Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[snow_angel]

Originally Posted by cherylap

If someone hires you to do multi tasks on multi farms and you have specifically asked for "flowers" (in my case) which i accepted the job (and would have done all tasks hired for if my main request was available as well) you get to the farm/s and the employer tells you there is only plowing (I prefer not to do at all) are you supposed to plow or apologise and leave.

I dont want to be rude but not sure what the correct thing to do now with all the multi tasks available...

Since you specifically asked for flowers I'd say 'sorry but I asked for flowers not a plowing job' then leave. Not sure why this person would even ask for multitask if they only had plowing.

[pythonis]

a lot of people think the multiple hire option was to just check every box then send out job offers. Kind of a "lazy man's" way of hiring. You never have to check to see what all is done when you can just hire for everything at once. Thing is, it really ticks those on the receiving off once they get to the farm and see all those jobs arent really available.

[tnbskts]

Yes, it's annoying to get to a farm, having been hired to harvest and plow and whatnot, and find that there's only fishing. I guess, with the ability to hire people for multiple farms, it does allow that sort of abuse. Trouble is, it'd take forever to hire someone if you had to specify upfront, harvesting and plowing on farms 3 and 4, fishing on farm 5, chopping on farm 6, and flowers on farm 7.

I'm finding it makes it harder to hire people for multiple farms, with the option to hire for several farms at once. I hired two people by mistake - the first didn't respond to the hire for a while so I hired someone else - then when the first person did show up, she didn't do any harvesting, just waited for the other person to harvest and followed her around plowing, which upset the other person quite a lot.

I know the option to have a "fire your worker" feature has been discussed for years and rejected, but there are times I'd really like it.

One thing I would like, now we have this option for multihire on different farms, is the ability to cancel a hire request if someone doesn't respond for a while, so you can go and hire someone else and know you won't have two or more people falling over each other on your various farms.

[spartan7886]

Sometimes the opposite happens. I'll hire to harvest, plow, and fish on multiple farms. Farm 1 is only fishing, later farms are all harvest and plow. I've had quite a few people get huffy and leave without doing anything because they think I tricked them by including the harvest and plow.

[cherylap]

Thanks for the responses... I am glad that i have been responding to employers "thanks but i didnt want plowing" .. Seems to be the best thing to do...

Makes me feel guilty still but I dont need xp's, dollars but struggle to keep up with fruit or flowers.

This gives me an incentive to go to the market and look for work and look at other peoples farm rather than just mine... lol......

I Love the hire multiple tasks and farms feature it does make things easier alot of the time. (saves forgetting what farm has a worker on there already and hiring multiple people to do a few tasks.)

Thanks again...

[tnbskts]

I agree about the plowing; people aren't entitled to plow just because they've harvested, although it doesn't hurt to ask. Then again, it does annoy me a bit if I've been hired to harvest a large field of raspberries and the farmer brings someone else in to plow!

Not sure about the fruit, though. I've sometimes asked, after harvesting and plowing,"do you want me to harvest your fruit? (or flowers, or chop)" and have been hired to do it; people working on my farm have asked if I want them to fish or harvest flowers even though I didn't hire them to, and I've been happy to rehire them. I tend to just set my hiring parameters for harvesting crops and plowing, just because that's all I need on most of my farms, but it doesn't mean I'm going to be offended if someone offers to harvest flowers on the couple of farms that have them.

[ImTheRealElly]

the option tohire someone to do everything on all farms is awesome!!! but, is there a reason to have 'crops and trees", crops and flowers"
why not just "crops" "trees" "flowers".
if you want someone to do only flowers there is no way to hire them for just that.

[PJ1234]

I've got to say that Farm Town players have become so rude it's taken all the fun & relaxation out of playing. Those of us who choose not to use real money to purchase the combines, etc. get walked all over by those who have them. It's absolutely rude and frustrating. I've taken a couple of weeks off from the game because I was so angry one evening. Now after a couple of evenings playing again, I remember why. It was fun for awhile, but now, I've had enough. No longer relaxing and enjoyable.

[Jean's Farm]

Originally Posted by PJ1234

I've got to say that Farm Town players have become so rude it's taken all the fun & relaxation out of playing. Those of us who choose not to use real money to purchase the combines, etc. get walked all over by those who have them. It's absolutely rude and frustrating. I've taken a couple of weeks off from the game because I was so angry one evening. Now after a couple of evenings playing again, I remember why. It was fun for awhile, but now, I've had enough. No longer relaxing and enjoyable.

Your best bet to make it fun again is to get one of your neighbors to do your harvesting and let you harvest yours. I have a standing arrangement every night at 8pm I meet up with a friend and I do his farms and he does mine.

I never hire from the market anymore....people hardly ever said thank you!! And they were rude harvesting like you said.

If you are using your crops to load your facilities....you can harvest yourself and still get the same amount of crops for facs. The large amount you see is only used if you sell your crops in the market.

If you do go to the market and find the farm you go to has a bunch of rude players.....just leave....so sense in getting upset....I bet you have neighbors who would let you harvest and vice versa.

[ian waite]

think what pj is alluding to is those that have the say combine who never give others the chance to harvest

i have it but if im hired along with someone who hasnt got it then i will either leave or share the work i cant see the point in being greedy now ..