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Chapter 11 Fake!New car launch part-time job
In the spring of 2018, in a certain city in the north.

In mid-April, the city returned to sunny days after a round of rain.After the rain, the sky has washed back to its original blue, which had been eroded by the spring breeze.

I just left my last company.A year of work has enabled me to acquire new things, and also enabled me to accumulate some experience that I had never had before, whether it is work or life.Job-hopping is nothing new, let alone something that is not easy to mention.As for the new location, I interviewed several companies and received some invitations, and I plan to choose one to join in the next few days.Although they are all working in the most ordinary office buildings, the most ordinary kind of companies.But my own abilities are not outstanding, and I recognize this very clearly.

I have a few days to spare.People are always like this. They want to get a few more days of rest when they are working, but they miss the days of work during the long rest.When I am free for a few days, I always think about finding something to do.Looking back at the fantasies I imagined when I was working, and the things I should do when I have time to chat, all of them are completely just images that pop up in my mind when I am in a tired and tense working state.When I am really free, I realize that there are very few things that can be done.

I took out my mobile phone to browse the news in the part-time job group, trying to find a part-time job to do.There are not many part-time jobs recently. I saw some part-time jobs posted by Taozi. Although the salaries are not very high, after all, I have cooperated several times before.Having a stable and reliable leader is very important in part-time work.

When I was about to choose one of the part-time jobs posted by Taozi, a recruitment information suddenly posted in the part-time job group caught my attention.The general content of the recruitment information is that a certain brand's new car promotion meeting will be held in this city the day after tomorrow, and there is an urgent need for a number of on-site personnel, and the requirements are male, aged up to 35 years old.On the working day, you need to wear black trousers and white sneakers. The working hours are from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm. The salary is [-] yuan and lunch is provided.The content of the work is to check tickets, maintain the scene, and lay hands on the ground. The work is easy and not tiring.Address an exhibition center.

The salary of this job is not low among the part-time jobs I have seen in recent days, and the work content is not very tiring. After all, it is better than the courier sorting and hotel waiter jobs that are also recruited. A lot.Besides, the place of work is very close to my home, and it only takes three bus stops to get there.

I click on the head portrait of the team leader who sent the message to add friends. The WeChat name of the team leader is an English name. I can’t remember how to spell it. I just remember that the WeChat head portrait is a picture of a landscape. There are snow mountains, blue sky and white clouds in the picture. .

It didn't take long to pass the friend verification.I forwarded this job offer to him and asked if he was still hiring.He asked about my age and basic information, and quickly reached an agreement after getting my answer.When I checked Moments again, I noticed that the team leader was still posting a part-time job.The time of this part-time job is also the day after tomorrow, and the location is the same as the part-time job I signed up for.The difference is the content of the work.The content of this part-time job is to fill the event for a certain brand's car launch event. The main job is to act as the audience of the live event, just sit under the stage and watch the show.Both men and women are required, but they must be young, preferably dressed in fashion, and the number of people is 20 to 20.The working time is from [-] am to the end of the show, about half an hour, and the salary is [-] yuan.

This part-time job is extremely relaxing and the hours are short.Of course, the amount of salary is not very impressive, so I don't care too much.

In the afternoon of the second day, the part-time team leader pulled me into the work group.The name of the work group is still called the working date plus the word work group, and the group owner is naturally the team leader.He sent out an address, and this is the place where he will gather for work tomorrow.

When it was work day, I put on black jeans and white espadrilles and got on the bus.There were no seats in the car, so I tried my best to avoid the feet of the crowd standing on the car, for fear that in this crowded space, some fool with "no eyes" would step on my feet and dirty my white shoes.I don't know if this is the common trouble of everyone who wears white shoes, maybe when the shoes are completely dirty, they won't care so much.

After three stops like this, I got out of the car.This is an international convention and exhibition center, where large-scale exhibitions of the whole city, province and even the whole region will be arranged, so the area occupied here can be imagined.I opened the location in the work group, and the location shown in this location is located in a parking lot on the west side of the convention center.I walked there along the road on the west side of the convention center.When I got there, I walked for more than ten minutes.

