College students “trapped” in part-time jobs

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Drawing a pie, dragging wages, being cheated of money…

Written by / Lu Li Editor / Wen Jie

Source: Zinc Scale

The annual winter and summer vacation can be said to be the “golden season” for part-time jobs.

“College students were deceived to earn 80,000 yuan by taking part-time jobs”, “Undergraduates who had part-time jobs for less than a month encountered difficulties in collecting wages”, “Female college students said that part-time food delivery was attacked by customers”… All these have put the difficulties of college students’ part-time jobs on the public. before.

“Fudan New Academic” once wrote: The latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics also shows that 43% of full-time undergraduates work part-time during school, and 17% of them work part-time for 20 hours per week. -34 hours, 10% of people work more than 35 hours a week. Other studies have pointed out that part-time jobs are not exclusive to low-income students, and the proportion of students who have no financial burden entering the ranks of part-time jobs is also rising.

From this point of view, part-time jobs for college students have become the norm. On the one hand, a part-time job can get the corresponding salary to meet their additional consumption needs; on the other hand, a part-time job is also a small step into the society, which is more reflected in the ability to exercise will and increase knowledge. It is worth noting that negative problems such as difficulty in collecting wages, cheap part-time jobs, and oppression of college students have emerged one after another. Therefore, such “painful illnesses” may need to be rectified urgently…

Everyone yearns for free and flexible part-time jobs?

After finishing her high school career, Yiqian did not have any spare time during the nearly 3 months of summer vacation. Different from the “graduation trip” that most of the classmates choose, what she wants is to do part-time jobs to enrich herself, “on the one hand, to broaden her social skills; on the other hand, to find her interests”.

“I really had no clue at first. I saw that someone posted a job application on Xianyu, so I did it. After about a day or two, a company will come to you.” Yiqian talked about her job search. The part-time job process can be described as a “freak up”. “When the company came to me, I was dubious. People like paying first and then working are probably liars, but all this company needs are works.”

Zinc scale found that the release of part-time information is not only on part-time software or recruitment software, but also on apps such as Xianyu, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu. It can be said that as long as there are people, there is an “information field”.

“I have also encountered scammers who claim that they can make a lot of money on their platform, but the premise is to register an account, including ID information, phone number, bank card number, etc. In addition, they will also send some so-called ‘successful’ The example of employees’ to ‘confirm’ their credibility. But because it involves ID card information, I also refused.” Yiqian mentioned to Zinc Scale, but in fact, similar cases are not uncommon. However, with the development of various anti-fraud publicity work in recent years, the momentum has decreased.

According to Yiqian, her part-time job is to help the company with planning. In layman’s terms, she writes “travel tips” for clients.

“Because my home is in Guangdong, I go to school in Suzhou, and at the same time, I have also been to Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing and other places. Therefore, the customers I face are relatively fixed. In addition, the company also requires part-time students to do planning. I want to go somewhere for a while.” In this way, because of her “experience plus”, Yiqian successfully won her first part-time job.

“For me, this job is very free. When there are customers, just reply to their messages immediately. But if the customer is not satisfied, you need to make changes in time. Eat, ride, hotel, play. You need to cover everything, and sometimes you even need help booking air tickets.” In this way, Yiqian has gone from “novice” to “experienced”, and of course, the income is the same. “The working hours and income in the early stage are similar to those of a restaurant waiter. After you become familiar with the business in the later stage, the more time you invest, the higher your income.” According to Yiqian, her current salary is divided into 55% of the company’s salary. “The company is an outsourcing type. They provide me with customers, and I want to follow the customers to complete the entire travel process. The income will vary according to the customer’s requirements. For example, for a three-day travel itinerary, the ordinary type may be 70 yuan a day, and if it is higher, it may be Make it 250 yuan a day.”

Like Yiqian, in the hearts of today’s young people, they all yearn for a free job with a stable income. In fact, the part-time job Yiqian did was not perfect. “Sometimes there will be doubts from customers. After all, people who choose to entrust their trip to the company do not want a ‘part-time student’ to complete it.” She said, “Maybe in the eyes of customers, part-time is unprofessional. So , in addition to familiar places, but also to collect more information on the Internet, and strive to achieve customer satisfaction.”

Therefore, even Yiqian, who is very happy with this part-time job, has experienced the distress of “part-time job but not professional”. Zinc scale found that on Xiaohongshu, there are many notes on part-time jobs being “cut leeks”, dismissed without pay after three days of work due to unfamiliarity with the business, and being dismissed without pay within seven days of part-time work. From this point of view, Yiqian’s experience was a good one.

