Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[alicepepper]

we hire - why can't we fire and get rid of the off the farm - like the apprentice - point a finger and have it say 'you're fired' and boot them back to the market place

[pamme]

Even though I've been playing a very long time, I do not go to the Market to get hired to farm for others. I took a VERY long break a couple of years back because of the way I was treated by someone who had hired me to farm for them.

I never had a problem "sharing" with others. There's plenty for everyone. I never begged for someone to hire me. I just said "hello" to everyone who entered the room. I tried to be polite. I expected the same from the people who hired me.

So, one day, I was hired to work a farm, and I was told that I was "stupid, slow, useless," and that I shouldn't bother working for others ever again.
I stopped playing FarmTown for two years. I have never farmed for anyone again. I'm so afraid that I will be ridiculed that I just do my own thing every day.

Please try to treat others as you would like to be treated. It's called The Golden Rule.

[Dutch85]

Originally Posted by pamme

Even though I've been playing a very long time, I do not go to the Market to get hired to farm for others. I took a VERY long break a couple of years back because of the way I was treated by someone who had hired me to farm for them.

I never had a problem "sharing" with others. There's plenty for everyone. I never begged for someone to hire me. I just said "hello" to everyone who entered the room. I tried to be polite. I expected the same from the people who hired me.

So, one day, I was hired to work a farm, and I was told that I was "stupid, slow, useless," and that I shouldn't bother working for others ever again.
I stopped playing FarmTown for two years. I have never farmed for anyone again. I'm so afraid that I will be ridiculed that I just do my own thing every day.



Please try to treat others as you would like to be treated. It's called The Golden Rule.

So sorry this happened to you. I know it's not easy to let the nasty stuff roll off your back. I go to the market to hire only. I did used to go there to get work when I needed to level up. I met some nice people and some not so nice. It took me a while to learn to just let it go when someone treated me badly. I'm glad you came back to the game and I hope you will stay and enjoy yourself.

[CynthiaSue]

I don't see any problem with people saying solo work only. I normally only hire one person per job, per farm at a time anyway. If they don't have tools, I will often ask them if they want help. As a rule they don't. If I come back later and the job isn't done, I hire another. It really is no big deal to me. I normally hire people with tools to do any short term crops anyway. I wish every one would say what they want to do in the market, so I can hire accordingly. I want to hire them for what they want to do. The only one I don't like that I can think of is people who say "acorn squash only" I don't normally hire them for anything. I figure why should some people get all the big cash crops.

[sread32]

I'm willing to chop any kind of trees if you want we can figure out how to schedule a meeting at the marketplace. I have over 250,000 fuel and need to get rid of it. Large or small farms is great. The more farms I do the better it is.

[dnana]

Originally Posted by sread32

I'm willing to chop any kind of trees if you want we can figure out how to schedule a meeting at the marketplace. I have over 250,000 fuel and need to get rid of it. Large or small farms is great. The more farms I do the better it is.

You guys have to be on the same server to do that, I think. Each server has it's own marketplace.

[Emily Murphy]

Suggestion: We should be able to "unhire" people when we see things like that happening.

[ady0914]

wow your markets must be way more populated than mine! i am lucky to find one worker, it would take all day to round up 3-4 workers,lol. i never hire more than one for my jobs and just hope they pay attention to the fact that more than one farm is checked ...and of course i never hire picky workers at all...if they arent willing to do every task that needs doing, then let them stand around doing nothing. i spent all my farm cash on things other than tools, like 2 fertilizer trucks, bait farm, sprinklers to make it more profitable for workers who hire out to me, i grouped all my trees and flowers for tool use just for them, and bought extra barns for all the animals so none run free, caz workers complained that it slowed down their game, deleted the stacked plowing caz they complained about that...in short am getting just a bit peeved that so many workers seem to have the notion that they control my farm...the latest complaint seems to be that i have trees over plowed ground or buildings on plowed ground...come on, thats what the wrench icon is for...hide them if they are in the way!
anyway what i would like to see is a notice on the hire invitation that says 7 farms or 14 farms (however many is checked off) so they dont do one farm and leave.

[rodneycs]

Originally Posted by ady0914

wow your markets must be way more populated than mine! i am lucky to find one worker, it would take all day to round up 3-4 workers,lol. i never hire more than one for my jobs and just hope they pay attention to the fact that more than one farm is checked ...and of course i never hire picky workers at all...if they arent willing to do every task that needs doing, then let them stand around doing nothing. i spent all my farm cash on things other than tools, like 2 fertilizer trucks, bait farm, sprinklers to make it more profitable for workers who hire out to me, i grouped all my trees and flowers for tool use just for them, and bought extra barns for all the animals so none run free, caz workers complained that it slowed down their game, deleted the stacked plowing caz they complained about that...in short am getting just a bit peeved that so many workers seem to have the notion that they control my farm...the latest complaint seems to be that i have trees over plowed ground or buildings on plowed ground...come on, thats what the wrench icon is for...hide them if they are in the way!
anyway what i would like to see is a notice on the hire invitation that says 7 farms or 14 farms (however many is checked off) so they dont do one farm and leave.

Mornings in Europe there is almost no one to hire in the market place and often you have to do things your self. Afternoons & evenings there are more but often you ghave to refresh or reload the page in order to find workers.

[CynthiaSue]

Originally Posted by ady0914

wow your markets must be way more populated than mine! i am lucky to find one worker, it would take all day to round up 3-4 workers,lol. i never hire more than one for my jobs and just hope they pay attention to the fact that more than one farm is checked ...and of course i never hire picky workers at all...if they arent willing to do every task that needs doing, then let them stand around doing nothing. i spent all my farm cash on things other than tools, like 2 fertilizer trucks, bait farm, sprinklers to make it more profitable for workers who hire out to me, i grouped all my trees and flowers for tool use just for them, and bought extra barns for all the animals so none run free, caz workers complained that it slowed down their game, deleted the stacked plowing caz they complained about that...in short am getting just a bit peeved that so many workers seem to have the notion that they control my farm...the latest complaint seems to be that i have trees over plowed ground or buildings on plowed ground...come on, thats what the wrench icon is for...hide them if they are in the way!
anyway what i would like to see is a notice on the hire invitation that says 7 farms or 14 farms (however many is checked off) so they dont do one farm and leave.

This is kind of hard of some players to have to be able to do it all. I myself have the shaker and chopper, so that is all I ever offer to do in the marketplace. I can't afford all the big tools and wouldn't have time to do all the harvesting and plowing people need done. Some people are just being nice taking the fishing and chopping jobs, etc... and leaving the harvesting and plowing to players who have the tools for such.

I can't even remember getting a complaint on my farms. I did ask someone once and they said that one of my farms was hard to load, and there was just trees and buildings on that farm, no stacking etc and it was 24 by 24 in size. I did move some buildings, but that was my choice.

I hire people for what they want to do. I tell them in advance, i.e, anyone want layered rice? I have had people without tools take jobs like that and finish the work. I have offered to shake trees only and had people hire me to harvest crops and shake on LOTS of farms. The worker is not always at fault. I do send them a message and let them know I do not have the time to harvest crops on multiple farms. I rarely work on peoples farms. You offer to do a job and they try to hire you for jobs you can't do cause you don't have the tools and you have no idea when you are taking the job if you are being hired to harvest a little, something I could handle, or harvest crops on all of their farms. I think anyone is worthy of a job even if they can't "do it all". Not all of us can put that kind of money into this game. Some of us opt to uses our farmcash for loaders or other items and some of us started the game way before facilities and tools and blew some of our valued farmcash on items we wish we hadn't and wouldn't of had we known what was coming.