[FIXED] Sims at work come home on loading screen

by akasunanokitten
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Sims keep coming home from work/school game loads

★ Apprentice

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Expansion packs, All games packs except Batuu, All stuff packs except My First Pet Stuff, Perfect Patio, Backyard. No kits.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Send sims to school/work, save/exit game,re open.
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims comes home from work/school(kids) immediately after loading into the game
What do you expect to see? Sims stay in work/school until the expected finish time
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Started happening after the patch for the High School pack.

When I exit my game and sims are at work/school, upon reloading into the save, they immediately come home, doesn't matter how  long they have left in the day. I don't have any teenagers, the school bug is only for kids so far.

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Re: Sims at work come home on load

★ Guide

@crinrict wrote:
@akasunanokittenCould you try a new save with no clubs at all and check if it happens there too ? (just for testing).

I tested in another save without clubs, issue is persisting. I also tested without mods, I think it might be related with this bug; I have NOT tested if it happens if someone travels off the lot.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-HSY-Sims-come-home-from-after-school-activity-when-on/td-...

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Re: Sims keep coming home from work/school game loads

★ Apprentice

I have this issue as well. Actually, whenever the game loads, the sims at work go back. It first happened to me when I used the "Change Sim" interaction in the mirror. When I went back from the CAS, the working sim was on the lot instead of working. Thinking it was a CAS issue, I left the lot and loaded it again. I usually save right after any sim goes to work/school, so when I loaded the lot again, I found the sim at home, after earning just 3 simoleons. I think I'll have to check the save history in order to bypass the issue. However, if I saved right after work as I usually do, I'll get the same problem even if using the backup savefiles Frown

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Sims return from school and work when loading lot

★★★ Novice

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get Famous, Discover University, Get to Work, Get Together, Island Living, Seasons, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Strangerville, Spa Day, Parenthood, Outdoor Retreat, Jungle Adventure, Dream Home Decorator, Dine Out, Bowling, Kids Stuff, Toddler, Vintage Glamour, and Laundry Day. 
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Save while sims are at work, and then load the game onto your lot.Or enter CAS through cheats/MCCC and then load your lot. 
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims return home even if workday/school day is not over. Even if I click on the pop-up to not skip school, the children/teenagers return home from school hours early.  
What do you expect to see? My sims to stay at work or at school when I load onto the lot
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. July 26th 2022 patch

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★ Guide

Unfortunately this is still happening as of the new patch. Frown

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Sims return early from work or school

★ Apprentice

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get to work, Get together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Cottage Living, High School Years, Dine Out, My Wedding Stories, Outdoor Retreat, Parenthood,Spa Day, Laundry Day Stuff, Spooky Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By going into CAS or leaving current lot
What happens when the bug occurs? A sim will leave for work or school and I will enter CAS or go to a different lot with a different sim. When i return back home the sim at work or school will come home.
What do you expect to see? I should be able to leave the lot or go into CAS without the sim coming back early from work.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. High School Years

I enter CAS or leave to go to another lot and when I return a Sim that was at work returns from work school, or an after school activity early.

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Re: [OPEN] Sims at work come home on load

★★ Apprentice

Same issue. Specifically - any time a sim is away from the lot and I pass through a loading screen and go home (including but not limited to entering/exiting CAS and loading back into the game) they will immediately return back home. This is particularly an issue with my save, as the mom is in the Athlete career (level 7) and works starting at 2PM. When the teens are at school and come home at 3, she has only been gone an hour and is sent right back with pay to reflect it (so hardly anything).

I did test this without mods as well and it still happens. I've seen similar threads in AHQ multiple times over the years, and I believe this is a similarly recurring issue.

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Sims leaving work after loading screen

★ Novice

When my highschool sim travels home from highschool (or any other loading screen) other Sims in my household leave work early.

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★★★★★ Apprentice

I have this SAME exact issue. When it first occurred I ignored it, but this time my sim has 3 hours of work because of it and now I'm just irritated. 

 

Specifically, I play a household with several sims where only one leaves to work. I don't have the high school EP and I don't utilize the club-system from GTW so no clubs. My sim leaves from home to go to work alone in her active doctor career while everyone else stays at home. When I save and leave the game and come back to the game the next day and load the save I find that she has returned from work prematurely with the normal notification of her return as if she had worked her full hours (even though she clearly didn't). What's even more irritating is because of this she doesn't get her full day's pay, and there's no way to send her back to work so that she can get the remainder of the day's pay. 

 

I recall experiencing a bug that was the same or very similar to this years ago and thankfully they fixed it, but its aggravating to see that it has returned with another new patch and that I have to deal with it AGAIN. 

 

And yes, as usual I tested without mods and the issue still persists. 

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Sims leave work (early) after a loading screen (travelling, cas, etc.)

★★★★★ Newbie

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.90.375.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? In a family of multiple sims, one goes to work, you enter CAS (plan an outfit or anything that makes you go through a loading screen) and once you come back to Live Mode your Sim has left work in the middle of their work day.
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims leave work in the middle of work day and lose exp.
What do you expect to see? My sims completing their workday without leaving early/losing exp.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. HSY update

 

 

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