Chapter 09 - Hiring

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Sending a message to a worker after hiring.

To be able to send a message to a worker that is on one of your farms you will need to have at least 4 farms so you can use Show Work Info and then Show User Info.

When on your own farms you can click on the Farm Grid top LEFT of your farm, then click on SHOW NAMES



When the Go to Farm window opens, bottom right of that window click on Show User Info




When at market or on someone else's farms, you can also access your the Show Work Info for YOUR farms by clicking on the Home icon bottom right of your screen to see your farm grid.
Then click on SHOW FARMS

This picture is from the Job Marketplace, when you are on another farmers farms there are no extra round buttons above the home icon.



When the Go to Farm window opens, bottom right of that window click on Show User Info



Example of Workers and Visitors:

Blue dot is an Employee on farm 4 who is working and connected (online).

Pale Blue dot is a Employee on farm 7 who is working but disconnected (offline).

Orange dot. There is a Employee on farm 15 connected but is Idle. They may have only just arrived so have not started working yet.

Gray dot is a Non-Employee on farm 21 connected (online). They are visiting.


There is an envelope top right of the Go To Farms window you can click on to send a message.



If there are no farmers on your farms when you click on that envelope you will see a Brief notification that tells you that:




To SEE where farmers are on your farms:

Click on the Envelope top right of that window and you will then see the Employee and Visitors window which has 3 sections.

Employees Working or Connected, Employees Done Working and Non-Employees.

There will be a red number on each section that has an employee or a visitor on your farm.


To view Employees Working or Connected, if the background of the name is brown click on it to change it to orange to view that section.

This example shows Angel is Idle and is not a Neighbour or Buddy to the farmer as both of the blue and green silhouettes are NOT dimmed out.

They have been hired but have only just arrived on a farm so they have not started working yet.

As they start working and move farm to farm the orange circle changes to blue if they are still online and the name of the farm they are on changes as they go to different farms

A dimmed blue or green silhouette means that they ARE your Neighbour or Buddy.

If BOTH blue or green silhouettes are not dimmed then they are not on your Neighbour or Buddy list.



If you want to send them a Neighbour request you can click on the Blue one to send it to them.
If you want to send them a Buddy request you can click on the Green one to send a Request to them.




To view Employees Done Working, if the background of the name is brown click on it to change it to orange to view that section.

This example shows Angel has finished working and is not a Neighbour or Buddy to the farmer as both of the blue and green silhouettes are NOT dimmed out.

To view Non-Employees, if the background of the name is brown click on it to change it to orange to view that section.

This example shows DUDZ on farm 21 and is a Neighbour but not a Buddy. The blue silhouette is dimmed the green silhouettes is NOT dimmed out.

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To send a farmer a message to their Inbox:

Click on the envelope to the far right of the workers name and a message box will open that you can type in using your keyboard.





When you have finished typing your message, click on the green Send button to send it, or click on the red X to cancel.

They will be able to see it in their in game messages, the envelope at the top of the game screen.

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How to know when a message is from an Employer or Employee:

• There are Red and Pink Indicators when an Employer or an Employee sends a message.
  IF these indicators do not show up immediately OR the message envelope in the at the top of your game screen has not changed colour it is can be due to one or both of your being offline or being idle in game or your worker has already left or too much time has passed since the message was originally sent.
  
  
• You could also see these indicators for unread employer/employee messages if you reloaded the game not long after the messages were sent.
  
  
• The Red and Pink Indicators are removed when you have been inactive in the game for around 3 hours.
  
  
• PLEASE NOTE that the number counter on the envelope still ONLY reflects the amount of unread messages that you have. You could also have messages from other farmers, your Employer or your Employee.
  
  
• Super Neighbours connections also count as Employees/Employers when permissions granted for permanent hire.

Messages and notifications from an Employee are Red:

If you are both of you are online in the game and actively working OR your worker is online and still on your farm at the time the message is sent, you will see a Red message envelope and a Red notification on the game screen when your Employee sends you an in game message.

Example of the Red indicators:



When you open an Employees message, you will see an indicator << employee >> and the text in their message is also red. Examples:






Messages and notifications from your Employer are Pink:

If you are both of you are online in the game and you as the employee, are still on their farm you will see a Pink message envelope and a Pink notification on the game screen when your Employer sends you an in game message.

Examples of the Pink indicators:



When you open an Employers message, you will an indicator << employer >> and the text in their message will also be pink. Examples:

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To send a farmer an online Private Chat message:

The Private Chat icon icon will only show up IF you and the farmer are on the same farm and are both online long enough for you both to see the message in the chat box in your game bar. It allows you to send a private message in the chat box at the bottom of the game screen.



Clicking on the Private Chat Icon shows you a small message box that you can type in with your keyboard. When you have finished typing your message click on the green Send button to send it to the chat window at the bottom of your game screen.



When the employer sends a live chat message the worker will see a brief notification on the screen that is pink, the message above their Avatar AND also in the chat window at the bottom of the game screen.

The message shows as Private, the notification text is pink and has an indicator << employer >>




When the worker sends a live chat message to the employer, they may not use Private chat to reply so in this case the message will not have Private at the front of it the message.

You will see a similar thing but in this case the indicator << employee >>

In this example their message is not sent using Private Chat but the text and notification is red:

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