1st: you are the lowest paid person in the office and the hardest working with the least amount of downtime or slow days. The university appointed liaison person can be good or bad. In my case she was a horrible control freak that had little interest in working with me, helping me learn my position, and who ease-dropped on conversations, spied, gossiped, spread rumors, and made me do as much work as possible so she had more free time in the office.
2nd: The military cadre/staff that are here to be cadet instructors treat you like a work horse or a machine that they continuously shovel admin work to 24/7 with little concern of how long it takes to you to get it all done. The daily workload is overwhelming.
3rd: They forget that you are a civilian employee that does not work 24/7 and there is no overtime allowed but they want 15 hours of work in an 8-hour day, while they leisurely conduct classes, chat with cadets, do physical training, and attend events both on and off campus...all the while you are chained to your desk trying in vain to complete the myriad of tasks and admin work that is constantly piling up, for which you get little credit.
4th: Cadets can be okay most of the time but some are nasty spoiled brats that think you are there to service their needs 24/7 and with immediate response time on personnel actions that they have absolutely no concept of how things get done in the Army system, especially in Cadet Command
5th: It takes 18 to 24 months just to really understand and be competent at your job...but the work flow NEVER ends. There have been five people in this position in the past six years; I wonder why?
6th: Cadet Command does not operate like the regular Army; they have different forms, regulations, online systems, and ways of doing things; it is worse than working at HRC. In addition, you are required to spend 65-85 days of your summer (between May and August) at Fort Knox, KY in support of the annual cadet summer camps.
