@simsister, You do not have any script Mods, but do you have any kind of Mods or CC? 🤔 Even if script Mods are more likely to cause problems, other Mods and even CC can also cause problems in the game when they are outdated. Mods and CC can become outdated anytime EA releases a patch to the game, like we just had recently.
If you use any Mods or CC, please do the following:
1) Move the Mods Folder to your desktop
2) Delete localthumbcache.package file in the game folder.
3) Fix you game in Origin by logging in and go to Library, then right-click on The Sims 4 and choose the "Repair Game" option from the list. Wait until Origin finishes repairing all your packs and not just the base game.
4) Now, when you turn on your game again, it will create a new mods folder that will be empty. Check to see if your game is now working without mods/CC.
5) Now you can try adding back items from your Mods folder one at a time checking your game each time to see which item is causing your game to not work properly. If you have a lot of items, you can try the 50/50 Method.
This will either show which Mod/CC item is causing the problems or it will rule them out as the cause. If one of your Mods/CC is found to be the cause of your problem, you will need to stop using it and replace it with an updated version, if there is one. It should be updated after the most recent patch to the game. 🙂
If this doesn't' work or if you don't use any Mods/CC then your problem could be caused by something else, but we need to rule out any Mod/CC conflict first.
Please update us on if this works or not! 😇
@simsister I've run into this a couple of times. So, what I assume is happening is the game is not automatically sending the sim home whenever the extra time you added to the end of the shift expires. Is that correct? The game seems to think that the work time has not expired for some reason. Happens in other GTW careers too once in a while. Also occasionally happens with the regular careers under certain circumstances (save, exit and rerestart).
Did you save and exit the game while the sim was at the lab before his shift ended? This is when it has happened to me. When I next loaded the game, the sim would get stuck at work at the end of the shift. Doesn't seem to happen if you save and exit to the Main Menu and then reload without shutting the game down completely.
Have you tried sending the sim home by right clicking on his portrait at the bottom? You might have to leave work early in that case.
If the sim is in a household with more than one sim, have you tried changing which sim you are playing via the option on the other sims portrait? If you can change sims and get to the home lot, you can call him home but you usually have to use the leave work early option. If that doesn't work, you can have the 2nd sim travel to another location and try again from there too.
If you have a wormhole generator on the lab lot, have you tried using it to go to Sixam and then tried to go home from there? Sometimes all that does is send you back to the lab when you try to leave Sixam via the wormhole generator there, but sometimes it does send you home. If you've installed the wormhole generator on the spaceship at the lab lot, you can do it that way too and as far as I can tell, that way seems a bit more reliable since the wormhole generator at Sixam always sends you home, and not back to the lab when you go there by spaceship.
