Co-workers who have the same job are not at the lot

I appointed members of my family and several sims from another family as detectives, and for some reason when I go to work with main sim, none of them are at the lot. If I'm not mistaken, then all Sims with a similar job used to come to the precinct. how can I get them all to gather at work?

gameplay issue

simsplayer818
2 years ago
@MiruRK300 you can't take members of the same household to a Get to Work job unfortunately. You can only follow one Sim at a time on a work day.
As for which colleagues are there each day, that's always been random for me over the years. I've created quite a few Police, Doctors and Scientists and there's usually only 1 or 2 of them on the premises from my previous households when my current Sim is there. I've got one police officer who I made quite senior and she's hardly ever there. I always want them to befriend each other at work but because of this they don't always meet. But if they are introduced in another setting they still have the option to Discuss Work. I hoped to replace all of the GTW staff with my own Sims but workplaces are still staffed mostly by NPCs.
I'm on console so I don't know if there are mods for this on PC.

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simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago
@MiruRK300 you can't take members of the same household to a Get to Work job unfortunately. You can only follow one Sim at a time on a work day.
As for which colleagues are there each day, that's always been random for me over the years. I've created quite a few Police, Doctors and Scientists and there's usually only 1 or 2 of them on the premises from my previous households when my current Sim is there. I've got one police officer who I made quite senior and she's hardly ever there. I always want them to befriend each other at work but because of this they don't always meet. But if they are introduced in another setting they still have the option to Discuss Work. I hoped to replace all of the GTW staff with my own Sims but workplaces are still staffed mostly by NPCs.
I'm on console so I don't know if there are mods for this on PC.
PipMenace
Hero
2 years ago
@MiruRK300 I think it’s actually specifically pulling from unplayed Sims to fill out coworkers. I have occasionally had a Sim marry a coworker - but as soon as the coworker moves in they no longer show up as a coworker - whichever you go to work with, the other won’t be there. I wish it were different, but for storytelling I usually just say they transferred departments to avoid conflict of interest 🤷🏼‍♀️
CGrant56
Hero+
2 years ago
@MiruRK300

The best way to get more of your sims in the GTW careers to show up on the work lot is to simply have more of them in those careers. Depending on the career, the number varies but at a certain point you will notice that more of them are showing up than NPCs. I see a lot of my sims who have maxed the careers when I send a new sim to work in the in the doctor and scientist careers. The game will sort of demote them though for the day, so my sim is the only one at that career level. The detective career doesn't do that from what I can tell. But I do see other played sims there that are at a career level other than the one I'm playing. Once you get to the same career level as another played sim, you don't see them at work again until you get promoted out of that level. For instance, one of my other sims will be the Chief until my sim reaches level 10 and you never see them at work again when you play the sim.

Hope this helps.