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Re: [BY DESIGN] [GTW] Retail Employees Not Retaining Assigned Task

The next day from the save I sent you is the day I was referring to. Can we have the employees come in shifts? I didn't know that. Is it normal to have them lose their assigned task often? In my restaurant the employees are more reliable, especially after they have raised their skills (except that waiters leave for a run (?!). I can deal with training or waiting for their skills to increase, but at least in the restaurant I know I have a chef, a host and a waiter, and none of them is suddenly going to stop doing any waiting or cooking or hosting. If they are at work they are there to work. I much prefer not having that particular aspect unpredictable (them keeping an assigned job). Maybe they can change it so I can hire an employee specifically to clean or a salesman, etc.?

Anyway, if the dropping the assigned task is planned by EA, maybe that part is not a bug... unless mine are dropping their task more often than EA planned it.

8 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
By shift I mean working for a day, then the next day would be a new shift. I do think they should retain their tasks but it seems it can happen that you need to re-assign.

Trying to find out more.
SheriGR
Hero
7 years ago
Yes, I believe the save I sent you they had just finished their day of having the store open. In that game I played then the night of sleep/recovery at their home then a couple of them went to the store mentioned and opened it the next morning, and that is the employee shift I was referring to. I agree, I think if the employees will retain their task shift to shift that would be nice, but if they won't retain it throughout the current shift I think I won't be using them anymore. So I am grateful to find out if this is a bug or intended. Thank you!
SimGuruNick
EA Staff (Retired)
7 years ago
@SheriGR @crinrict This entire issue sounds by design. The role that employees are assigned to is not saved day-to-day. When they first arrive to work they're given a random assignment, which the player is free to change. If the employee starts slacking, you can stop that by assigning them a work assignment again, or by scolding them for slacking. If you scold them, they'll be assigned a random work assignment again (it does not save the assignment they previously had).
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Thank you Nick.

Going to mark this as By Design.
SheriGR
Hero
7 years ago
That sounds like what I have noticed, but the issue that I was referring to was a day when I noticed two to three times each that the employees were slacking (they had been working much better on other shifts), and they had no assigned task though I had given them one when I would check them. I was having the game checked for a 'frozen items' issue, so I thought perhaps this could be checked on since I had shared the game. Anyway, not a huge deal. If they are going to be this poor at doing their tasks I will probably fire them all and just use my sims. I may try a few more shifts and see if it improves. Thank you. Sorry I bothered you with a non-issue!
SheriGR
Hero
7 years ago
@crinrict ... Thank you for all of your help and time. Sorry to bug you with something that was a non-issue.
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
That's fine. No need for apologies. Sometimes it's unsure if something is a bug or by design and it's good to find out.

And if someone is as courteous and nice about everything like you are, it's never a problem :D No need for apologies.
SparkStar
3 years ago
Can you help me? I had just assign a task for my employee and right after it got resetted again and the employee is doing nothing. I thought they were slacking but the option is off and said that employee has not been slacking. I did the interaction multiple times but none of it got through, is this a bug?