When I got there, there were already several people standing there waiting.They are all boys, and they are all wearing black pants and white shoes. I know they are the same part-time people as me.I posted a message in the WeChat group that I had arrived here, and not long after, several people also posted the same message.The leader asked us to wait a while, he will be there soon.

At less than 36:[-], the team leader arrived here.He is not tall, wears glasses, and looks like he is [-] or seven years old.His appearance is very ordinary, with no special features, neither handsome nor ugly, so that people don't know how to describe it, and it is even more difficult to remember what he looks like.

He looked at the number of people and clicked on their names.The part-timers have arrived, there are twenty of them.He led us to work, and then we ran into trouble that I had never encountered since I was a part-timer.

While walking, I saw a two-story assembled car runway in the distance, and an SUV car was parked on the runway.This car is the protagonist of today's event, and today's press conference is for this product.I suddenly realized that our activity today is not in the pavilion, but outside.Today is sunny and the temperature has warmed up.I'm afraid it won't be a good day to work outside in such weather.

The leader took us to the scene of the event.There are two identical SUV cars on the scene, one parked on the ground, and the other is the one just seen in the distance on the assembled track.There is a huge billboard under the curve with the poster of this model on it.

The cross-country runway and two SUVs set up on flat ground attracted the exclamation of part-timers.Some excitedly took out their mobile phones to take photos and short videos, while others lamented the price of the car.Some people pretended to be professionals, complaining about how poor the performance of this car is and how bad the experience is.He kept yelling "broken car" one after another, as if he was a billionaire, and ordinary cars were not worthy of him.The person who complained was sour, and the person who took the photo secretly joked that the person who spoke sourly was worthless, and pretended to be economical when he was poor and poor, and the person who spoke sourly laughed at the person who took the photo for his ignorance, and regarded everything as a good thing.

In addition to this, there is also a small venue temporarily built with air film, which does not occupy a large area.On the opposite side of the billboard, there is also a temporary house, but it is just a glass house.

The two persons in charge at the event site walked out of the glass room, and I saw that the arrangement in the glass room was simple but very stylish.There is a white counter and a small dining table, and the arrangement of tables and chairs makes people look very comfortable.The visual effect looks like a literary cafe on the street.In the glass room, there are four slender, long-legged girls with delicate and beautiful faces, changing their coats.It seems that they should also be the etiquette of this event, but they should not be the same company as our labor service company.Because I didn't see my team leader announce the etiquette of recruiting girls, and the arrival time and assembly sign-in were not completed together.

The people in charge were a little surprised when they saw us. They were surprised that we had so many people.The two persons in charge looked like they were in their 20s, and one was a handsome, well-mannered tall boy.He was wearing a white shirt, with his hair combed back, looking a bit like a white-collar elite.His Mandarin is very standard, but his behavior and voice are slightly feminine.

The other person in charge was a stocky man.He was wearing a blue jacket and khaki pants, and his overall outfit was very casual, not as elegant as the tall leader.He speaks with a southern accent. His hair is naturally curly and a little long. It should be that he didn't take care of it when he went out in the morning. At this moment, he is swaying in the direction of the wind.

The two persons in charge said that there were too many people, and they explained that there were only six boys, and the requirement was that they should be young and have a slightly better image.I looked at the part-timers here with a huge age span and uneven images.Many people in their early thirties look like they are in their 50s or [-]s. Many of them go out without washing their hair, and some have lost their hair altogether.The pants he was wearing were also old and worn-out sweatpants, and the white shoes were dirty, and the uppers had even been glued.

The team leader said that the job requirements he received were for men, under the age of 35, and the number was 20.The person in charge insisted that there is no need for so many people, and it is enough to select six young boys from among us.

As soon as this remark came out, the team leader and some part-timers were dissatisfied.One of the short, bald part-timers yelled angrily, "You didn't talk about the image in advance! If you had agreed in advance, then I wouldn't sign up! What's going on now?"

"That's right! How is this counted!" Several other part-timers also complained dissatisfied.

The part-timers who complained were older and sloppily dressed.They are very aware of their own image, and they are dissatisfied with the mistakes in the work of the two parties, and they are also dissatisfied with the person in charge who judges people by their appearance.

