Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[suenew]

Is it just me or have others noticed , no please or thankyou when you help on a crop it makes me so angry .

[Cookie01]

I agree. I always say 'please and thank you' whether I'm hiring or helping.

[RN2GO]

I'm sure there are people who just don't say please and thank you, but the chat box is far from perfect. I always say please and thank you, but sometimes I thank a farmer who isn't there. When they do show up they don't know I've thanked them for work.

Other times I hit send when the farmer shows up - and my thank you never shows up in the chat box. By the time I realize it the farmer has left again.

Given that I know sometimes it appears that I lack manners, I give others the benefit of the doubt and assume that they, too, are polite and blame the chat feature.

[Indigo Rose]

Oh don't get me started. LOL.

I have found such a big difference to hiring now as compared to 12 months ago.

If I can find a worker in the MP that wants to harvest and plow (not one or the other) they almost never say hello, thanks or bye. In fact a lot just never seem to finish a job. Harvest and leave or harvest partially then want to plow, ect, ect. I am so over hiring but sometimes I just don't feel like doing it and figure if someone is in the MP they must want to work but by geez I don't know, I have just about given up, do it nearly all myself as most my buddies don't play anymore.

[countryboy007]

I've learned how to deal with this one. i only hire the ones who say please at the market. they are the ones who always say thank you while working. Then i add the good ones to my buddy list for later. Works for me. This way i don't have problems.

[Angels Shangri-La]

Well, this is one of my pet hates, I now call it the Sharket Place. When I first started playing it was rare to come accross someone who didn't say please or thankyou. There were far more glitches with the game, especially timing out and loading. I always ask for someone to harvest AND plow, they harvest and disappear. Anyway, I still use my manners even if others don't.

[BethFB]

I would usually go to the market place to get hired or to hire people to harvest and plow for me, and I say I need two people to harvest and plow for me. This is a combo job.

And for the most part, I get maybe four people wanting to do both for me. I only pick two even though there are four who want the jobs. I tell them thanks I got my two. Maybe another time. So that way, they know I may hire them at a later date.

But for the most part when I am hired to harvest, there's a few others harvesting at the same time and when that's done the employer who hired us to harvest never returns to give us a plowing job. I actually messaged the farmer stating that I would like to plow for him and I waited for him to return and when he did, he had hired others to do his plowing for him. He claimed he never saw the e-mail. I told him to look at the top of his farm where the experience points are located at, you see an envelope, it should have a red number on it. He saw it and apologized for not knowing what that was and he hired me to harvest and then plow another field for him, with him apologizing for not seeing the message.

I knew he didn't know what the envelope was so I forgave him and did my job that he hired me for.

But usually when I go into the MP now, its to hire people to harvest and plow for me and when I do not have crops to harvest, I do go to get hired or to sell my crops that I have. And I am polite about it too. I don't go SCREAMING FOR A BLOODY ARES JOB!

There are people in the MP, who would scream I want a job. And if you need someone to fish for you, you hire them, they see what their job is and poof, they vanish on you. When you return to the MP to get a replacement hire, that person is there crying out I need a job, no fishing! Well, if that person didn't want to fish, all they had to say was I need a job but please no fishing, I wouldn't have hired them in that case. I think people there seem to forget their manners and is demanding of jobs and yet when you give them a job, no matter what it is, they either vanish on you or they tell you in a snotty way that this is not what I want to do and then vanish on you before you could even counter their comment.

I love polite people in the market place, 100% of the time, I'll hire them to harvest/plow my fields.

Beth

[hornetfish]

This has happened twice in two days...
I go to the market place to hire a harvester.
I hire one but no 'great, I'll go with you' message appears and the employees avatar disappears from the MP.
So I hire someone else. When we both get to my farm, a minute or two later, the original employee shows up.

How can the first employee arrive at the farm AFTER the second employee arrives? Are they going to do another job first?

I'd love to know the answer as it's a bit embarrasing to have 2 harvesters on a titchy field!
Thank you
Hornetfish

[Deb NZ]

Originally Posted by hornetfish

This has happened twice in two days...
I go to the market place to hire a harvester.
I hire one but no 'great, I'll go with you' message appears and the employees avatar disappears from the MP.
So I hire someone else. When we both get to my farm, a minute or two later, the original employee shows up.

How can the first employee arrive at the farm AFTER the second employee arrives? Are they going to do another job first?

I'd love to know the answer as it's a bit embarrasing to have 2 harvesters on a titchy field!
Thank you
Hornetfish

Yes the first person you hired has already accepted another job when he/she gets there she weighs up whether the crop is worth doing and if she decides not, having held your hire request on her screen, she then accepts yours and arrives late at your place.

[s-money]

I'm finding it's a lot harder now to hire people than it used to be. I feel like more people are at the MP to hire than to work. And when someone says they DO want a job, I try to click on them and they get hired out from under me.

I'm also starting to get sick of going to the MP just to hire people, and before I can, I have people offering ME jobs, then I have to click that I'm not interested and maybe I lose my window to hire the person that said they're looking. Because usually you have to click them the split second they say so or someone beats you to the punch.

Don't know if this was discussed (can I really be expected to read all 48 pages of this thread?) but if the powers that be happen to see this, I think a better system would be a job board. Post the job(s) you have available and people can see what's there and take the jobs they want. Job seekers would probably still have to scramble for work, but at least there would be less hassle for employers.