Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[Charo]

Originally Posted by GrannyMo

Forgive me, folks, but exactly what is it you must impart so urgently to your workers after they arrive on your farm that their apparent lack of response to your chat messages ticks you off so? If you're hiring from the MP and have special requirements, that's the place to discuss them -- either with the entire room, or using the capability to exchange private messages with a potential worker.

What's so urgent? Perhaps the person has not hidden trees, and needs to be taught how. It's partially for my benefit, but mostly for theirs. I'm not there to lord over people or socialize too much, but if I see someone screwing up I'd like to be able to correct them for their own benefit.

[jeanieNGMsfarm]

Originally Posted by Charo

What's so urgent? Perhaps the person has not hidden trees, and needs to be taught how. It's partially for my benefit, but mostly for theirs. I'm not there to lord over people or socialize too much, but if I see someone screwing up I'd like to be able to correct them for their own benefit.

i agree in the trees need to be hidden part and they need to be taught. i allways ask for workers who can hide trees and like most of us know many are not truthful, i learned this most on my farm as my second farm the crops are all hidden. i have had worked go as far as yell at me with rude name twards me because there were no crops only trees. and ignore my telling them hey there are pineapples under them.. oh well their loss they got ignored and i got a new worker ...

if my worker wants to chat i will stick around i dont mind a good conversation if not they can finish their job and i will come to the forum checking back to see if they need to be hired to plow yet

[Wilde Lily]

For most of my time playing Farmtown (I'm Level 60 now) I've been able to hire my neighbors to work on my farm. For the past few moths though many of my neighbors have left the game, so it's harder to catch a neighbor online when I need them. Instead I've been hiring from the Marketplace.

I'm in no particular hurry so I hire two people for one of my farms with a large harvest, and one person for the other farm with a medium harvest. I include trees for whomever wants them, and plowing too if they like. I sometimes end up, though, with 3-4 people for the large crop since not everyone answers my request right away and I end up making another request unknowingly. I usually have no grumblings from anyod. But there are those who feel themselves somehow entitled, as though they are doing me a "favor" working for me. For instance today I went ahead and hired a farmer who advertised they's only harvest if they could plow, then she proceeded to tell me not to hire anyone else when two more farmers showed up to help. Then she just "stood there" and refused to answer my plow requests when I first hired another farmer to plow also. Needless to say I will never hire her again.