Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[medixgrad]

Originally Posted by Charo

The problem with those is that they were blessed to work solo or maybe with one other on someone's very rich farm, and they got spoiled. Yeah, it's nice to get those jobs when you're young in the game because it provides a really nice boost, but no one is entitled to that.

Even so, the way to level QUICKLY is to churn those short crops. If everyone planted these lucrative 3 and 4 day crops, there would be very little work at the market! The folks who power to the top fastest are the smart ones who figured out that they got more xp by churning short crops! Plus, they also realized that hour for hour, raspberries are by far the most profitable crop!

But asking people to "get" this is futile, most don't even know the forum exists.

Some of us have real lives, jobs, kids etc.. we don't have time to come to FT every two hours to harvest and plant raspberries.

[Charo]

Originally Posted by medixgrad

Some of us have real lives, jobs, kids etc.. we don't have time to come to FT every two hours to harvest and plant raspberries.

I am not expecting that everyone do raspberries. But all the folks feeling pissy about doing raspberries should be grateful that there is any work at all!

Now that most of the crops are ingredients for finished products, I have far less incentive to bother myself by going to the market. I have already put tractors on all three of my farms so that if I don't want to deal with the market, I can just get it done myself. Just this evening I decided to go to market instead of doing my farm myself, and I STILL had to clean up after workers did a sloppy job on my trees, and those who don't hide trees for plowing, and don't listen when I say that they need to hide trees and buildings to get all the plots.

[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!