Running for an internship and becoming a water army？ You don’t have to go online to practice. The reporter personally experienced and found a lot of tricks.

Illustration: Huang Xi

Shenzhen News Network September 18, 2023(Shenzhen Evening News reporter Li Chao Intern Yang ZhenyuPeople don’t have to go to work, they can participate in the internship online. In recent years, distance practice has been favored, and many college students practice on the sidelines while studying at school. With the beginning of the new semester, "remote internship" has once again become a hot spot for recruitment platform search. However, there are many problems in remote internship, and the problem of "selling dog meat by hanging sheep’s head" is more prominent.

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Practice proof becomes practice proof.

The Survey of Students’ Internship 2022 released by Worry-Free Future shows that distance internship has risen among students. Among the data displayed on the homepage of the "Monk of Practice" platform, "Remote" is the first hot search word for users.

Late at night, the reporter directly hired in Boss to see that a well-known tourism platform recruited new media operation remote interns, with the salary marked as 200 to 250 yuan/day, and the job introduction marked that the salary was not calculated by the day, but calculated according to the work effect. The platform shows that the job of this position includes operating and maintaining social accounts to ensure that the account status is active; Write high-quality social platform notes and strategies; Create explosive notes and maintain an interactive atmosphere.

Later, the reporter tried to deliver it late at night and got a quick reply. After writing a 400-word little red book travel guide post as required, he entered the post briefing. At the briefing meeting, the position clearly defined as a remote internship in the recruitment information became a part-time job. The enterprise stressed that it would receive a practice certificate instead of an internship certificate after completing a part-time job for three months. Late at night, the reporter questioned this and got the reply that "this job is a long-distance part-time internship, and it can only be proved by practice". The company did not further explain the mismatch of positions.

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The operation of new media has become a "real water army"

Although the actual harvest of the post is different from the job description, the actual work content is consistent with the job requirements, both of which are operating new media accounts.

During the reporter’s experience late at night, it was found that the key nature and matters of his post were deliberately concealed by the recruitment company. The actual work was not to become a member of the company’s official account operation as imagined, but to operate a personal account, and to publish posts with the nature of dark and wide water army in the personal account, and to become a high-quality real-life water army of the company by raising a personal account.

The specific task is to write a drainage post every day with a personal account according to the specified content template, embed the content of drainage and advertising for the enterprise, such as "20% discount coupon for fuel", etc., and embed the new drainage code (6-7 Arabic numerals) generated by each person in the background every day into it to attract and guide users to search for the drainage code and place an order. The audience of the post thinks that what they see is real sharing, but they don’t know that it is a drainage advertisement carefully organized, packaged and approved by the enterprise.

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Internship salary is out of reach.

In addition to attracting students in the name of long-distance internship in large factories, the project also set up a detailed incentive mechanism to stimulate students to publish high-quality drainage content.

The recruitment staff of this position said that the salary settlement rule is "basic posting salary+post-breaking reward+new guest reward", and the key indicator is the number of customers, and the monthly salary can reach 8,000 to 10,000 yuan. However, when the reporter experienced it late at night, he found that it was not easy to reach the salary standard. In addition to writing a basic drainage post every day, he also needed four posts with more than 5,000 likes every month, and at least 400 new customers were recruited and the order was completed to reach the monthly salary of 8,000 yuan.

In order to achieve higher salary, distance interns need to constantly improve the quality of drainage posts and attract as many new customers as possible. Lin Lin, a student of "Remote Internship", said that he sent 16 drainage posts in July, which took about 3 hours every day, but he only got a salary of 942 yuan a month. In addition to the traffic harvest, the platform also passed on the risks such as current restriction and titles brought by drainage and darkness to the interns. Lin Lin’s account has been restricted and banned by the platform because of the required drainage and advertising posts. "This time it is 7 days, and the next time it will be 14 days," she said.

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Unworthy "remote internship" involves illegal activities.

For such "remote internship" positions, Tong Xin, director of Guangdong Guanghe Law Firm, believes that false job introduction is suspected of violating the law. When employing workers, the employing unit shall truthfully inform the workers of their work contents, working conditions, working place, occupational hazards, safety production conditions, labor remuneration and other information that the workers require to know, and shall not publish false recruitment information. If the published recruitment information is untrue or illegal, they will face relevant penalties. Found this situation, have the right to complain and report to the administrative department of labor security.

Tong Xin said that the company set up a long-distance internship position, and recruited college students with conditions such as opening internship certificates and supporting back-tuning, as an act of the company’s real-life water army to drain the darkness, even if it truthfully informed the work-related information, it violated public order and good customs.

At the same time, the enterprise’s recruitment of college students as high-quality real-life water army in the name of new media operation remote internship is suspected of violating many laws and regulations, such as Advertising Law, Regulations on Ecological Governance of Network Information Content, Regulations on Management of Internet Users’ Public Account Information Service, and infringing on consumers’ rights and interests, which is not conducive to the construction of clear network space and fair competition in the market. Traffic fraud involves violations of many administrative, civil and criminal regulations.