I stood there without saying a word, but in fact I was very panicked. After all, no one wants to get up early to go to work, but in the end they don’t make any money and go back in despair.

The team leader and the person in charge stalemate for a while, saying that this situation needs to be called to explain to the boss of his labor service company.The person in charge said yes.

The team leader picked up the phone and explained the situation to the boss on the other end of the phone.At this time, a part-timer shouted loudly: "Everyone is a whole! If we want to choose people, we will not do it! All withdraw!"

The yelling person's hair was long and oily, without any style at all, and there was clearly visible dandruff on the hair, and it was obvious that it hadn't been washed for several days.He bit the cigarette holder with his very crooked teeth and continued to demonstrate to the person in charge.A few part-timers with the same sloppy appearance also loudly echoed and agreed, and claimed that everyone came to do part-time jobs and not to participate in the beauty pageant. If they were selected, they would not do it.

A part-time job worker whose image is also not very tidy expressed different opinions: "If you want to choose, let him choose it. Those who are selected will stay and do it. Those who are not selected will go back to their respective homes. The matter is not so simple. Who made us look better than others?"

What he said immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of those part-timers just now.

"We are a whole! How can we be slaughtered at will? At worst, everyone will stop doing it! You love being exploited so much, why don't you find a full-time job to do it and let people exploit you?"

"Who is the whole with you? Who knows who here? There are only six people here, why do you let the six people who have been selected go out with you? Blame yourself for being ugly, and blame yourself for not paying attention to your image. It's over! Get excited?"

Those part-timers quarreled, and they were all 35 years old or even more than 35 years old.The more they quarreled, they even shouted that their part-time job was for freedom!They want freedom, not exploitation.

The young lads stood there silently, and a group of people who knew they would definitely be eliminated were arguing, and even had the tendency to make a big fight.The poor workers at the bottom are oppressed and unable to resist, so they can only vent their anger and fight among themselves.

The team leader hung up the phone, and he told the person in charge that the boss said that it would be good to select six favorite candidates to work, and he would handle other things.The person in charge thanked the team leader.The team leader conveyed the news to us that those who were selected will stay and work, and those who were not selected are very sorry, and will send everyone a 20 yuan subsidy to express their apology.

The team leader began to select people, and I was lucky to be selected.In fact, everyone knows in their hearts who will be selected, because there are only so few young people.Even I know that the reason why I was selected is not because of my handsome appearance, but because of my youth.

The storm passed without any risk.Those who were not selected also dispersed, and they naively pinned their hopes on the labor service company, but they didn't know that for the labor service company, the activity was the real thing to curry favor with, because it was the funder.And labor is something that can be called at any time.In fact, I am most afraid of two situations when I go out to do part-time jobs. One is that I can’t get my salary after the work is over.The second is when you are all ready and come to the scene early but fail to complete the work of the day, tossing in vain and wasting time and energy.Either way, the end result is that you don't get what you deserve.This is the feeling I have done so many part-time jobs.

The six of us followed the person in charge to the glass room. The four girls I just saw had already changed into the coats and peaked caps provided by the unified event party.Just like my previous judgment, they are also the etiquette of this event, and they were recruited by another labor service company.

However, it was the next job that let me know that everything can be faked!

Like those girls, we also need to change into the jackets and peaked caps of the event party.The person in charge took out the jacket and asked us to choose it according to our own size.There are not many coats to choose from, there are only a few in total, and I chose a relatively suitable one to wear on my body.

After the change, the short person in charge gathered ten of us to assign positions and inform us about the work content.Two of the four girls stood outside the door of the glass room, one on each side, as welcome guests for the event.The other two girls stood at the front desk in the house. The two positions were alternated, and they could sit and rest when they were not busy.The boys are not so lucky, all of them are standing outdoors.One person stands on each side of the runway, one person stands on each side of the billboard, and one person stands at the entrance of the air film venue.The sun is still plenty today, so standing outside like this is probably another tiring day.However, it turns out that I was overthinking everything.

After arranging the positions, we stood in our respective positions, and the person in charge took pictures of each position and asked us to go back to the glass room to sit and rest.We sat there and the tall guy in charge reminded the shorter guy to record a little video of the pre-job meeting.

