Discussions about Hiring and Hiring Practices

[MeganGG]

I've been having such a hard time trying to hire people lately. I go to the marketplace and it's all people saying they need workers, hardly anyone says they will work even if you say you have a great crop for them with plow after. Where are they all? It took me forever and a couple different MPs to find someone who would do it this morning.

[Lupi]

Originally Posted by MeganGG

I've been having such a hard time trying to hire people lately. I go to the marketplace and it's all people saying they need workers, hardly anyone says they will work even if you say you have a great crop for them with plow after. Where are they all? It took me forever and a couple different MPs to find someone who would do it this morning.

I've been wondering if it was just me who'd been having trouble hiring people. No one seems to want to work anymore, but if that's the case what are they all doing in the MP? This morning the MP was packed, yet no one responded to my requests for harvesters. I ended up doing four farms myself.

I have people on my buddy list, but I find that our online times don't match up.

[brionie]

Originally Posted by Lupi

I've been wondering if it was just me who'd been having trouble hiring people. No one seems to want to work anymore, but if that's the case what are they all doing in the MP? This morning the MP was packed, yet no one responded to my requests for harvesters. I ended up doing four farms myself.
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Selling stuff?

[Lupi]

Originally Posted by brionie

Selling stuff?

Perhaps, but they're taking their sweet time about it if that's what they're doing. Most of them are talking amongst themselves, and just ignoring everyone else. In any case, when I go into the MP to sell stuff, I either hide behind one of the stalls, or I go to a far corner of the screen, so that I do not give the impression that I am there for work. Perhaps I am just more thoughtful and considerate than others.

The hiring problems are still happening. I've just ploughed two of my four 24x24 farms because the two people I hired managed to plow 4 and 0 fields respectively.

What angered me the most however, was a player I hired to harvest my purple grapes. She did half and then announced that it didn't pay enough, so it wasn't worth her while to do any more. She then "lol'd" and typed a smiley face (as if that makes it ok) and left. I went back to the MP and there she was asking for more work, so I told the MP that she wasn't available for low paying work and "ignored" her.

I think I'll just do my own harvesting and ploughing from now on, unless I see a "buddy" online at the same time. I've had enough of the idiots from the MP. Over the last two days, I have hired three people who blatantly ignored all my requests to hide the trees and carried on merrily harvesting around them. I accept that some players may not know about "hiding", but when a request is made of you, and you don't know what is being requested, ask the person what they mean. It's not difficult.

[wsmith101]

Originally Posted by Lupi

. I accept that some players may not know about "hiding", but when a request is made of you, and you don't know what is being requested, ask the person what they mean. It's not difficult.

Oh I agree!! if you don't know how to hide something, let me know!! it isn't that stinking difficult! I had one person who finally admitted they were new, and didn't know how to. I was wishing for a fire button a the time.

[MaryLouW]

One thing to keep in mind when you see that a person is pretty slow. They may be new users. I hired one yesterday that was incredibly slow. I checked her level - she was level 9. So, I just let her go and did something else. If she had been a level 80, I would have hired another person to help. I did ask her if she wanted help, she didn't.

I have learned NOT to say that I'll hire them to harvest, then plow. I only hire to harvest. If they are doing a pretty decent job, I ask them mid-way through if they want to plow. If they're doing a bad job, I am conveniently not at that site when they finish and stand there yelling "plow".

When I am at the MP, I make it very clear that I will harvest or plow crops, but I will not do trees, flowers, or fish. People sometimes ignore that and when they want to hire me to harvest and do trees, I decline and restate what I will-won't do. I wish more people would do this because you can't tell the hiring farmers from the ones looking for work and a lot of time is wasted trying to hire someone. Maybe they should split the room - hiring on one side and workers on the other!

[JustHikk]

Originally Posted by MaryLouW

Maybe they should split the room - hiring on one side and workers on the other!

I have always thought, and posted, that they needed to split the market place in half. One market to sell your goods (or let you sell it from your farm) and another for hiring. Then, only allow hiring from your farm or the hiring market (not the Inn, the Realtor or the selling Market). That would solve the issue of getting hire requests when you go to sell things.