Useless Butlers

Ugh, yes! I used to love having butlers, but now they seem to be a waste of computer resources, LOL! They're also horrible about picking up my babies and toddlers, but not seeing to their needs, so I can't help them because the butler is holding them AND the butler's not helping either!

@LeGardePourpre Great news, I'll try it out once I eventually play again, not sure when that'll be.

I don't own Vintage Glamour for this reason -- I'd be interested to know (from those of you who own this and have tested it) if the Butler's uselessness has been completely fixed with the new update? If so I may take the plunge and buy it.

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I find that I have the same problem with the nannies half the time! I've had a couple of houses with a butler AND a nanny, and nothing was taken care of!!!

Though the last house I played with, my single mom hired a nanny for her two adopted children, fell in love with the nanny, he moved in, and they had three more children, LOL!

Who fired the Butler? a short But true Sims 4 Story:

We are told a toddler cannot fire a Butler so, who fired the Butler?
A Father and his baby girl. a True Story Sims 4
This father was very close to his baby girl, she was a toddler. anytime she needed her daddy he seems to be there. But since his baby was adopted he did not feel he would be able to care for all her needs. the father decided to hire a nanny and a Butler. at great cost to him. This is Sims 4 where the babies behave very real to their trait. so she was an angelic baby. very sweet and loving, always giving and wanting hugs.

The baby girl had just been potty train. by her father and also help from the nanny. Now she was used to her Butler and her nanny being around and there to help her. So sometimes the Butler would come in her room to perhaps watch her or do what he mostly did was sleep on her chair. She had a bathroom of her own off from her bedroom which had two doors one that leads to the hall that joins other rooms in their home.
So now the baby girl is playing with her dollhouse, and I see the Butler is in the Toddlers' bathroom taking a bath in her tub. Butlers do take a bath in any tub they wish. Now the baby is playing with her dollhouse when she has to go potty. she does not want to wet her diaper. you can see her thought bubble has a diaper and no wet sign.
her potty meter is in yellow she has to go now but if it goes to red means she is going to soon wet her diaper. so she is fast off to her bathroom to potty. also, her nanny comes in through the hall door to help. The Butler is out of the tub and dressed just as she comes into her bath to potty.
Now at this point in the game, the babies did accept help for potty and were used to being helped by any of their care-giver's.
But at this level of her potty training. the baby's wanted the caregivers to turn so that they can first sit on the potty. The baby looked at the nanny beckoning her to turn around to give baby privacy to sit first. Nanny did turn. The baby then looks at the Butler beckoning Butler to turn. Butler did not turn around. Butler just keeps looking at the baby.

The baby is clearly getting upset and is now in red and about to wet her diaper.the baby did wait as long as she could.
She yelled for her daddy as loud as she could. in a flash her daddy was in the bathroom. Then the baby shows her thoughts or talked to her daddy he understood she showed a picture of the Butler with a red circle around it, with a red line through his picture. was clear that the baby wanted her daddy to get the Butler out of her bathroom. So the father also clearly upset, gets in the Butlers face and then reprimands the Butler.
Butler's true words were "I did not think it was a big deal." and he left out of the bathroom through the hall door. The nanny had already left the room fast seeing possible trouble.
Now the baby is kind of shaking not to wet diaper but sits on the potty, in time.
The daddy follows the Butler out of the bathroom and stops and stands outside the baby's bathroom door facing the butler. still having words with the Butler.
Ok, Daddy is still waiting outside the baby's bathroom door. at this time, The baby girl again puts up the picture of the Butler with the red circle around it with the red line through his face.
The Father then Fire the Butler. The Butler said fine and said to pay what he's owed for that day and left.
Who Fired The Butler?

I found that praising them gives them a temporary boost to do a better job. And they keep putting the dog bowls in their inventory and I have to keep buying food bowls for them. My pets, not the butler. Although I do have to wonder if they like the pet food and that's why the bowls disappear! I had one that was a Klepto and they kept swiping my sims belongings. It would be interesting if we could catch a butler or maid swiping things and call the police on them. I miss the police in the game!

Theres an option to ask a butler to cook a group meal, i never click on it because I don’t want her to...
Yet she keeps getting ingredients out, I’ve told her off, she still does it, I enclosed an oven in it’s own room, she still does it... she doesn’t have access to the fridge now, so I’ll prob have to keep an eye on her for starvation...

I presume these group meals add to the expenditure of having a butler? I have her because she’s cheaper and more reliable, works everyday in comparison to gardeners and cleaners...

My Sim isn’t rich, it’s just penny pinching

Just recently I had a butler that just sat around and read a book on how to be a butler while listening to the talk radio station. While there were lots of stuff that needed cleaning and plants needed tending to. And add salt to the wound of this butler not doing his job like he was hired to do. I had my sim switch the radio station to a Latin station so they can dance Rumbasim to Latin music. He would immediately turn the radio back to the talk radio station. And he gets mad when I have my sim discipline about him not doing the work that he was hired to do. I was strongly considering firing that sim for that because he's not the one that's running that household. But that butler acts like he's the one that's in charge of that house. But I didn't fire him though.

I recently got this pack and did not have any issues with my butler. The only thing I have an issue with is that it states you have them FOREVER, yet my Sims went to the gym and when they came back, the butler was gone and a new guy was there. I do not have a notification that he quit and they talked to him all the time. He did what he was supposed to and I had them praise him a lot. I am not sure why he is listed as a friend now and I have a new butler. Do they go on vacation and come back, or is it old news that they are with you forever? I am very confused now since he was not with them for a long time. Does anyone have an insight to this? I cannot find a thread or anything online about it, they all say the only way they leave is they quit or get fired or die. Any info would be helpful! Thank you!

"hrlyquin4;c-16461870" wrote:
I recently got this pack and did not have any issues with my butler. The only thing I have an issue with is that it states you have them FOREVER, yet my Sims went to the gym and when they came back, the butler was gone and a new guy was there. I do not have a notification that he quit and they talked to him all the time. He did what he was supposed to and I had them praise him a lot. I am not sure why he is listed as a friend now and I have a new butler. Do they go on vacation and come back, or is it old news that they are with you forever? I am very confused now since he was not with them for a long time. Does anyone have an insight to this? I cannot find a thread or anything online about it, they all say the only way they leave is they quit or get fired or die. Any info would be helpful! Thank you!

That would be an issue because unless you have fired the old butler and hired a new one just prior to your sim hitting the gym. That butler should have returned to resume their duties as butler when your sim returned home. My butlers have always returned and resume their job as butler when ever my sims returned home. But once in a while, I'll get stuck with a lazy butler. But even those return when my sims get home. And I never get stuck with a butler that I didn't hire. Try clearing your localthumbcache, and then do a repair game. And see if that doesn't help clear up your new butler issue. You can find your localthumbcache under EA/Sims 4 document in your document file folder.