The short person in charge immediately took out his phone and prepared to shoot.The tall person in charge stood among us, speaking fluently and impassionedly about the work requirements and precautions.His sonorous and powerful rhythm coupled with his square and round Mandarin characters makes him feel like he is on a podium. It can be seen that he often hosts some activities or explains work.

After the short man said "It's ok", the tall man's "speech" stopped abruptly, and there was no sound in the whole room.The tall person in charge found a chair and sat down. He only said half of what he said just now and didn't continue because the video had already been recorded, so there was no need to continue the "performance".

When it was almost ten o'clock, a band, a host, a photographer, a dance troupe and a group of young people had already arrived at the scene.The short person in charge asked us to take off our caps and coats and change back into our own clothes, and then go to the inflatable stadium to gather.The tall leader greets and arranges the work of photographers, band dance troupe and live audience.

Ten of us changed our clothes and came to the inflatable venue. There is a temporary stage in the venue, and five rows of temporary seats have been placed under the stage.I saw the team leader counting and signing in for the audience, and I understood that this was the part-time job I had seen before.And the reason why we changed back to our own clothes was also to act as a live audience.This time, the part-time team leader of the labor service company did not come to the scene with the audience. There is really no need to come here for such a job with short working hours and low wages.

Responsibility requires us to spread out and sit, and then the photographer will be in place.The host came on stage and said the regular opening remarks, and then introduced the car according to the prepared manuscript.The hosting style and facial expressions of the host are the same as those of ordinary wedding masters of ceremonies, all of which are full of professional fake smiles when they come out to work.Rather than calling him a host, it is more appropriate to call him an event master of ceremonies.

When the show started, the hip-hop troupe was the first to perform on stage.The whole dance troupe is full of girls, they are all young, even though they put on makeup, they are still a little immature.They wore uniform costumes and danced two dances. The dance moves were not very professional, and it was obvious that they were from the hip-hop club of a nearby university.The reason for hiring them is also very simple, that is, the price will definitely be much cheaper than professional dance troupes in the society.

After the performance of the dance troupe, it was the turn of the band to appear on stage. There were only four people in this band.The lead singer sang two very popular songs while playing the electric guitar.They are also very unprofessional. When the home player is playing the guitar, he often has to look down at the neck of the guitar to press the chord he wants.The reason why it is used should be the same as that of the dance troupe.

After the show, we gave as much warm applause as possible.The master of ceremonies came to several interactive sessions and lottery sessions.Of course, both the interaction and the lottery are arranged in advance, just for show.

After the concluding remarks of the master of ceremonies, the press conference performances all came to an end.The dance troupe posed in front of an outdoor billboard for photographers to take pictures.At this point the band stood by and waited, and I stood next to them and overheard their conversation.

It turns out that the four members of the band don't know each other. They are all amateurs and usually have their own jobs.They have all joined the WeChat team leader of the same event, and when and where there is such a small performance, whoever is free can form a team to participate.In fact, there are not many activities, and the probability of being able to participate in them is not very high.They all take this opportunity as a continuation of their hobby and additional income.

The lead singer was in his early forties and graduated from a conservatory of music. After graduation, he did not engage in music-related things, but became a self-employed man running a wholesale department.When he jokingly said that he has almost forgotten all the music skills he learned at the beginning, his facial expression was a little helpless and unwilling.

After the dance troupe finished taking photos, the band and event emcee also stood in front of the billboards and posed in a series of poses to take photos.Their expressions were as usual with professional smirks.The glare of the sun shone on their faces, causing them to squint their eyes unconsciously.They smiled, but this smile made people feel sour in their hearts, it was the imprint of running around for life.

The person in charge asked several spectators to take a photo with the car coaches in front of the billboard. After the group photo is taken, the activity will be over.

The crowd dispersed, and the two responsible persons asked us to sit and rest in the glass room and wait for lunch at noon.A photographer was outside filming the car driving on the track.Of course, what should have been experienced by visiting spectators and new car owners is now driven by instructors, all just to complete the filming.

