NOVPUB745: Chapter Three Hundred and Fifteen: Big Business, Six Million
745 -Three Hundred and Fifteen: Big Business, Six Million
Students are paid 18 yuan per hour, and with the factory paying an extra 5 yuan per hour to Zhou Yuwen’s company as a referral fee, it means their labor cost is 23 yuan an hour, which is a high price throughout the Jinling area.
Liu Shuo pondered that there probably wouldn’t be many people taking the job, but following Zhou Yuwen’s instructions, Liu Shuo still had Lv Hui and others tally the number of people available for winter vacation work.
When the recruitment information was released, some students who usually stayed at school during the winter vacation were utterly baffled.
“Eighteen yuan an hour?
Are they crazy?!”
“Wasn’t it twelve in previous years?”
“Damn, Hai Ge, look what the Xu Huai Association group is saying, they actually have factory jobs at eighteen yuan an hour, and they even include bedding!”
“Really?
Is the Xu Huai Association that awesome?”
“Hey, did you hear?
Over at Xianlin University Town, the Xu Huai Association is saying they can find work paying 18 yuan an hour?”
By this time, the Xu Huai Association had already made a name for itself in Jinling for helping students find suitable part-time jobs during Double Eleven and boosting the local logistics industry, playing a positive role.
So the current reputation of the Xu Huai Association was quite good, and now suddenly a job with an hourly wage of eighteen yuan for the winter vacation work blew up among the students at all three University Towns at the same time.
You should know, this is six yuan more than previous years per hour, and with a ten-hour work day, that’s an extra 1,800 yuan a month!
1,800 yuan is two months of living expenses for these students.
Moreover, the announcement said that bedding would be distributed in advance, plus by joining the Xu Huai Association, each person can get a set of exclusive down jackets from the Association.
This organization is truly considering the needs of impoverished students.
Suddenly, students remaining in Jinling hurried to sign up.
Even the proportion of Xu Huai Association in Jiangning and Pukou, originally only about 30 percent, surged during the end of the semester, and it seemed as if it was about to exceed fifty percent.
Originally, Liu Shuo thought that recruiting a thousand people would be sufficient, wondering where so many students would come from that wouldn’t go home for the New Year.
But in just one week’s time, four thousand more people materialized out of thin air?
No, seriously, where did all these people come from?
“Shuo Ge, my childhood friend is studying in Changshu; although he is not from the Xu Huai Association, he also wants to come here to work, what do you think?”
“Shuo Ge, my girlfriend is in Changsha; can she come over and give it a try?”
“Shuo Ge…”
They are all eighteen or nineteen-year-old youths.
Maybe in the eyes of the general public, these young people should all be blooming youths, in the prime of their life.
Either playing games in Internet cafes.
Or dating in coffee shops.
But honestly, there are many other eighteen or nineteen-year-olds who are very sensible and take on the burden of family at an early age due to various reasons.
What they want is very simple: to earn a little more money so they can live better next semester.
For example, they can eat two more dishes, buy a new cellphone for themselves.
Even thinking, if they earn money, they could treat their roommates to a nice meal.
This time around, two thousand college students from within Jinling City signed up, hoping to find a good part-time job through Liu Shuo, while the other students came from various places.
Of course, those from other provinces were in the minority, with most students concentrated in Southern Jiangsu.
They all think about earning more money during the winter vacation.
Then the local jobs only pay eleven or twelve yuan an hour.
Old friends thought that Jinling had a Xu Huai Association which seems dedicated to helping impoverished students with part-time studies issues, not only leading everyone to make a good amount of money during Double Eleven but also finding them work paying eighteen yuan an hour during the winter vacation.
This made students from other areas envious.
Asking friends if they too could go there?
When Liu Shuo encountered this feedback, he was also somewhat dumbfounded and unable to make a decision, so he could only go to Zhou Yuwen.
Zhou Yuwen, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but laugh.
Four thousand people?
Boy oh boy, why would I even bother with labor services?
I could just open a factory!
Of course, that was just a thought.
Liu Shuo was still worried, wondering which factory could handle so many people, and considering that the hourly wage comes to 23—would they really agree to it?
Zhou Yuwen, however, said that they would definitely agree.
With us having four thousand people on this side, the other side would have very few people available for winter vacation work.
Forget 23, if Zhou Yuwen really wanted, he could squeeze a little and even at 25, they would have to agree.
But Zhou Yuwen didn’t want to be so unkind, so he just let Liu Shuo put out the jobs at the 23 yuan price.
Moreover, for the students coming from other places, if their transportation fares could be reimbursed, they should be, as it wouldn’t be fair to let them pay out of pocket for travel from far away.
As for gang-like associations such as the Xu Huai Association, it’s best to mention them as little as possible; just leave a name, a phone number, a register of a contact.
Zhou Yuwen was originally a bit worried about not being able to expand his takeout company.
But unexpectedly, a winter vacation labor service solved all his problems.
After the winter vacation, all University Towns in Southern Jiangsu will have the signage of Xianlin Takeout.
By then, don’t talk about thirty million—be careful, I might really bring about a tripartite standoff and go for financing and an IPO!
The size of four thousand people suddenly shattered Liu Shuo’s perception, and now Liu Shuo really doesn’t understand anything, he can only obediently listen to Zhou Yuwen.
According to previous calculations, one thousand people could earn one and a half million.
Now these four thousand people, that’s six million!
Just for one winter vacation’s time, earning six million?
Unthinkable.
The workload suddenly quadrupled, and the current manpower is simply not enough; they need to tally up their numbers, purchase their living supplies, and also, liaise with the factories.
