Why do job count change?

"aidx1054;c-1988792" wrote:

"beastlymm;c-1988786" wrote:
But there are other characters with no pending jobs that the unemployment office omits too

What characters are omitted? and for what task lengths? The only reason I can think of other than what has already been mentioned is that the characters doesn't have an independent cash earning task for the length you're setting.
E.g.

• Princess Penelope won't be sent on her 1 hour job via the unemployment office because it earns krustyland tickets not cash.
  
• Robo Burns and Doggy Smithers won't be sent on their 4 hour task because they are joint tasks not individual.
  
• Gummy Joe (I think that's his name) won't be sent on a 24 hour task because he just doesn't have one.
  
• Springfield's won't be able to shop at the Kwik-E-Mart for their 1 hour task if there's no Kwik-E-Mart placed in your Springfield.
  

Task length is 4 hours. An example would be Dr. Hebert. No pending job, but isn’t included when I use the OOU.

"beastlymm;c-1988817" wrote:

"aidx1054;c-1988792" wrote:

"beastlymm;c-1988786" wrote:
But there are other characters with no pending jobs that the unemployment office omits too

What characters are omitted? and for what task lengths? The only reason I can think of other than what has already been mentioned is that the characters doesn't have an independent cash earning task for the length you're setting.
E.g.

• Princess Penelope won't be sent on her 1 hour job via the unemployment office because it earns krustyland tickets not cash.
  
• Robo Burns and Doggy Smithers won't be sent on their 4 hour task because they are joint tasks not individual.
  
• Gummy Joe (I think that's his name) won't be sent on a 24 hour task because he just doesn't have one.
  
• Springfield's won't be able to shop at the Kwik-E-Mart for their 1 hour task if there's no Kwik-E-Mart placed in your Springfield.
  

Task length is 4 hours. An example would be Dr. Hebert. No pending job, but isn’t included when I use the OOU.

Do you have the mad doctor hibbert skin from this event? If you do but haven't finished his questline that would stop Dr hibbert from going on his job even though he's in his regular skin. That's the only reason I can think of anyways, unless you don't have the orange house but then you wouldn't be able to assign him manually either

I just checked. Nope, just good ol doc H.

Maybe you could try storing the unemployment office and any of the affected characters and see if bringing them back out fixes anything

"jaythecanadian;c-1988800" wrote:

Anyways, when I sent everybody on the 24 hr task by using the Office of Unemployment.....Jay G doesn't go right away and I have to sent him manually. Not sure why.

Jay G's 24hr task is a joint with his goose Goosius. ("Feed Goosius")

"beastlymm;c-1988786" wrote:
But there are other characters with no pending jobs that the unemployment office omits too

I think I know what you could be getting???

Firstly. ~
A Christmas Daily Challenge would stop some of my characters being assigned, and if I rejected it the characters would still not be assigned.
Even though the task was no longer at the top of their list and it was not highlighted yellow.
Result. ~
Going to Other Springfield and back reseted this and then they could be assigned as normal from the Office Of Unemployment.

Secondly. ~
If the character will not be assigned, is it because they have a different skin on.
I have had some characters in different skins because they bring in more money, but the required task, (be it a DC or a Christmas event task), is not highlighted or prioritised.
Result. ~
Select the character's regular form and the task should be highlighted and prioritised.

Thirdly. ~
Christmas Tree Ralph would not go on 24hr from Office Of Employment and had to be set manually.
I don't know?
He did not have any required jobs in his regular form, he just would not be assigned from OE.
I think he might have gone back to regular Ralph, will have to keep an eye on it.

@beastlymm
I should state I have had this happen before the Christmas event.

A Christmas Daily Challenge would stop some of my characters being assigned, and if I rejected it the characters they would still not be assigned.
Even though the task was no longer at the top of their list and it was not highlighted yellow.
Result. ~
Going to Other Springfield and back reseted this and then they could be assigned as normal from the Office Of Unemployment.

It happened with a few characters but also with Channel 6 Broadcast's and growing crops at Cletus's Farm.
Something in the Christmas update caused it to happen more often, is it possible there is a remaining glitch of this on your device.
Christmas Tree Ralph will now be assigned on 24hr task, whatever the problem was, it is now gone.

"OhHappyJays;c-1989153" wrote:

"jaythecanadian;c-1988800" wrote:

Anyways, when I sent everybody on the 24 hr task by using the Office of Unemployment.....Jay G doesn't go right away and I have to sent him manually. Not sure why.

Jay G's 24hr task is a joint with his goose Goosius. ("Feed Goosius")

My Jay G goes on his 24hr Hang With His Entourage task.