By lunch time, the photographer also finished shooting.Lunch is a takeaway order, braised chicken and rice.We had a lively lunch in the glass room, but the scene outside was extremely silent.It is simply unimaginable that this is the scene of a new car launch event.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the two responsible persons felt that something was missing, so they asked us to change back into our clothes to pretend to be the brand's new car experiencers and cooperate with the photographer to record some small videos.

We sat in the car and shouted the campaign slogan of the car with thumbs up.We cooperated, expressions and movements under the guidance of the photographer to make a look of being happy and extremely fond of this car.The shooting was easily completed in just over half an hour.

At this point, all the tasks that need to be photographed and recorded have been completed.I also thoroughly understood everything about this part-time job activity.

The two persons in charge, one tall and one short, and the photographer are from an event execution company.The company is mainly responsible for contacting similar branding activities.And the event that this company received this time is the release promotion of the brand's new car products in more than a dozen cities across the country.The two persons in charge need to lead photographers and some props provided by their own companies and car brands to shuttle between these dozens of cities, organizing each event one stop at a time.

The normal procedure is to publicize first, and then invite some car owners of the brand and people who are interested in this product to the scene on the day of the event.There will be an event master of ceremonies to host the press conference, and there will also be opening performances. Of course, lottery draws and interactive sessions are also essential.The most important thing is to invite owners and car enthusiasts to get in the car and experience the performance and driving experience of this car on the track.Every event link needs to shoot some videos and photos as the official online publicity in the future, and at the same time, it is also for the event executive company to leave on-site work proof for this event so that it can be explained to the brand side.

The first two stops of the event were carried out in an orderly manner according to normal procedures. How easy is it to organize a large-scale event?The scene is inevitably busy and tiring.But with the passage of time, the subsequent activities began to be replaced by today's general fraud.The audience is fake, the car owner is fake, the lottery and interaction are even fake, and everything is hired temporary personnel to act.Although the performers of the show are real, they are not professional.The shooting is just to preserve the basis of the event and not the real event.Only relying on twenty or thirty people can handle a publicity campaign, and the company can be described as a veritable "king of counterfeiting"!And the unfortunate and unlucky ones are probably the brand owners who cooperate with the company.How many fake cities like this are there?How many provinces and regions will there be?What about the whole country?We have no way of knowing.

We spent the whole afternoon chatting and being bored.But it's worth it to be bored with four young beauties.Those four beauties are college students who are about to graduate, and the part-time salary this time is 160 yuan.This can't help but make people feel the difference between young men and women in the same job!Doing almost the same work, young girls can enjoy much higher wages than boys.Moreover, for every part-time job in etiquette activities, the salary of girls is nearly double that of boys.

Most of the boys who were selected with me were college students who had just graduated or young people who had only been working for a few years.There is only one exception, a 31-year-old local who has been working part-time for a long time.After graduating from college, he worked in many jobs but none of them were very profitable.In the past few years, he has always wanted to join the financial department of some public institutions or enterprises to "eat public food", but all of them were not selected because they had no "connections" at home, and he has been living like this for these years.

The family also thought about making some "relationships" for him, but it was inevitable that he would need to pay some silver taels, but he did not agree.He believes that these units keep their income with droughts and floods all year round, but the salary is so small that it is no different from what he earns by going out to do part-time jobs all day long.The most important thing is that the condition of the family and the health of the parents themselves are not very good. It is better to keep the money spent on entrusting the relationship, in case something happens to the parents or the family, it can be used as an emergency.

Everyone also chatted about the selection incident in the morning, and everyone laughed about it without exception.The tall team leader lamented how lucky we were to have such a part-time job as them, and made money easily.At this time, his handsome hairstyle that was brushed back in the morning has changed over time.His current hair has half of his bangs covering his forehead, and the other half is still combed behind, which looks quite funny.The speech was not as impassioned as it was in the morning, and the whole person sat there looking very decadent, without a trace of energy, and he was a completely different person from when he first met him.

At 04:30 in the afternoon, the person in charge let us off work.They will also pack up the things needed for the next stop and send the logistics, ready to go to the next city to continue their activities.But I know they just repeated the pattern in another city.

Don't really know if this event executive company still exists today, but the model certainly still exists today.

(End of this chapter)