Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[Vivienne57]

Originally Posted by LadyLen1

as someone that likes and owns the "tools" I would like to throw my "2 cents" in.When I am hired I immediately begin working the farm IF and that is a big IF I see another person tools or not generally w/o I will apologize and leave going to other farm or back to market. I don't think it is anyone but the Hiring Farmers fault. Why would you hire someone w/o tools when there are so many in mktplc stating they that is ridicoulos HAVE tools. @nd why Hire multiple farmers AT ALL! That is ridicoulous, your just making trouble. usr farmers without tools or without not TOGETHER!
I also blame devs for not making playing screen large enough to see more than a third of farm at a time!
If they can bre expandad then making original screen larger should not be a problem. Just greed of course make it too big no one would purchase expansion!

If you had read the post properly.....it was said that some farmers lie that they have tools and you only find out when they start working your farms that they haven't got any. Also why shouldn't we hire multiple farmers, it's our choice. When you have 15 farms it's a lot of work for 1 person and maybe that's why they don't finish. I have hired multiple farmers and have never had a problem

[bluehair]

Originally Posted by Vivienne57

If you had read the post properly.....it was said that some farmers lie that they have tools and you only find out when they start working your farms that they haven't got any. Also why shouldn't we hire multiple farmers, it's our choice. When you have 15 farms it's a lot of work for 1 person and maybe that's why they don't finish. I have hired multiple farmers and have never had a problem

on the odd occasiion when I have had multiple farms that need harvesting. when I get to ther market place I will say who has the combine tool and wants to do X number of farms (will be 15 tomorrow) on the odd occasion someon had said yes and they do not even have the 5X5 harvester...I tell you there is no way I would want to harvest single plots at a time lol

[Jean's Farm]

Originally Posted by LadyLen1

as someone that likes and owns the "tools" I would like to throw my "2 cents" in.When I am hired I immediately begin working the farm IF and that is a big IF I see another person tools or not generally w/o I will apologize and leave going to other farm or back to market. I don't think it is anyone but the Hiring Farmers fault. Why would you hire someone w/o tools when there are so many in mktplc stating they that is ridicoulos HAVE tools. @nd why Hire multiple farmers AT ALL! That is ridicoulous, your just making trouble. usr farmers without tools or without not TOGETHER!
I also blame devs for not making playing screen large enough to see more than a third of farm at a time!
If they can bre expandad then making original screen larger should not be a problem. Just greed of course make it too big no one would purchase expansion!

I have totally lost count of the amount of times I have been hired in the market place and when I get to the farm....there are already 4 or 5 people there and nothing left to do. Or a couple people already started and have over half it done. So I grab "my corner" of the world and before I know it someone is fighting me for what's left. And I have also been nice and left half the farm for someone with out tools. Only fair.

So, I'd like to say, "People if you have more than one farm that needs done...then hire ONE person for each farm." And it would be great if the devs could make it that you can only hire say Max of 2 people for one farm.

[Lady_Catalina]

Originally Posted by Vivienne57

If you had read the post properly.....it was said that some farmers lie that they have tools and you only find out when they start working your farms that they haven't got any. Also why shouldn't we hire multiple farmers, it's our choice. When you have 15 farms it's a lot of work for 1 person and maybe that's why they don't finish. I have hired multiple farmers and have never had a problem

I think that was exactly my point.
And just for comment; I try not to hire a single person for more than 4-5 farms.

[pythonis]

a lot of people are mistaken about what "tools" are. They buy the blue coin tools and think they have tools. Technically they do but it isnt the kind we are talking about.

[KnightRider]

Originally Posted by pythonis

a lot of people are mistaken about what "tools" are. They buy the blue coin tools and think they have tools. Technically they do but it isnt the kind we are talking about.

That's right, some people think when they buy the coin tools they can use them when they go to another farm, then they find out they can't, it is only the FC tools that can be used. The coin tools can only be used on their own farms.

[Danielle's Farms]

I didnt read all 100++ pages of this topic but I'll post my thoughts on some particular topics I remember.

When I first started the game yearsss ago..you could only have 1 farm. There was no tools, no facilities and not a whole lot of crops to choose from to plant. i played for a good long time until I stopped. I go on spurts. When i left, they had added where you could have up to 4 farms, and facilities were starting to come out. I stopped playing for at least a a year and a half to 2 years and I just started back last week and Im hooked again, and the game has really exploded since I last left.

