Just stopping by to say that I figured why my successful business man suddenly appeared as a bar tender. It turned out I edited his household in CAS to add a genetic relative, and unfortunately, when saving a household in CAS the game randomly will add a copy of that household to the bin of "Other households". The bartender I saw was not the real business man, but a copy. I just deleted that extra copy.
Now, this explains my original episode, but it raises another question - why on earth (or in SimNation) did EA think it was good idea to place a copy of saved households in that "other households" bin? Those sims are used by the game to populate streets and community lots. It's nothing new, and think I started another thread about it earlier. I dislike that as well... Be aware; when you play a sim, and run into someone familiar, it might actually be their copy, not the real sim. That might explain why some relations seem wonky in the relations panel - someone you expected to have a strong relation might turn out not to have met when you switch households.
Thanks for input!
