
\nthey said they weren’t interested in buying. They planned to call our LaLo
\nabout renting<\/i> it. ORLY? That’s right. Come to find out, the
\nsame LaLo who slammed us with an imperative to move back in April has posted
\nthis very house for "sale or rent<\/i>" at
\n
\nOrangehousing.com<\/a>. The rent he’s asking is $100 bucks more per month
\nthan we’re paying now, but it looks like the lackluster real estate market has
\nmotivated him to rent again. The prospective renters who stopped by this
\nevening weren’t especially won over by my look of surprise (a genuine look…come
\nagain?<\/i>). I showed them around and explained that we were happy enough
\nwith the place, that we would have stayed longer had we not been, in effect,
\nforced out to appease some impulse of greed. *sigh* <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Yesterday I called the *new* AT&T to check on upping the minutes on our
\ncellular plan. We’re land-line free and using a few more minutes than our
\ncurrent plan can bear. I climbed and swung through the number tree and
\narrived, much to my misfortunate I would later learn, on a "Sales" branch of the
\ntree talking with someone called Betty. I told Betty I needed more
\nminutes. Can I switch to a plan with more minutes? She answered
\nback: "It says here you would have to upgrade your account and pay an upgrade
\nfee of $18. If you upgrade, you would be voiding your current contract, so
\nyou would have to pay market value for new phones. You would also have to agree
\nto a two-year contract." What the<\/i>? Say, Betty, I like the
\nphones we already have, and I just need more minutes. Betty and I talked past
\neach other for several more minutes. Having gone through something like this
\nbefore, I was fairly certain there was a way to do what I wanted without handing
\nover an upgrade fee and shelling out for new phones. In the afternoon, I
\ntried again. Talked someone called Lance who took care of everything in
\nonly a couple of minutes. <\/p>\n

Here’s the most striking irritant by far: a bitter pill from P.U. regarding
\nthe course development and upkeep work I’ve done over the past few years.
\nReceived word a couple of weeks ago that the existing royalty structure is being
\nscrapped in the new contracts that have been foisted on existing developers.
\nDevelopers of high-enrolling (mulitple-section) courses stand to lose a fair
\namount of money. The new development\/maintenance contracts pay out $150
\nper term for courses with just one section and a flat-rate of $200 per term for
\ncourses with two or more sections. I got involved initially because the royalty
\nstructure at the time scaled according to the number of total sections of a
\ngiven course. At the time (right after 9-11), everyone was in a clamor about
\ndeployed enrollments (an exodus of on-site students who would be TDY to
\nAfghanistan or elsewhere). There was a rush to attract developers of
\nhigh-enrolling courses, and this was done with the snake oil of two-year
\ncontracts which paid royalties of $3 per student (also, there were evil grins
\nand promises to make decent pay for the work involved). Once the
\nhigh-enrolling courses were developed and in place (all work-for-hire), there
\nwas a change in program leadership and a new contract. This one, around
\n2004, paid $60 per section to developers for ongoing maintenance (answering
\nemails, writing new course materials, responding to inquiries from instructors,
\nand so on). Again, two-year contracts. Only with these, because I
\nknew I would be enrolling in a PhD program where the stipend, generous though it
\nis, wouldn’t be enough to do much more than pay rent, I met with then-director
\nof the distance learning program and was given verbal reassurance<\/i> that
\nthe contracts would be renewable, that I could count on that income provided P.U.
\nthought highly of the design of those courses (this has never been raised as a
\nquestion, for what it’s worth). The new contracts depart radically from
\nthe former system. I talked to the new interim director by phone today and was
\ntold plainly that the contracts were a strictly legal matter, that the new
\ncontracts were all that was available, and that they understood some developers
\nwould lose out. Unfortunately, I happen to be one of them. If I don’t want
\nto continue as a developer, I was told, I have the right of first refusal.
\nNoted.<\/p>\n

They’re making a lot of loot on the online courses. What’s happened, as
\nI see it, is that demand for the courses has shifted into the long tail of the
\ncurriculum–those courses that need to be developed even though there will only
\nbe one section. Redistributing the royalty structure gives the U. ways
\nimprove incentives for developers of low-enrolling courses. Another
\nfactor: the U. has brought "instructional designers" on staff who will
\ncollaborate with the less tech-savvy among the faculty. I could go on and
\non about this, but I’ll stop. Nothing I can do about it, given that my
\nenergy must be directed elsewhere. What irks me the most? An
\ninstitution stands to gain from these [adjective] employment practices that thrive when
\ninstitutional memory is short<\/i> (use of part-timers, work-for-hire,
\ncontingent staff and instructors, and also high turnover in administrative posts
\nrelated to the online program). Part-timers, those whose contracts, like
\nlight bulbs, are good for about two years, have no union, no bargaining unit, no
\ncollective voice, and, in effect, not an ounce of leverage in decisions that position them as
\nexpendable labor. The contracts were never negotiable, not even up for
\ndiscussion (difficult, even, to get a phone conversation in which I could ask
\nquestions). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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