dbe really out here turning students into unpaid call center employees
so apparently members of cells are now being given sheets full of names and phone numbers of people who haven't filled some application form and are expected to call them, ask why they haven't filled it, record their responses, and report back.
and before someone says "it's for student welfare" or whatever, we literally got told this is a "strategic initiative to better understand student needs and ensure they are supported during the transition."
brother.
if the institution wants feedback from students, hire people for it. send an official survey. have the administration do it. why are students being turned into unpaid telecallers?
the funniest part is the justification that this is a "seasonal requirement" and therefore a normal part of the workload and "all of your efforts are being documented" like wtf what they gonna give us 'the best employee of the month'
since when was cold-calling students a normal academic activity?
and let's be real here. if a business development intern was asked to spend hours calling leads, at least they'd be getting paid. students are paying fees and somehow ending up doing the outreach work themselves.
js use fee of few students and hire an intern, why you guys being so cheap?
the irony is recently the chairperson did a podcast w bhavesh talking about why not to join this course.
i genuinely don't understand why institutions w thousands of students and crores in fee revenue keep trying to squeeze free labour out of students whenever something operational needs to get done.
maybe i'm overreacting, but being told to spend my time acting as a telecaller because someone somewhere doesn't want to hire actual staff feels absurd.
(yes, i used gpt to write cause what I wrote was full of rant and fuck dbe)
TLDR: making us call students who haven't filled the application form and ask them why because apparently this is to help out students who are facing issues in filling them form so why don't we force our current students to force upcoming students to fill the form so that we can make extra money