Townies steal my sims drinks!!

Yep happens to me almost every time!! And my poor simmies are left with footing the bill and not getting their delicious beverage! Maybe there is a glitch in the routing that allows this to happen? I also have had problems where if I am running my own business ( bakery, clothing, etc ) and I hire employees they do absolutely nothing!! They just stand there talking in the way. They never ring people out or anything. I always loved having my sims run their own shops out of their homes ( I did this a lot in " Open for Business" EP and would usually run a flower shop) but now running your own business is so unfair to my sim that I don't do it anymore. They end up working all day by themselves to only make a few dollars and are so exhausted by the end of the day that they aren't able to build any skills etc.