Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[Charo]

"sorry, rl" is more than enough and takes only 5 seconds at most to type.

[EmmyLo]

Hi everyone. I am fairly new to FT and have learned a lot about hiring and working on others farms just by reading this thread. However, I have one question. When I hire someone to harvest my farm, how do I get them to plow it when they are through? I know I can ask them, but how do I enable that for them? I hired someone to harvest my field and I asked them if they wanted to plow. They said "yes" then they stood there. Were they waiting for me to do something?

Advise is greatly appreciated!

Signed,
A Newbie

[jeanieNGMsfarm]

Originally Posted by EmmyLo

Hi everyone. I am fairly new to FT and have learned a lot about hiring and working on others farms just by reading this thread. However, I have one question. When I hire someone to harvest my farm, how do I get them to plow it when they are through? I know I can ask them, but how do I enable that for them? I hired someone to harvest my field and I asked them if they wanted to plow. They said "yes" then they stood there. Were they waiting for me to do something?

Advise is greatly appreciated!

Signed,
A Newbie

you have to click them and select hire to plow keep in mind you need 10 neighbors to hire to plow

[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

Plus, most would never do them unless asked. People are finicky about their trees and a lot of people don't want them done.

Although in the past a lot of people wouldn't harvest trees unless the person asked them to there is no need in that any more. If people don't want their trees harvested then they have the option to hire us where we can't harvest trees. In my opinion if I have the ability to harvest trees I assume the farmer wants them harvested so I harvest them. There is no need anymore for the bull s*** of asking for permission to harvest something on someone's farm. Also I never say I have trees that need harvesting when I go to the mp and I always get my 2000+ trees harvested with no problem.

[Mr. H]

Originally Posted by JAS0643

Although in the past a lot of people wouldn't harvest trees unless the person asked them to there is no need in that any more. If people don't want their trees harvested then they have the option to hire us where we can't harvest trees. In my opinion if I have the ability to harvest trees I assume the farmer wants them harvested so I harvest them. There is no need anymore for the bull s*** of asking for permission to harvest something on someone's farm. Also I never say I have trees that need harvesting when I go to the mp and I always get my 2000+ trees harvested with no problem.

It's been my experience that a lot of people don't fully read the info box when they get hired and the vast majority, me included, don't have the trees on most of the time so don't even see them. One of my farms is mostly covered with trees and you can't even harvest with them on. The orginial has about 140 on top of a portion of the crops so they need to be off to get it all done.

I've read the box, knew I was getting hired to do both crops and trees and totally forgotten about it by the time I'm done harvesting because they aren't on. And, I hire two people to harvest on each of my farms 3 to 5 times a day and I get questions about trees every day....can they do them or why can't they do them. So, I know there's still some confusion even after all this time.

I've also inadvertantly clicked the wrong hire option. Usually they never touch the trees. But, I also tend to hire the more aggressive job hunters. They tend to want to get right to the plowing as soon as possible.

I don't think it's b.s. to ask someone about the trees if you want to do them or you want them done. It's just common courtesy. It eliminates confusion.

Anyway, the original reason for responding was the "babysitting" comment.

I hire from the MP way more than the average player and my experiences have been, overall, very, very good.

Connection issues can be a problem. Communicaton can be a problem sometimes...I can't tell you how many people I've hired who didn't have great command of the English language. I've hired people from all over Europe, Asia and Australia and every part of the US.

I never expect my next hire to be my new best friend, but I have made some friends there.

I hire only to get the work done and to get them and me some points and coins.

I tend to hire the more aggressive job seekers, but never those that flood the chat box.

I have rarely had issues but stuff happens. I spent an extra 20 minutes the other day with a woman with connection problems getting her to refresh and rehiring her so she could finish plowing and get the points. If I hadn't been there I would have come back to an unfinished job and thought she got booted. I would have never thought she was a slacker that didn't finish the job. I would have assumed connection issues and I'd have been right.

[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by Mr. H

I don't think it's b.s. to ask someone about the trees if you want to do them or you want them done. It's just common courtesy. It eliminates confusion.

I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this because the two hiring options take care of any confusion as to do people want trees done, if they don't want their trees done then either hire the right way or if you hit the wrong thing say something when you get to your farm. If I was hired to do trees but the farmer said sorry I hit the wrong thing will you not do the threes I would respect that, but I'm not going to ask if it is okay on the off chance they hit the wrong option. I personally have always thought that it was BS for the person hired to ask if they can do trees. It is the person who does the hiring job to tell their employes that they don't want trees done. Everyone always thought it was an unwritten rule that EVERYONE in farm town knew and followed and got really ****** off when their trees where harvested even though they had not said one word about not harvesting them. In my opinion some of the tree huggers took the game way to seriously and still do.