<p>Is or has anyone else's child had to jump through major hoops and go to several different places just to be able to begin their work study job? Trying to find out if this is the normal process. Son had to go to one place to fill out paperwork, another place to meet with the hiring person and now has 3 business days to go to someplace called Tulane Square to do something else. I can sense that he's starting to get a bit frustrated with the process.</p>
<p>Anyone else have any insight?</p>
<p>I don’t have much insight, just that I have heard similar anecdotes at least several times, maybe as many as a dozen. No idea why it is so hard.</p>
<p>GreenWaveMama: My d, a junior had a substantial work study award her first two years at Tulane. She tried hard to find something her freshman year. She finally gave up and found a job off campus. She didn’t even try to get a work study last year, other than her RA job, and was not offered work study for this year.</p>
<p>I was frustrated, because in my experience places like the food service and library on various college campuses I have known have always been big work study employers. I guess not so much at Tulane.</p>
<p>Just an FYI, D works at Reginelli’s, has since her freshman year, and she says they are understaffed right now. She likes it well enough to be going into her third year of employment. They give her the summer, winter, and Thanksgiving breaks off with no problem. The one she works at is just a bike ride away from campus.</p>
<p>Well S1 has a non-work study job on campus and I think that the process for you son is typical. The trip to Tulane Square is to fill out the necessary paperwork for tax filings and more importantly for getting paid. It’s simply applying for the job, interviewing and then think of it as “new employee orientation.”</p>
<p>I have had to explain to my kids many times that these “hassles” are just part of life. Everything is new for freshmen and each new step seems to them a major hurdle, and in the past most have had help with all of these things they now have to do everything on their own.</p>
<p>He already has the job, it’s now the runaround to get all set up. Last step will be taking the shuttle to University Square today to verify that he’s a US Citizen and finalizing direct deposit, etc. 
I was just surprised that it couldn’t all be done in one location.</p>
<p>He’ll be Event Staff for the Athletic Department. </p>
<p>He has also applied for jobs at the Crepe place and the Boot convenience store.</p>
<p>Kat, he said that every kid at the job fair took the tax forms back to their dorms to fill out, with the same response, “My Mom has always helped with this.” Haha…</p>
<p>GWMama: My son is also part of the Event Staff! I got the phone call and text pictures of the forms when he originally started doing it! The paperwork issues are just typical. But Tulane is one of the largest employers in the city, so they have a central place for all that paperwork processing. It’s a hassle, but at least it ultimately leads to a paycheck! :)</p>
<p>Yes, just another example of the effect of having a relatively small campus that has little room for expansion. Tulane is rather forced to house certain administrative areas in other locations. For example, the entire development team is downtown by the med school. For those not familiar with college-speak, development is the code word at all universities for fundraising.</p>
<p>But I think the relatively small hassle factor associated with these issues is worth it to keep the green space and beauty the campus maintains. I would hate to see them try to cram any more buildings on the main campus after the Zimple Dorm. Even that brought some complaints about how it shrank the Zimple Quad, but as I mentioned elsewhere this building has been on the Tulane future plans for years, decades even. At least I am pretty sure I read that somewhere.</p>
<p>I received the same pictures, Kat! :-)</p>