No, it didn't work either. Could it be because he is an alien?
@CGrant56 No, I didn't save the game, while he was still at work. I went to play in his family instead, and he wouldn't go home early either. I let the wife call him on the phone and invite him to another location, and then go home. I had to let him drop his job and start all over. My scientist is an alien, could that be the problem? I can let him work his normal shift, and then he goes home but not if I let him work late, and if I finally get him home, he is still "at work", and won't leave for work the next day.
@Compulsivian As far as I know, it is NOT an issue in the doctor career but only with the scientist.
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@simsister I don't think that being an alien has anything to do with this particular issue. I might be wrong though so it can't be ruled out. I just doubt it. The issue you are having is happening for others too, both in the GTW careers and in normal careers so the main issue causing it is probably something they all have in common rather than specific to GTW and/or working overtime. I have had it happen with multiple sims in various careers and there seems to be no rhyme nor reason for which ones it hits.
So from what you describe, I get the idea that the sim is home now but the portrait is greyed out and you can't access his inventory. And he won't go to work anymore so the game, for whatever reason, seems to think he is still at work. When you say you let him drop his job and start over, I take that to mean that you had the sim quit the scientist career and then join it again and the sim's portrait is still greyed out after working overtime again. Is that correct?
You could also try to travel with another sim in the household and see if you can then switch to the sim in the scientist career to see if he is still at home or at the lab. If he is at the lab then you might be able to quit early to see if he goes home and if he does, that should clear the portrait.
Another thing you can try is have hm quit again and go into a non GTW career to see if that will work to clear the portrait and then go back to the scientist career.
If you haven't done it, I also suggest you repair the game. And delete the localthumbcache.package file too. Deleting that file seems to fix a lot of things. The game will generate a new one the next time you start so don't worry about deleting it. All you'll notice is that it takes a little longer to generate the sim thumbnail portraits.
Hope this helps.
