To exist, or not to exist

That is the question, at least as far as the University of Maryland is concerned. Because the university decided over the weekend that I no longer exist as a person. I couldn’t log in to my email account and emails sent to my umd address actually started bouncing (which seems a bit extreme).
When I called OIT (Office of Information Technology) to ask what had happened, I was informed that my ‘position with the university had been terminated’. Huh, I thought.
Because while I’m moving from one department to another (which will technically require a new appointment), my current position doesn’t run out until the 21st or so. And even if it had ended now, I feel that the approach of turning off someone’s email with no warning is… what’s the word I’m looking for here. Silly. They tell you a month and a half before your password is going to expire (with seemingly weekly reminders after that), but they don’t tell you that your University existence is about to end? That seems more than a little foolish. Particularly when they don’t even have the option of forwarding email from my address here.

This situation is supposedly being dealt with by the Biology department giving me a temporary appointment to last through the 21st. However, the wheels of this were set in motion on Tuesday and I have yet to detect any change in my actual status, so I’m not exactly holding my breath on this. I suspect things won’t really be cleared up until I start my new job (at which point the temporary appointment will no doubt turn out to have some kind of dire consequences meaning that I can’t get health insurance or get paid or something like that).