@Stormsview , I believe that when EA created all the „helpers“ giving them sort of bad traits, that they didn“t realize how REALLY LAZY they are. BUT you as a player have the ability to change their traits which is positve. Also EA has tweeked the butlers awhile back with a patch so that they are now putting cooked food away, and it works just fine in my game. As I have written in my obove post my butler is very nice and does everything he has to do with changed traits. Even when a gardener forget a few plants which is very seldom, he will go outside taking care of the forgotten plants. As a matter of fact he will mostly do the gardening all by his self, and when the gardener arrives, there isn‘t really much left to do. The nanny in my game is also very nice and doing what she has to do.
So for everybody whom complain about their helpers“ should change their traits picking only positive ones. You‘ll see that they will change for the better. When I‘m back on my comp I will post some pictures of my helpers trait settings.