NOVPUB744: Chapter 314 The Place Where Labour Companies Make Money During Winter and Summer Vacation_2
744 -314 The Place Where Labour Companies Make Money During Winter and Summer Vacation_2
Actually, Chang Hao is really feeling some regret now.
When he talked with his parents on the phone, he mentioned that he did not want to be in Jinling anymore.
He wanted to go back to study.
As a result, his dad scolded him, saying that he didn’t listen when he was told!
You’re already halfway through your studies!
How do you expect me to explain this to others?
Even if you want to come back to study, at the earliest you’d have to wait until next semester!
Chang Hao felt somewhat helpless after hearing this.
Now, his once dream girl is still happily chatting with Zhou Yuwen.
Even though the two are not in a romantic relationship.
Yet it doesn’t affect their closeness at all.
Sometimes Li Qiang whispers to Chang Hao, “Brother Hao, look, they’re cuddling together again.”
Chang Hao would ask, “What does that have to do with me?”
Indeed, the faces at Zhou Yuwen’s table are quite good-looking, perhaps that’s why people only talk about them from a distance.
But seldom do they go over to disturb them.
During the two days close to the final exams.
Liu Shuo did bring a few burly and stout guys over once.
All of these people are students, but each of them really looks robust and they are all wearing black down jackets, giving off a vibe not to be messed with.
Liu Shuo thus led these four or five strapping young men, swaggering up to Zhou Yuwen.
He called out, “Brother.”
Zhou Yuwen, seeing that many people in the library were watching and talking about him, said, “Let’s talk outside.”
So Zhou Yuwen took those few people outside.
Ma Tian and Li Jing couldn’t help but gossip after witnessing this scene, saying how cool it was.
“Rumor has it that Zhou Yuwen is the Boss outside, now it seems to be true,” Ma Tian and Li Jing whispered amongst themselves.
Li Qiang said, “Boss?
Ha, you’re underestimating my Brother Zhou.”
Then Li Qiang began to boast again.
This time Liu Shuo’s visit to Zhou Yuwen was actually for no other reason.
It was just that as the end of the semester approached, some labor contractors reached out to them, looking to hire workers for the winter break.
For a period of forty days, they offer a commission of fifteen hundred yuan per person.
But the students at Liu Shuo’s school complained that these intermediaries were offering pitiful wages for holiday work, only twelve yuan per hour, and if you wanted to work, they still wanted a copy of your ID card.
For one copy with a photo, they charged a fee of five or ten yuan.
In addition, some agencies took the opportunity to sell various life necessities such as bed sheets, quilts, toothbrushes, and toothpaste cups, which in total cost two hundred yuan.
It was like they earned no money, but made those intermediaries rich instead.
Liu Shuo’s school is indeed not that great, but there are still many decent kids there.
What wrong did they do?
They just wanted to earn a little extra money to support their families during the holiday.
Liu Shuo felt that these practices were too exploitative, but he didn’t know what to do, so he could only turn to Zhou Yuwen for help.
Zhou Yuwen, listening to Liu Shuo, also didn’t know quite what to say.
Temporary labor, summer and winter jobs are indeed the most lucrative.
There are two models of cooperation between normal factories and agencies.
One is to pay the agency directly 22 yuan per hour, and how much the agency makes is their own business.
The other is giving the agency a thousand yuan kickback for every temporary worker who completes two weeks of work.
This means that a college student working in a factory might only earn three thousand yuan in a month, but the agency gets an easy two thousand yuan.
And that’s only speaking of the financial aspect.
There are also some unscrupulous agencies that purposefully pick out the pretty girls…
Allegedly saying, “It’s not easy for a young girl to earn money, I’ll arrange an easy job for you…”
Those involved in labor can’t avoid dealing with temporary workers, and indeed this is truly a money-making endeavor.
But the problem is that the waters are too deep here, and Zhou Yuwen now basically controls the labor resources of three University Towns.
For any demand for temporary student labor, there are at least a thousand students.
That is to say, just for one winter break, he could earn two million!
Zhou Yuwen, fortunately, is not short of money and certainly would not earn such unscrupulous profits.
