[ARCHIVED] Maid caught in a loop cleaning appliances (Neat Trait)

My apologies. That is what I thought I did but I did not realize the list appearing in the screen was appearing from the bottom up, requiring me to toggle to the top.  The BASE is 1.39.7.2300 (64bit). I have corrected that info in the Report. By the way since my original post, I tried with a variety of grills on different lots, and it’s happening everywhere with all of them. 

I’m sorry, I’m not technically adept enough to add the video. But as best I can describe, if there are dirty dishes in the kitchen which sit between the front door and the backyard grill, the maid will clean those first. Then move to the grill. But then the maid gets stuck and won’t ever go upstairs to mop for example or scrub toilets.  This is a new issue, just within the last week I think. I am playing the same households and lots for awhile now and did not have this glitch before. 

Found following snippet in grill_Clean section test_autonomous:

<L>
<V t="sim_info">
<U n="sim_info">
<V n="ages" t="specified" />
<V n="npc" t="enabled">
<T n="enabled">True</T>
</V>
</U>
</V>
</L>

unlike every other test, this one doesn't appear in stove_Clean (which seems to be unaffected)

That doesn’t mean anything to me but I’m just a unsophisticated user; hopefully that’s a lead for someone who can explore a fix? I’m glad it looks like an identifiable anomaly. 

It is most definitely happening in multiple households, although I have temporarily removed the grills to prevent the glitch.  I will go back to an older save and see if it happens there too, and will post the results. Thanks for the suggestion 

So I did also try an old save from January at your suggestion, let the lot get filthy over the weekend, and when the maid came on Monday he cleaned all of the inside stuff downstairs first, then went outside and got stuck at the grill opening-cleaning-closing-repeat for at least 1 1/2 sim hours, until I gave up and fired him.