Taking part-time jobs to induce instalments, college students “earn money” and become “debt”

In fact, not everyone is as lucky as “Yi Qian”.

Xiaofeng, who was in his third year, wanted to find a part-time job to enrich his university life because of the lack of courses. “A university without a part-time job is incomplete, but now I want to say that a college student who has not experienced ‘part-time beating’ is also incomplete,” Xiaofeng mentioned.

“Maybe because of big data, someone came to contact me after reading the ‘lightning avoidance posts’ related to part-time jobs on Xiaohongshu for a few days.” Xiaofeng said that the institution that contacted him was Nanjing Zall Longteng Education Technology Ltd., “The teacher I chatted with at the time claimed that learning PS could make a lot of money, that the platform provided free part-time jobs, that a monthly order of 2,000 yuan was ‘easy’ and so on. Because there were not many classes, I decided to give it a try. During the free 7-day open class, the teachers of the institution have always emphasized that “learning this is very profitable”, many of my students have reported that they can’t do part-time jobs, etc., and then, it is the familiar way of selling courses.”

Just when Xiaofeng hesitated, the teacher of the institution sent him various poster design sheets, the price ranged from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan. At the same time, the teacher of the institution also calculated an account for Xiaofeng, “The tuition fee for the design master crash course is nearly 7,000 yuan. If the tuition fee is paid in installments, 200 to 300 orders can be received every month. That is to say, In addition to the installment, you can also make a net profit of 1,400 yuan.”

After paying the tuition fee, Xiaofeng joined the group of students. “You can’t take orders at the beginning. You have to pass PS, AI and other design poster assessments, and then you can take orders when you meet the standards.” After Xiaofeng studied for 1 month, The so-called “order-taking standard” of the institution is met, just when it thinks that it can make money by taking orders, it is not the case. “It’s good to send part-time jobs 4 days a week. There are less than 6 orders a day, and each order is 20 yuan. There are more than 400 people in the group waiting to do part-time jobs. In addition, the design poster is 20 yuan per order, the market price is several hundred yuan, and the price in the hands of the students may be only 10%. From this point of view, college students are really ‘college sacrifices’, and they are cheap labor for others!”

I thought I could earn money part-time after I finish my studies, but I didn’t expect that Xiaofeng would be burdened with a debt of 6,890 yuan. When Xiaofeng questioned the institution and was about to refund the fee, the institution “the staff did not reply when they saw that I wanted to withdraw from the class. I don’t answer the phone either.” In other words, Xiaofeng also fell into the whirlpool of “once payment and refund is difficult”.

Previously, the “Peninsula Metropolis Daily” mentioned that Nanjing Zhuoer Longteng Education and Training Institution (now renamed Nanjing Shangxue Longteng Education and Training Institution) used high-paid part-time jobs to induce college students to take online courses, apply for online loans, and want to drop out of school. Time-consuming, but unable to contact teachers and institutions, resulting in students unable to afford high loans and interest… In addition, from March 9 to April 2 this year, the company was unable to contact three times due to the registered residence or business premises , was included in the list of abnormal business operations by the Nanjing Qixia District Market Supervision Administration and the Jiangning District Market Supervision Administration.

From this point of view, there are still many doubts about the qualifications of the institution. Institutions that “change vests” and “harm college students in disguise” are still repeatedly banned.

Zinc scale found that it is not uncommon for college students like Xiaofeng to be induced to buy courses and pay tuition in installments when looking for part-time jobs. On the black cat complaint, there are 2,710 results in the search for “college student part-time job”, many of which are “The Youth League Club is a proper software for buying courses”, “defrauding college students for part-time jobs, inducing education installments”, “false part-time jobs, inducing college students to borrow” On Zhihu, Xiaohongshu and other platforms, there are also a lot of noisy content about the difficulty of refunding fees by institutions and borrowing part-time jobs to induce installments.

“Posting on social platforms is to hope that other people will not be deceived. Although part-time work is a good starting point, the outside world is far more complicated than us.” Xiaofeng said, “Similar to Weibo and Xiaohongshu We must also learn to distinguish between exchanges on platforms, and if a part-time job can only be realized after high-priced courses, then we should think about the deep meaning of it.”

Institution as a teacher: being drawn, forced to sell, dragged from wages

Although regulators have begun to rectify the campus loan and training loan market since 2016, as of now, it has not been completely cured.

In other words, many unknown “institutions” are currently in an incubation period. When the time comes, they will try to “harvest” parents and “harvest” part-time students. In this regard, the so-called “tutorial institutions” during the winter and summer vacations can well confirm this phenomenon. After finishing the postgraduate entrance examination, Anton said, “I was thinking of finding a part-time job before the postgraduate entrance examination results came out, but I didn’t expect that I would fall for the first time.”