But it’s different for Liu Shuo; his heart was tempted.
The labor brokers have reached out to Liu Shuo, treating him to drinks, flattering him as “good little brother,” and saying, “As long as you recruit for me, I’ll give you fifteen hundred per person, how about it?”
That’s also one and a half million.
If it were the old Liu Shuo, he definitely wouldn’t have been tempted, he might even have cursed back, saying, “Fuck off, what do you take me for!”
But things are different now; Liu Shuo’s in love, and he also wants to show off by buying cars and houses.
And that’s one and a half million we’re talking about!
Just one semester, and it’s that much money; who wouldn’t be tempted?
After hearing about this, Lv Hui couldn’t help but press herself deliberately against Liu Shuo’s chest, saying, with one and a half million, we could even buy our own house!
Liu Shuo said, no, that’s too much money; I need to discuss this with my brother.
Lv Hui was speechless upon hearing this, saying, what’s there to discuss!
They came looking for you, looking for the Xu Huai Association.
Didn’t you say you’re the boss of Xu Huai Association?
If you handle it directly, wouldn’t you earn even more?
Liu Shuo said, I definitely can’t do that!
“Goddamn, this is all the brothers’ hard-earned money, what would I become if I took it?
I’ve got to discuss it properly with my brother; he will definitely have a way!”
At this point, Lv Hui was already at a loss for words.
It’s all “your brother” this.
And “your brother” that.
You might as well go live with your brother!
That’s what she said.
But Liu Shuo still went to find Zhou Yuwen.
After hearing him out, Zhou Yuwen also felt somewhat helpless.
Sigh, any initiative starts off with good intentions, but once it gets to scale, it inevitably turns to darkness.
After all, the force that Zhou Yuwen and Liu Shuo organized
is no longer just child’s play; making money is really simple.
It’s all about how you make it.
At this point, Liu Shuo was actually quite tempted, he went to Zhou Yuwen just to say three words: “Bro, are we doing it?”
Zhou Yuwen asked, how do you want to go about it?
“Well…
at worst we can earn a little less…” Liu Shuo said.
Zhou Yuwen replied, if you want to go for it, then go for it; after all, if we don’t do it, someone else will.
Let’s just treat our fellow students a bit better.
Zhou Yuwen pondered for a moment, then said: “Here’s what you do, bypass the middlemen and go directly to those factories to negotiate.
Have Lv Hui do a count of how many people want to work during the winter break, then go to the factories and say you have this many people, have them pay the students eighteen yuan per hour, actual cash.
Handle the rest through the labor company, charge five yuan per head, and also, I’ll transfer some money to the company’s account in a moment.
You and Lv Hui use that money to buy some bedding and other daily necessities, and if possible, some warm underclothes as well.
Distribute them to the students doing part-time work in advance, and explain to the students that the company will charge the factories a certain fee to cover company operations and purchase living supplies.”
Although this seems somewhat like deceiving oneself, at least it shifts the conflict between the company and the students, showing that the company charges the factories directly and the students can still receive a payment of eighteen yuan per hour, which is much higher than other labor companies.
In addition, the company will buy some heating supplies in advance, offering a humanized service, which really makes it a conscientious company.
If we take a five yuan commission per hour, based on a ten-hour working day, each person can bring in fifty yuan of revenue for the company per day; that’s fifteen hundred per month.
And a thousand people means one and a half million.
“Damn, bro, isn’t it that I’ve done the math, and by doing it this way, we’d make about the same amount as what the labor company offered me?” Liu Shuo couldn’t help saying after calculating with his fingers for a while.
Zhou Yuwen nodded: “Seems like it.”
Liu Shuo couldn’t help but ask: “In that case, would the factories agree to it?”
Zhou Yuwen smiled and said, why don’t you go over and see?
Originally, Liu Shuo thought that getting fifteen hundred per head from the brokers was already making money, but he didn’t expect that, after Zhou Yuwen put it this way, one and a half million is just chump change.
This…
Is this making too much money?
And also, are there really factories willing to hire seasonal workers at the rate of twenty-three yuan an hour?
At this point, Liu Shuo always felt something wasn’t quite right, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
