Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[Oklahoma Rose]

Originally Posted by Special Agent Mandii

I don't enjoy the abuse I receive for telling people that I won't hire them to plough - especially when I have a layered farm. I try to tell them that I don't see the use in it as it won't work, and even link them to the thread about layered farms, but they continue to abuse me. There are so many players on my ignore list that it's actually quite annoying. I'm always a very placid farmer; I do as I'm told, make idle conversation and politely request to plough afterwards - sometimes I refuse an offer to plough as I'm feeling particularly charitable and want the person I'm working with to get the exp from ploughing. I don't particularly need it, after all, it's just a nice little thing to fill my spare time. I can't understand some peoples' obsession with ploughing. It's just EXP, and there's no need to be rude over it.

I personally usually only ever try to hire two to three people to harvest at my farm; however, when I hire people and don't get a response quickly [within thirty seconds to one minute], I go and hire the next person in the marketplace. As a result, people have responded very late to my hire requests, come to my farm when there is very little work left, and proceeded to abuse me and accuse me of over-hiring for entertainment. I don't mind that there isn't a fire button, but I'm very thankful that there's an ignore button. I don't have the patience to deal with people who won't listen when I attempt to reason with them an offer an explanation. I'm kind enough to bother explaining myself to rude employees - they should learn to be kind enough to bother to listen to my explanation.

I also don't like people who believe that they have the right to harvest and plow my whole farm on their own. I know that a lot of my farm is taken up by decorative structures, trees, flowers and fencing, but I also know that there are still plenty of crops to harvest, especially as I tend to plant crops which have high monetary returns. Occasionally I've hired one person when I've felt like spoiling them or when I've only been satisfied with the behaviour of one person in the marketplace, and upon telling them that they have the whole harvest to themselves, have received such comments as "I like to work alone." or "I would have left if you had hired someone else." Well, with an attitude like that, I want them to leave. I've often gone back to the marketplace and hired another person anyway [yes, out of spite] to show them that it's a game that involves working for things and that they can't have things handed to them on a silver platter. The people in the marketplace who post such comments as "I work ALONE!" also find themselves on my ignore list. It's just selfish. They really need to go back to primary school and listen to their teachers when they're being told about the benefits of sharing.

If people just approached the Internet with a sense of etiquette and a reminder that the people on the other side of the screen are real people, this whole "Internetz r srs bsns" attitude would be dropped altogether, and I for one would be very happy. I don't need to cop this from rude employees; I could have just as easily hired somebody else entirely to do my work, and instead they complain that there isn't much left when they gave me the impression that they were AFK, or that I won't let them plow when I have a layered farm or am rearranging my plots.

I actually appreciate farmers who do not want you to plow their farms, especially the layered farms. This is a difficult technique to learn and one I admire. I first heard about from a friend, Lisa Astrup, who spent over an hour one evening teaching me about the technique and providing links so I could learn how to do this when I have my second farm. I won't try it until then because to do so, I'd have to go to more effort on my first farm than I want to now that I have it loaded to the max with "stuff" around crops.

I don't want anyone plowing for me. I just like to do it myself. It's my first farm here and with all the other issues I've had with this game (including the disappearance of a recently purchased Sandwich Shop that, less than 24 hours old, vanished while in full production, as did a new and full rabbit hutch less than 4 hrs from harvest, and several Christmas decorations.) I've tried to hire people and even some I hired were the same ones with larger farms who kept sending me msgs about working for me now that they hired me, they didn't show, one did but didn't want to fish which is what I contracted out.

Some of the larger farmers are so awesome and so helpful to the newcomers. I have friends and mentors who are, but some are downright horses' behinds. I, too, have a **** list --- of workers I won't hire and farmers I won't ever work for again, nor do business with in Market.

Just wanted to add my 2 cents worth to your complaint.

Have a blessed day!