So I've been playing around with the new retail features that came with this expansion pack, and I have to say for the most part I am very impressed. They have added some much needed challenge to the game. One problem that I keep facing is that my employees will not actually do the tasks I assign them. For example I have one employee and I had assigned her the task of ringing up customers to help my sim out as I hadnt purchased any perks so the action took some time, well that employee continued socializing while the amount of customers ready to buy increased. Hopefully this is a bug, as I really don't want employees who stand and chat their whole shift. On a separate note, do employees get breaks? Or is the only option working them for a few hours? They hadn't been at work more than 5 hours and they had to leave because they were in overtime.

Some employees with a low work ethic will just ignore your command and socialize .

This employee had a medium work ethic when I hired her, and eventually maxed out her work ethic. All she does is socialize though, my second employee was assigned to restock, and he did that with no problems. So I out him on ring up customers and now it's the same thing.

my employee just went to a chair and sat down... then talk to anyone....never did anything.

Fire that sim, clearly they're making fun of your business :O

Thats why i made a post about it earlier today. 'Bothersome customer and employee behaviour' it does not seem to work right.

Retail employees will not complete tasks

MemoriiValentin
10 years ago
Some employees with a low work ethic will just ignore your command and socialize .
drake_mccarty
10 years ago
This employee had a medium work ethic when I hired her, and eventually maxed out her work ethic. All she does is socialize though, my second employee was assigned to restock, and he did that with no problems. So I out him on ring up customers and now it's the same thing.
breezy9592
Seasoned Newcomer
10 years ago
my employee just went to a chair and sat down... then talk to anyone....never did anything.
ARF535
10 years ago
Fire that sim, clearly they're making fun of your business :O
DomainGoat90
New Spectator
10 years ago
Thats why i made a post about it earlier today. 'Bothersome customer and employee behaviour' it does not seem to work right.
magooo63
10 years ago
Yeah, this is the same type of bug as the maid service on our residential lots. You hire them to work, and they stand around, do nothing, but collect their check when they leave. These employees are doing the same thing. This is a serious bug because I was running around my store like a chicken with his head cut off trying to check out all my customers. some even got mad and left.
VillageLark
10 years ago
So many of my customers have left! And when you first start out, you can only have one employee, so my poor sim chica is running around stressed, smelly, and starving while over-paid bum chats it up in front of the fireplace -.-
blam987
10 years ago
"drake_mccarty;13484690" wrote:
This employee had a medium work ethic when I hired her, and eventually maxed out her work ethic. All she does is socialize though, my second employee was assigned to restock, and he did that with no problems. So I out him on ring up customers and now it's the same thing.

Same with me! All the other work tasks work fine! It's just the ringing up one that i'm having problems with! I have 3 employees and they all have max work ethic and I put them all to ring up customers but they all just stood around in a circle and laughing and talking and it made me want to punch them in the face LOL! If they worked for me in real life they would have been fired already. I hope this is a bug and hope they fix it
Mortar_Chelle
10 years ago
I'm having the same issue! One of my employees has a great work ethic, said she loves her job when I checked on her, and does everything I ask accept ring up customers! She's so great at everything else that customers are constantly purchasing but my sim can't keep up with them all and customers are leaving angry as a result. I think I'm going to have to make my sim have kids just so there will be some extra hands helping out at the store. There aren't any child labor laws in TS4 right? lol ;)
mtwtfss71
10 years ago
Yes. It is definitely the ring out customers task that isn't working. My employee is maxed out and happy and does the other tasks I give her without issue. When I ask her to ring out customers, she will walk over to the customer and pull out her tablet (after finishing her conversation) and then just talk to the customer instead. Then she walks away while the customer still has the sign above his head. This happens every time.