Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices - Page 140

Berle · #1 Oct 02 2013, 10:08 PM

It is difficult for a farmer with no tools to do many farms. I have 4 x 4 tools and will not take a job unless my name is posted as small jobs only.

If a farmer is noted as no tools, I will designate only a few farms to be done and hire someone else to do a few farms also.

It is frustrating for me to have to keep careful watch on the progress of a worker and hire others when they leave without sending me a message. It is difficult to determine when someone has left.

A notification of how large the job is would be helpful to a prospective worker.

bluehair · #2 Oct 03 2013, 06:14 AM

I just to had to quit out of one job..was taking me too far long I wasnt able to leave the farmer a message to apologize but yes how big a job is going to be would be helpful

ccheney · #3 Oct 03 2013, 04:50 PM

I agree. I have had to leave many jobs because they were too much. I state in my status that I don't have tools and I still get jobs for 19 layered farms which would take me about an 45 mins to an hour a farm. I don't have 16-19 hrs a day to spend on a computer game. We definitely need a way to know the size of the job before we accept it. It would also be nice to know what people are willing to do before you hire them. It is so hard to get people to harvest/chop trees and flowers. I sent requests to 5 people who were asking for any job and every one turned my job down. I finally got one acceptance and he chopped 5 trees and left.

Edmo · #4 Oct 24 2013, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ccheney

I agree. I have had to leave many jobs because they were too much. I state in my status that I don't have tools and I still get jobs for 19 layered farms which would take me about an 45 mins to an hour a farm. I don't have 16-19 hrs a day to spend on a computer game. We definitely need a way to know the size of the job before we accept it. It would also be nice to know what people are willing to do before you hire them. It is so hard to get people to harvest/chop trees and flowers. I sent requests to 5 people who were asking for any job and every one turned my job down. I finally got one acceptance and he chopped 5 trees and left.

The person who hires u is probably desperate to find help for the chores of his/her farms. Both of you and them do not sign contracts therefore you can leave that farm for any reasons, but you should send them a message stating why you did not work. That's what I do, in case the farms are stacked 9x, or the trees are one here and 1 there. When I am hired to work in a farm I like the trees to be planted densely and not on single files because this wastes my time and fuel. If I don't finish a job, I notify the owner of the farm why I stopped working. On the other hand I plant my trees and flowers so that the hired helper has maximum benefit from helping me out. We should be caring for each other. Because I do not want my time to be wasted, I prefer to fish with my turbo boat it does not give me problems.

bluehair · #5 Oct 03 2013, 05:02 PM

i do have all the tools but it was getting late I think I had already spent an hour doing about 8 farms and still had another 12 to go....on some of the farms I had to go searching for that lone flower or tree

KnightRider · #6 Oct 03 2013, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bluehair

i do have all the tools but it was getting late I think I had already spent an hour doing about 8 farms and still had another 12 to go....on some of the farms I had to go searching for that lone flower or tree

Do you use the option to hide everything except what can be worked with the tool that you are holding?

bluehair · #7 Oct 03 2013, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightRider

Do you use the option to hide everything except what can be worked with the tool that you are holding?

yup did that ..its when they have huge farms and I try and make it as small as I can so it fits on my monitor so have to go every corner etc

ccheney · #8 Oct 10 2013, 01:25 PM

How is it that I am being hired to harvest/plow farms and when I get there there is nothing to do? I was just hired to harvest/plow 9 of 19 farms. Of those 9 farms only two had crops to harvest. The other 7 were all plowed fields. I have trees and flowers turned on and could see them and they all dimmed out when I clicked on my harvest tool so none of those farms had harvestable trees so the harvest obviously wasn't for trees or flowers, and my chopping tool was dimmed out so chopping wasn't the job either. When I've accidently clicked on the wrong farm when hiring I will get a pop saying I can't hire for that farm because there is no work to do there so how are others able to hire me for a farm with no work on it?

KnightRider · #9 Oct 10 2013, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ccheney

How is it that I am being hired to harvest/plow farms and when I get there there is nothing to do? I was just hired to harvest/plow 9 of 19 farms. Of those 9 farms only two had crops to harvest. The other 7 were all plowed fields. I have trees and flowers turned on and could see them and they all dimmed out when I clicked on my harvest tool so none of those farms had harvestable trees so the harvest obviously wasn't for trees or flowers, and my chopping tool was dimmed out so chopping wasn't the job either. When I've accidently clicked on the wrong farm when hiring I will get a pop saying I can't hire for that farm because there is no work to do there so how are others able to hire me for a farm with no work on it?

The only thing I can think of is there is work on the farms when they hired you, and they hire multiple people for the same farms, and the ones that are done when you get there was done by someone else before you got there.

Edmo · #10 Oct 24 2013, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ccheney

How is it that I am being hired to harvest/plow farms and when I get there there is nothing to do? I was just hired to harvest/plow 9 of 19 farms. Of those 9 farms only two had crops to harvest. The other 7 were all plowed fields. I have trees and flowers turned on and could see them and they all dimmed out when I clicked on my harvest tool so none of those farms had harvestable trees so the harvest obviously wasn't for trees or flowers, and my chopping tool was dimmed out so chopping wasn't the job either. When I've accidently clicked on the wrong farm when hiring I will get a pop saying I can't hire for that farm because there is no work to do there so how are others able to hire me for a farm with no work on it?

I agree with the Knightrider. They hire multiple workers, most probably because they are very busy in their personal lives. I never delegate 2 or more helpers to do same chore in the same farm. And if I am hires to do a job and if I see other people doing the same job that I was hired for, I leave that farm and I go to another farm where there are no workers. Also when I work into a farm and a farmer comes without tools, I stop working so that I give that farmers to earn some coins or xps.