It's All But Academic, Now. UPDATE

"Lyrie;c-18137324" wrote:
@GalacticGal

Hey there it has nothing to do with your game, you don’t need to restart, it is an age old bug that looks like EA won’t fix sadly!

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-VGSP-Butler-changes-after-going-to-another-lot/td-p/6734312

Thanks, I had a look at the help thread, but nothing matches what's going on in my game. I've played with Butlers on and off since I got the pack they came with. What I discovered was the first Butler was great. He was so dedicated that he went out into the rain to repair the rock-climbing device. He died. I didn't notice this, focusing on one of the other Sims in my household, until another Butler came running to the house. Then he disappeared. Again a third Butler came along, but since the second one died the way the first one did. (There were two tombstones out in the back yard near the broken device) I had my Teen boys distract him to keep him from the same fate.

Another time, the Butler got replaced and it left me wondering why. Then my Sim ran into him while in town. He came back a few days later and resumed his duties like nothing had happened. I gathered that even Butlers deserve a day or two off. That's not what's happening now. The first Butler, Yumika, never did return, until after Erik called to hire another one. The second Butler the Agency sent over in her place, hates children, besides has little or no desire to clean the house! Yumika answered the second round of hiring. Then she just left again, inexplicably.

What's really weird is that she was in my game, weeping over Kayleigh's deceased mother. (Kayleigh is Erik's wife.) I saved the game before I shut down. The next day, she was nowhere. AGAIN. This is either a new bug, or a twisted reset of the older one. I did a game repair and shall see where I stand today.