Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[♫Tiki♫]

cuz of people like that it would be great , I mean Grrreat to have FIRE button
I love to harvest, no mater which crops, trees too, I get iritated by peeps who only want pineapples and such , usualy i dont do plowing as I dont need exp but i do it for my friends if my arm is not too tired ,lol

[magsmain]

Originally Posted by Miamine

I've had it with the market. I've been here a long time, almost since the game began. I fought with others to get work durring the bad times. Times when 2 trees or a couple of strawberry plants was gratefully recieved.

Now I love the extra farms, and I love the new facilities. What I do not love anymore is the workers in the market place. This one won't do strawberries, this one only looks at pineapples, this one will only plow and can only work alone. I ask for a worker, and it seems most farmers are too rich and high level to answer back. The market place has turned into the gathering place, people just stand arround and refuse any offers of work.

And when they do take the work on offer, they come to your farm, harvest one small plot, leave the trees, and then they go off. Yes they say thank you, but they don't do the work, I'm left with half the crops to do and tons of trees to harvest. Not to speak of my other 2 farms which I didn't get the chance to show them.

I'VE FINISHED HIRING FROM THE MARKET.. It's much too stressfull, from now on I'll harvest all the crops and trees on my farm and do the plowing myself.

I am of course available for work, which seems to come easily because I don't need pumpkins, can harvest or plow, will work alone or with others, as long as the farmer hasn't hired 8 to harvest and another 8 to plow.

here here i fully agree. it's worse than waiting in the dentist's i have given up hiring unless i have high value goods people do not want to know, and yes the time when one small plot was enough and when we got pineapples we nearly jumped up and down with glee.

[Sue Bee Doo]

I agree it takes forever to sell products and I am constantly being asked to be hired. I try to hide up in the top corner. I think a place separate from the hiring area is needed for selling products.

I also think that it shouldn't matter if one harvests pineapples or peanuts, the hired harvester should get the same amount. This would eliminate the fighting to harvest pineapples in the marketplace. This way they are paid for the work they do, not the type crop.

[Gridley]

Barely anyone uses The Inn. They should make it the Temp Agency.

[Alanlee]

If you go off line before you go to the market no one can see you and then you can sell your products in peace. Just click the green plug and make it red, go to market, sell stuff and then click it back to green if you want to hire or be hired.

[HLeeV]

Originally Posted by Alanlee

If you go off line before you go to the market no one can see you and then you can sell your products in peace. Just click the green plug and make it red, go to market, sell stuff and then click it back to green if you want to hire or be hired.

I do that all the time on my FB farm. I can't be in the MP two seconds without getting a hire request (not complaining--just bad timing. lol). So, I go offline, go to the MP, sell what I want to sell, then go online if I'm looking for workers or looking for a job.

I know some people don't trust going off line as they are afraid things won't add up but so far, for months now, I have not had a problem with it.

Now with my MS farm, it doesn't seem to matter if I go off line or not. I haven't been hired to work a farm in a couple weeks there.

[LoreneC]

Originally Posted by Alanlee

If you go off line before you go to the market no one can see you and then you can sell your products in peace. Just click the green plug and make it red, go to market, sell stuff and then click it back to green if you want to hire or be hired.

What she said. I do all my selling offline now. I wish more people did this.

[SueW170]

Originally Posted by LoreneC

What she said. I do all my selling offline now. I wish more people did this.

Thanks for that reminder.

[Jailnurse]

Thanks for that, Alanlee! I didn't know that. Also, I noticed that when I get up in the early AM Calif time, most people are trying to hire, then later on in the morning the trend shifts to workers. Probably depends on whatever server you're on. I'd have to say my experience in hiring at the Marketplace (95% of the time I do hire from here) has been hugely rewarding. I have met some very nice people from all over the world who have the same interests as I do and we have really nice chats. I ignore the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's and if I'm hired and there's 10 other people, I just leave. I'm sure they never even notice!

[Alanlee]

I've been playing since last July and have never lost a coin when selling while off line. I also go off line when I am working on my own farm, planting or moving stuff around and now fishing, if I don't want any company.