Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[brionie]

Oh my goodness....

I was in the MP tonight and there were a few people looking for work, one of whom had "I work alone" as a user name. So I can kind of respect that. It just lets me know who not to hire. I didn't iggie the dude.... I mean, he wasn't begging or anything, which was cool.

So I asked if anyone wanted to do tomatoes and I'd hire them to plow afterwards. I asked again a few minutes later. I get hired, I go harvest some sugar cane. I go back and think I'm in a different room. I make the same offer and no-one volunteers except him (so I think I was maybe in the same room, because it'd be too weird if we both ended up in the same random room twice) , I don't hire anyone. I go back to my farm and start harvesting. Mr "I work alone" follows me in and says "so you didn't get anyone. You're too picky. Hire me." I ignored him so he goes "HIRE ME."

I finally said "I saw you the first time. First off, I don't hire jerks and I don't take kindly to random strangers telling me what to do. It's my farm, we do it my way."

He says "FINE B*****. I'm blocking you."

Oh Yes, do exactly what I want you to do, that'll show me!

[wallydog]

for me if things seem to be slowing and not working if i am cropping i try and leave a message for the boss so they know i had a problem , i am happy to work any job wether alone or with a gang money is money and points is points its only a game to many people stress to much x

[Miamine]

I've had it with the market. I've been here a long time, almost since the game began. I fought with others to get work durring the bad times. Times when 2 trees or a couple of strawberry plants was gratefully recieved.

Now I love the extra farms, and I love the new facilities. What I do not love anymore is the workers in the market place. This one won't do strawberries, this one only looks at pineapples, this one will only plow and can only work alone. I ask for a worker, and it seems most farmers are too rich and high level to answer back. The market place has turned into the gathering place, people just stand arround and refuse any offers of work.

And when they do take the work on offer, they come to your farm, harvest one small plot, leave the trees, and then they go off. Yes they say thank you, but they don't do the work, I'm left with half the crops to do and tons of trees to harvest. Not to speak of my other 2 farms which I didn't get the chance to show them.

I'VE FINISHED HIRING FROM THE MARKET.. It's much too stressfull, from now on I'll harvest all the crops and trees on my farm and do the plowing myself.

I am of course available for work, which seems to come easily because I don't need pumpkins, can harvest or plow, will work alone or with others, as long as the farmer hasn't hired 8 to harvest and another 8 to plow.

[njgranny]

when a farmer hires so many people to harvest and plow. They look like ants running all over the fields trying to find the corps. :-)

I've been lucky so far, though, that I've encountered good workers and good farmers to work for.

[DreamRaven]

I love to work...I harvest plow or do trees. The only time i turn down work is when i'm there to sell and i try to hide behind the tent to do that!! I know what you mean though, I hate going to the market to hire. I try to hire from my neighbors, and I also have a short list of buddies i can go to. But the are those days when i have to go to market to hire and it usually works out bad.

[Gridley]

I think there are two types of problems:

1. The accidental hiring problems
Suppose I go there and try to hire one or two people for a nice job. Honestly, I don't converse too much because most of the time I get ignored. So I send two requests... nothing. Two more, nothing. Two more, they accept. Meanwhile, persons 1-4 that I requested might have been busy selling crops, busy getting their child a snack or helping them in the bathroom, hiding their screen from their boss for a few minutes... who knows. Then they come back and accept the hire, and all of a sudden there are 6 people harvesting. I never intended to hire so many, I like to give good jobs to people when I can. I have been on the hiring side of this accidental issue, and I imagine there have been times I have been on the hired side of it as well. I am frequently off and on the computer with two homeschoolers here at home.

2. The purposeful hiring problems.
As described by the original poster, some people are just jerks about being hired. Sorry, I am usually jerky back. If I see:
"HIRRRRREEEE MMMEEE PLXXZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ pineaples !!!"
I hire them... to find my one hidden peach tree.

If I see "Will do a solo job ONLY. Need work. Harvest AND plow ONLY!!!" Then I hire them... and 6 others.

If I can't finish a job for some reason, I let the person know.

[Farmer McDonald]

The real problem is that there are so many people who are there selling their crops and not there to get work. It takes a long time to sell now that we have to page thru so many items to get to the ones to sell. When I am done selling my harvests and products, I usually find a hire request and who knows how long it has been there.
What I have found to work best is to make sure to say that you want someone to harvest and then plow, or someone to just harvest or just plow. I usually find people that way with no trouble. Yes, I do have the few who do not stay. I just had one come and leave right away. However, I find they are few and the nice are much higher in numbers. Try making sure you are trying to hire those who want to work and not all of the ones who are there just to sell.

[corogirl]

Originally Posted by Gridley

I think there are two types of problems:

1. The accidental hiring problems
Suppose I go there and try to hire one or two people for a nice job. Honestly, I don't converse too much because most of the time I get ignored. So I send two requests... nothing. Two more, nothing. Two more, they accept. Meanwhile, persons 1-4 that I requested might have been busy selling crops, busy getting their child a snack or helping them in the bathroom, hiding their screen from their boss for a few minutes... who knows. Then they come back and accept the hire, and all of a sudden there are 6 people harvesting. I never intended to hire so many, I like to give good jobs to people when I can. I have been on the hiring side of this accidental issue, and I imagine there have been times I have been on the hired side of it as well. I am frequently off and on the computer with two homeschoolers here at home.

2. The purposeful hiring problems.
As described by the original poster, some people are just jerks about being hired. Sorry, I am usually jerky back. If I see:
"HIRRRRREEEE MMMEEE PLXXZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ pineaples !!!"
I hire them... to find my one hidden peach tree.

If I see "Will do a solo job ONLY. Need work. Harvest AND plow ONLY!!!" Then I hire them... and 6 others.

If I can't finish a job for some reason, I let the person know.

My thoughts exactly!! I think there should be two markets.. 1 for people looking for work and one for farmers selling stuff. The ones who don't respond are there selling facility stuff that builds up very quickly in your storage. Then when they have sold everything they accept the offer to harvest or plough. I have done it myself occasionally. I offer work to up to 10 sometimes with no response then I get back to my farm and find half a dozen working there??? I wouldn't like it either and I am soooooo anti multi hiring but now I am finding I am a multi hirer myself and I do NOT like it.

[LoreneC]

I think there should be two markets

There are two markets. The online market and the offline market. Just go offline and it will be you and Tom and no one else!

[Miamine]

Originally Posted by corogirl

My thoughts exactly!! I think there should be two markets.. 1 for people looking for work and one for farmers selling stuff. The ones who don't respond are there selling facility stuff that builds up very quickly in your storage. Then when they have sold everything they accept the offer to harvest or plough. I have done it myself occasionally. I offer work to up to 10 sometimes with no response then I get back to my farm and find half a dozen working there??? I wouldn't like it either and I am soooooo anti multi hiring but now I am finding I am a multi hirer myself and I do NOT like it.

Yep... to make sure people don't run away, and because most people in the market place seem to ignore your request, I've found myself multi-hiring as well... I don't like to do it, and I don't like it done to me, but that's the way the upgrades have coded the game.

We need this changed, it's making the game more stressfull than ever.