I can totally understand the frustration of those who do not have the tools and cant afford to buy them. In a way, I do think its a little unfair execially when trying to find someone to hire you, and theres basically no point in staying if they hire someone else who has the tools because by the time you finish one row of crops or anything, everything else is gone. Last week when I started back and found a job, someone else came along who obviously had the tools and I didnt get hardly anything. At this time, I didnt even know you could use tools on other peoples farms. I bought a couple of tools with coins, only to find out you HAVE to buy the tools with farm cash in order to be able to use the tools on other farms. This was a little frustrating, but I broke down and bought enough cash to get me one of each tool I needed on the farm. It is very nice, now my biggest problem is with running out of fuel! Since I dont have a whole to many neighbors and my XP is only 80 right now, and the factory only produces so fast, I dont get a whole lot at once, and when you find a lot of jobs, it goes quick. I wish you could fill up more than once a day! Thats the really frustrating part.

I also hate beggers when going to the market to hire. I always hire from the market. The neighbors I have arnt active in the game anymore and its just quicker to go to the market. I've been pretty lucky, havnt had a rude person yet, though not to many people say thank you after they are done. But I'm not all that worried about it.

When im in the market to find a job, I usually stand towards the front away from others so whoever can click on me easily, and Ill say every few moments "hire me please!" or "any job welcome!" Stuff like that. i dont say it over and over and over, I usually wait a few moments than say it again. I know when Im hiring, I look for someone who says hire me or etc. but not begging. I dont click on anyone who is just standing there saying nothing, because I dont know whether they are there to hire someone, sell something or if they are even by the computer at all. So I dont mind people saying hire me every few moments because it makes it easiar on me when Im there to hire a person. Now I wont hire someone who is being obnoxious, flooding the chat and begging for a job. I will just sit and wait longer until another person comes along.

I usually only hire one person to do whatever i need to be done at my farm. I follow them back just to make sure they got there. Even if I see they have no tools and doing things one by one. I just leave them alone. I know when I didnt have no tools and landed a job with a lot of stuff to do. I was super excited, and when I saw no one else was hired, I was even more excited! lol So I try to do the same for others. I usually dont stay on my farm and hover over them, but theres plenty of times Im on the farm with the hired person, but Im doing other stuff on the computer. So even if the avator is on the farm, it doesnt always mean the person is hovering over every move you make. It doesnt bother me when im on the job for the farm owner to be there. I just go along my work. I'll talk to them if they say something, but its hard to chat and work at the same time. I always send a message when Im done though thanking them for the job.

If im only hired to harvest, but not plowing, or I see something else that needs to be done. If the farm owner is there, after I finish i'll thank them for the job and ask if they need me to do anything else. Most of the time, they hire me to do the rest. If not I just thank them and leave. Im not going to sit and beg, they are other jobs out there.

I also tend to give people the benefit of the doubt on the game. If I hire someone and they start a job, and I come back later to find it only half done and they are gone, I'll just go hire someone else. You never know what happened to the person on the other end. I've had plenty of times Ive accidently clicked them wrong button and it left the farm, I had no way to get back to the farm, so whoever hired me, might have thought I just left and didnt want the job or something. Theres been times my computers booted me off as well. So just remember, before getting all ****** and saying they are a horrible worker, people have lives. they may have had to go for some reason, or the computer may have just acted up. You never know. I know it really bugs me when that does happen though, the other day I landed a huge solo job, with a lot of crops and everything, ran out of fuel and when I went to fill up again, I accidently hit the Realor's Office instead of the fuel station. So I lost that job which sucked! And I had no way to get back to the farm because I didnt even get chance to see the farmers name.

As for crop hoggers and stuff. This kind of goes with what I said about the tools earlier. I can understand other people's frustrations, but im one know, I bought the tools with my money. I'm going to use them.(as long as I have fuel lol) I work fast and ill take whatevers there. Now if I see someone else was also hired Im not going to be all like "Go somewhere else! These crops are mine!" Thats just plain rude. Its a GAME. I'll just take whatever I get and move on, whoevers faster, gets what they get.

hmmm...i think I covered all the things I wanted to say as I was reading through the comments on this thread. Whoever read all this, kudos to you!

[KnightRider]

When I hire at the marketplace, which is not very often. Like Danielle's Farms said, I will not hire the people that flood the chat or type "hire me" one letter per line. I have overlapping farms and I say "Looking for one person to harvest and plow overlapping field", sometimes I put in large or small depending on which farm it is. I don't mind hiring someone with no tools, been there before. I will follow them back to the farm and ask them "Can you handle the farm yourself or would you like help", if they say they can handle it I will let them do it all, I am usually not in any hurry for them to finish, I have other stuff I can do. Most of the time it is just easier if I do my own farms since I have the 5x5 h/p/s.

[Vivienne57]

Originally Posted by Danielle's Farms

I didnt read all 100++ pages of this topic but I'll post my thoughts on some particular topics I remember.

