You enter college almost instantly incurring debt and financial hardship. Businesses know this is so, so they take their chances to lure you into bad working conditions, scams, and try to pull moves they know would never work with a regular adult. If you’re a student living in Florida, you know that gasoline is pretty much food, you will get nowhere without a car and gasoline.
You see “make tons of money” and see student testimonials that they survived college thanks to these employment scams. What you don’t see is all the hours those students put in just to make small amounts of money that they could have easily made somewhere else in half the time. You don’t see the things that student had to pay for that forced them to stay in such conditions.
Since entering college, I have came slightly close to entering these employment situations. I usually at least give a job opportunity a shot, but once I start to sense a scam I quickly pull out. “It’s an opportunity you’ll regret” they say. I don’t think so. It is much better than joining up and they quitting a few weeks later because I have been pulled into a scam. One big red flag for me is sales jobs that require you to buy the merchandise and then re-sell it to others. They don’t count on you selling it so much as they count on you buying the goods and then being stuck with it until you pay it off and owe them money in the process.
I also hate it when friends try and lure you into these traps. On one side they are just trying to get by and make money too. On the other, it’s just plain selfish for friends to think just because they got swindled into something that they should try and make you a part of it. I think one of the worst parts is that the people who are really struggling really have no choice and these business owners feel no shame in what they do to others and how they treat employees.
This could be said to be a major problem in Florida in general. The lack of many unions in Florida and employee rights leaves even people in successful positions frequently in situations that should not be tolerated at all by employment laws. Companies that have the nerve to rub it in peoples faces that because of the economic conditions are bad that they will do whatever they want to employees deserve bankruptcy.
