Get To Work: Retail Store

"crocobaura;c-17426469" wrote:
I really wish that famous sims would not be included in the potential employee pool. I hired one and had to fire her because the place was swarming with paparazzi and no one was working because of this. I usually keep the stores open until the employees announce that it is time for them to leave and I think that depends on when the store was opened. I think you may be able to get an employee to come in later if you keep a hire slot open and hire an additional employee on the spot whenever you need him. I think it would be nice if the stores had separate open hours and working hours, so we could have say 6 hours for talking to customers and selling and 2 hours afterwards where employees could attend to restocking, cleaning and repairing.

I've never had a famous sim come to my shop or be hired by my shop. Never even met a famous sim, I guess my families just aren't there yet. lol

As for the hours, yeah, that's sort of what I had in mind. But allow me to elaborate...

Scenario
Hours of operations are from 9 am to 9 pm.

Employee1 9 am to 3 pm

Employee2 3 pm to 9 pm

Employee3 9 pm to finish


When 8 pm rolls around an "announcement" would be made that the store is about to close. Maybe something like "Attention shoppers, the store closes in 1 hour. Please make any last minute purchases. Thank you for shopping at ." This is actually in the form of a pop up and is to let you know as well that the store is about to close.

Now, this serves two purposes as far as the customer goes. It would either greatly encourage them to buy or greatly discourage them from buying depending on how motivated they already are.

When 9 pm rolls around the store closes to the customers so everyone who is not waiting to be rung up leaves and those who are waiting will still get their purchase and you will still get the sale.

Now that the store is closed to customers and Employee3 is here, the only thing left to do is any restocking/cleaning. With that finished, you go to the cash register and click "close store." THEN, the financial report pops up and the final employee (if still there) leaves.

So here's how I see it playing out:

Okay so your sim is at home finishing up breakfast with the family when 8 am rolls around (since the store opens in one hour.)
A popup pops up to remind your sim that the store is set to open in one hour. The options would be "Go to work" or "Keep store closed."
Say your sim doesn't want to close the store for the entire day but isn't quite ready to go to work, (it happens, you know it does. ;) ) So choose "Keep store closed." Go get your shower or whatever and then go to the store. Open the store and the employees come in to work the remainder of their schedule. For instance, if you don't actually open the doors until 10 am instead of 9 am, Employee1 would work from 10 am to 3 pm instead of the scheduled start time. OH! OH! And have an option to call in employees if needed!!! Like when running a promotion/advertisement!!! Maybe this employee could be an "on call temporary employee."