It is understood that Anton interviewed for the position of a language teacher in a tutoring agency. “The monthly salary stated in the recruitment information is 4,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan, but in fact it is not that much. In addition, it is a tutoring agency in name, but it is actually a private When I went to the trial lecture, I didn’t say how to set up the courses and how to meet the quality standards, but explained to the 4 college students who were with us, “How much is the cost of an hour’s class, how much is the salary for teaching a large class, and how much is the cost of teaching a large class?” According to him, it can reach 7-8,000 yuan a month, and 2-300 yuan a day is no problem.”

In this way, Anton entered the counseling institution with the idea of ​​”no matter how bad it is, he can earn 100 yuan a day”. “In the first few days, I was sitting in the office because no students came to class. After a few days, the person in charge of the institution organized a few of us to recruit students, hand out leaflets from house to house, and do publicity. It cost 80 yuan a day. It means that a student will get a commission for signing up, but it will not be recognized when the salary is settled later.” Therefore, Anton and his peers experienced a 10-day enrollment life, “It is normal to be looked down upon by others. When asked about the qualifications of an institution, I was at a loss for words, and I didn’t know how to answer.”

Just when the “true face” of the organization was gradually exposed in the eyes of Anton and others, he decided to resign after a month, “because the organization can only pay wages after finishing it, luckily, the person in charge of the organization agreed with me. ask.”

Just after Anton worked for a month, another big problem came to him-the salary was owed.

“One month’s salary is only 2,000 yuan for the basic salary and 300 yuan for the lesson fee, which is equivalent to only 300 yuan for nearly 20 days of class, but the ‘hour fee’ that was said at the beginning was silent.” According to Anton, At that time, I found another newspaper for an internship. Due to the urgency of time, I agreed to the salary given by the head of the agency.

And in the “salary” days that followed, it made him even more helpless. “The salary of more than 2,300 yuan has gone through more than a month before and after. In the first week, the tuition fee of more than 300 yuan was settled; the remaining 2,000 yuan was settled three times in the next three weeks. Inquiries are always the same – ‘give it in two days’. However, this is not an exception, and it is also the case with my colleagues.”

“Give it in two days”, in Anton’s opinion, “it’s just a rhetoric for arrears of wages.” As for this part-time job, he mentioned to Zinc Scale: “Before part-time work, you must negotiate the composition of wages, make sure If you want to go to a formal institution to take classes, generally speaking, part-time jobs will also have contracts. For example, part-time software and information published on recruitment platforms should also be searched online as much as possible. Part-time jobs are a good thing in themselves, but it is because The ‘unscrupulous institutions’ I have encountered have made many part-time eager college students disgusted with so-called ‘counseling institutions’.”

Coincidentally, the incident of “difficulty in collecting salary” for college students part-time is not a temporary malady.

On August 23, according to the “Lizhi Starting Line” report, when Xiao Shen and other three people from Jiangsu were looking for part-time jobs on the Internet this summer, they met Lu, an intermediary who could provide a “billiards assistant” position. Lu promised them that the salary would be according to Hourly settlement, the monthly salary is guaranteed to be 3,000 yuan. After working for more than 20 days, Xiao Shen and Xiao Qian offered to resign, but Lu refused to pay the salary on the grounds that they had worked for less than one month.

It is true that the part-time job of college students is a small step towards the society, but the resulting “worrying” problems are not expected by them, such as “difficulty in collecting salary”, “salary problem”, “squeezing college students” and “cheap labor”. The article is also accompanied by “college student part-time job”.

Previously, “Guangming.com” once wrote: “Part-time college students who defend their rights have been “played with a ball”, which just shows that these part-time training institutions have drilled a loophole in supervision. Essentially, lacking the qualifications for running schools, such institutions are obviously suspected of illegally running schools. As part-time staff, the status of college students as “not human inside and outside” in the process of rights protection is also somewhat embarrassing. This involves multiple supervisory bodies. Only by joint law enforcement can the rights and interests of college students be protected and the losses of part-time students be recovered.

In general, the part-time job of college students is a long-standing phenomenon, and how to prevent the rights and interests of part-time college students from being infringed is something that all parties need to think about. But what urgently needs to be rectified now is probably some institutions or companies that are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” as mentioned above. Of course, most college students are not “lambs waiting to be fed”. When faced with bad encounters such as those mentioned above, as Anton said, “I won’t sit still. If the other party insists on delaying the salary, they will consider using the law. s method.”

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