No Lame Hires
skandelouslala:
Great. I'm sick of seeing sims who at the top of their career and their stupid buddy wants to hire them to work at their rinky dink car dealership.
sanmonroe:
I just messed with joy.
Motoki:
Okay, I've found several quirks/issues/annoyances with using this:
Malcom Landgraab is still showing up on my list of hireables even though his household is worth about 200k and he owns two businesses because technically he is not employed.
If you sell or permanently close down a business without first firing or laying off your employees, the employees keep their jobs anyway but you then can't fire them. This apparently is a Maxis feature so that playables who work for other playables don't lose their job if you decide to up and sell the business they work for. Without this hack, this isn't a big deal because you can still just steal them away from their non-existant business. With this hack, such townies become permanently unemployable and you are not able to ever hire them again unless you move them in and have them quit their jobs. "Employee" doesn't really have a job level per say, but I have several in my game that used to work for me and I closed the business down and they are no longer hireable because the game still sees them as employed in the 'employee' career track and this hack won't let me re-hire them because of that.
Downtownies will only show up on the list of hireables if you call or go online from downtown regardless of where your actual store is located. So I have a sim who lives downtown but has his store in Bluewater Village. If I have him call to hire from home, downtownies come up on the list. If I have him do it from the store, they don't.
This Downtownie specific thing applies to shoppers too. If your shop is locate downtown they will show up, if not they won't.
Kitiara:
Pescado is a god.
* Kitiara bows low in deference.
Lion:
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 March 11, 07:58:26
Okay, I've found several quirks/issues/annoyances with using this:
Malcom Landgraab is still showing up on my list of hireables even though his household is worth about 200k and he owns two businesses because technically he is not employed.
I don't mind if owners are in the hiring pool, because I actually want my owners to work in another business, because when I play the other business, they will be there to gain badgages without costing any time in their life. In fact, they rarely gain badgages in their own business because I need them to run around managing employees.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 March 11, 07:58:26
If you sell or permanently close down a business without first firing or laying off your employees, the employees keep their jobs anyway but you then can't fire them. This apparently is a Maxis feature so that playables who work for other playables don't lose their job if you decide to up and sell the business they work for. Without this hack, this isn't a big deal because you can still just steal them away from their non-existant business. With this hack, such townies become permanently unemployable and you are not able to ever hire them again unless you move them in and have them quit their jobs. "Employee" doesn't really have a job level per say, but I have several in my game that used to work for me and I closed the business down and they are no longer hireable because the game still sees them as employed in the 'employee' career track and this hack won't let me re-hire them because of that.
I haven't installed this hack yet (but very excited to try it out). It should be very useful. But since you are saying that employees are kept after the business is sold, then what will happen if the business is bulldozed without the owner selling the business from home first? Also I want to ask if it is possible to transfer workers from one business to another that are both owned by one sim? So far I couldn't find a way to do it.
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 March 11, 07:58:26
Downtownies will only show up on the list of hireables if you call or go online from downtown regardless of where your actual store is located. So I have a sim who lives downtown but has his store in Bluewater Village. If I have him call to hire from home, downtownies come up on the list. If I have him do it from the store, they don't.
This Downtownie specific thing applies to shoppers too. If your shop is locate downtown they will show up, if not they won't.
I'm not sure about the first one. I'm playing the MATYvill the painful version from simmiecal, and she told me that Shirley Baker lives in downtown, although I couldn't find her there, but I hired her from a store in Bluewater villlage. For the second one, I definitely have downtownies, AND main hood residents visit my stores in Bluewater village.
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