When I first started the game yearsss ago..you could only have 1 farm. There was no tools, no facilities and not a whole lot of crops to choose from to plant. i played for a good long time until I stopped. I go on spurts. When i left, they had added where you could have up to 4 farms, and facilities were starting to come out. I stopped playing for at least a a year and a half to 2 years and I just started back last week and Im hooked again, and the game has really exploded since I last left.

I can totally understand the frustration of those who do not have the tools and cant afford to buy them. In a way, I do think its a little unfair execially when trying to find someone to hire you, and theres basically no point in staying if they hire someone else who has the tools because by the time you finish one row of crops or anything, everything else is gone. Last week when I started back and found a job, someone else came along who obviously had the tools and I didnt get hardly anything. At this time, I didnt even know you could use tools on other peoples farms. I bought a couple of tools with coins, only to find out you HAVE to buy the tools with farm cash in order to be able to use the tools on other farms. This was a little frustrating, but I broke down and bought enough cash to get me one of each tool I needed on the farm. It is very nice, now my biggest problem is with running out of fuel! Since I dont have a whole to many neighbors and my XP is only 80 right now, and the factory only produces so fast, I dont get a whole lot at once, and when you find a lot of jobs, it goes quick. I wish you could fill up more than once a day! Thats the really frustrating part.

I also hate beggers when going to the market to hire. I always hire from the market. The neighbors I have arnt active in the game anymore and its just quicker to go to the market. I've been pretty lucky, havnt had a rude person yet, though not to many people say thank you after they are done. But I'm not all that worried about it.

When im in the market to find a job, I usually stand towards the front away from others so whoever can click on me easily, and Ill say every few moments "hire me please!" or "any job welcome!" Stuff like that. i dont say it over and over and over, I usually wait a few moments than say it again. I know when Im hiring, I look for someone who says hire me or etc. but not begging. I dont click on anyone who is just standing there saying nothing, because I dont know whether they are there to hire someone, sell something or if they are even by the computer at all. So I dont mind people saying hire me every few moments because it makes it easiar on me when Im there to hire a person. Now I wont hire someone who is being obnoxious, flooding the chat and begging for a job. I will just sit and wait longer until another person comes along.

I usually only hire one person to do whatever i need to be done at my farm. I follow them back just to make sure they got there. Even if I see they have no tools and doing things one by one. I just leave them alone. I know when I didnt have no tools and landed a job with a lot of stuff to do. I was super excited, and when I saw no one else was hired, I was even more excited! lol So I try to do the same for others. I usually dont stay on my farm and hover over them, but theres plenty of times Im on the farm with the hired person, but Im doing other stuff on the computer. So even if the avator is on the farm, it doesnt always mean the person is hovering over every move you make. It doesnt bother me when im on the job for the farm owner to be there. I just go along my work. I'll talk to them if they say something, but its hard to chat and work at the same time. I always send a message when Im done though thanking them for the job.

If im only hired to harvest, but not plowing, or I see something else that needs to be done. If the farm owner is there, after I finish i'll thank them for the job and ask if they need me to do anything else. Most of the time, they hire me to do the rest. If not I just thank them and leave. Im not going to sit and beg, they are other jobs out there.

I also tend to give people the benefit of the doubt on the game. If I hire someone and they start a job, and I come back later to find it only half done and they are gone, I'll just go hire someone else. You never know what happened to the person on the other end. I've had plenty of times Ive accidently clicked them wrong button and it left the farm, I had no way to get back to the farm, so whoever hired me, might have thought I just left and didnt want the job or something. Theres been times my computers booted me off as well. So just remember, before getting all ****** and saying they are a horrible worker, people have lives. they may have had to go for some reason, or the computer may have just acted up. You never know. I know it really bugs me when that does happen though, the other day I landed a huge solo job, with a lot of crops and everything, ran out of fuel and when I went to fill up again, I accidently hit the Realor's Office instead of the fuel station. So I lost that job which sucked! And I had no way to get back to the farm because I didnt even get chance to see the farmers name.

As for crop hoggers and stuff. This kind of goes with what I said about the tools earlier. I can understand other people's frustrations, but im one know, I bought the tools with my money. I'm going to use them.(as long as I have fuel lol) I work fast and ill take whatevers there. Now if I see someone else was also hired Im not going to be all like "Go somewhere else! These crops are mine!" Thats just plain rude. Its a GAME. I'll just take whatever I get and move on, whoevers faster, gets what they get.

hmmm...i think I covered all the things I wanted to say as I was reading through the comments on this thread. Whoever read all this, kudos to you!

You don't need to beg at the market or in fact say anything at all if you use the right colours....red means you are wanting work and pink means you are hiring. Can't remember the others but these two colours are the most important. Saying Hire me' or 'available to work' even a few times to me is begging )

[pythonis]

Originally Posted by Vivienne57

Saying Hire me' or 'available to work' even a few times to me is begging )

same here......