Is this supposed to happen?

[Blauwe vogel]

as title sais, i've had a lot of potential staff being excellent physio's, only to refuse offers because no matter what they must be a sports scientist. Posted example isn't that bad, but I had a guy with sport science 4 and physio 15 yet still he thought '' yeah f u bro I want a carreer change. 

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but it certainly isn't an anomaly since i've encountered it multiple times. 

[Blauwe vogel]

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[Prepper_Jack]

Yep. I suppose people sometimes want to do what they're not best at. Sometimes you can use this to your advantage. For example, I often pick up general managers with 20 negotiating skill who want to be physios, and no interest in being a general manager. Have one right now with 17 negotiating, 7 JPA, and 6 JPP, for $5.75k a year, full-time. A "real" GM with 10 stats in each stat would cost twice as much as the club is willing to pay, and probably wouldn't be as useful. Have also gotten some great budget Head of Youth Developments through such means, often by sifting through available scouts. They do have a tendency to leave once their contract is through, however, though not always.

[HUNT3R]

Your screenshots don't show whether (or how much) the staff member is interested in a Sports Scientist job. It only shows that they're very interested in being a Physio, so it seems strange that they wouldn't negotiate. 

[Blauwe vogel]

To clarify, both screenshots were taken when negotiations went bust, and what usually happens is : I open negotiations, see that they want to be a sportsscientist, I change that to Physio and suggest it, and then they lock out on sportsscientist. 

Besides, they have just as much interest ( if the green bubbles are indiciations of interest) in being a sports scientist as seen behind the pop up, but it is a bad screen shot on my part. 

 

[HUNT3R]

39 minutes ago, Blauwe vogel said:

in being a sports scientist as seen behind the pop up

Ah yes, I see. It is an indication of their interest in the role (hover your mouse and a tooltip will appear to indicate this) so something is off there.

[Blauwe vogel]

Should i redirect this to bugs instead then? 

[Parmie]

So essentially it's a bug, but not necessarily with your negotiations, your guy with 3 sports science and 15 physiotherapy refusing a physio role is more because he's currently a head of sport science from the look of it, that's the underlying reason, so the bug is more why the AI appoints someone that bad. The other example is more obtuse but I assume something similar where his self-perception is that he's a sports science.

I do find staff more willing to accept a 2nd choice role if you bump up the wages. 

[HUNT3R]

1 hour ago, Blauwe vogel said:

Should i redirect this to bugs instead then? 

Yeah, I would say so. Ideally, report it and upload a copy of your save so that the situation can be easily reproduced. SI can then look into it under the hood to see what's going on.

[du Garbandier]

You can lock the role you're offering before you make the offer. Don't know if that helps. Also, if you're going through Staff search, add 'preferred role' to the conditions.

[Blauwe vogel]

pisses them off.