[HR] Ranch Hand Stays Past 7 pm

My ranch hand is buggy, too. He stays way past 7pm, breaks items that have been upgraded to be unbreakable, can't remember chore directions (I have to uncheck 'repairs' daily or he goes around breaking everything), and spends most of his time dancing, painting, drinking water continuously or playing instruments.  My mini sheep threaten to leave unless my Sims undertake their care, negating the point of a ranch hand. He does pet my chickens, though, I'll give him that 😅

I also got my ranch hand thru the free services perk. 

 He does pet my chickens, though, I'll give him that 😅

as in: he leaves the entire area covered in chickenfeed? because thats the case for me lol. my ranch hand just died repairing something and now i have two ranch hands. i saw someone else having the duplication happen and now im worried ill soon have the whole town as my ranch hands dying in droves on my lot... is it fixable? because at that point i might as well see how far i can take this bug... can i get the whole town involved?

I am unable to get rid of my ranch hand. Have fired them multiple times and it doesn't get them leaving. Either nothing happens, or I will get the pop-up about the ending of contract, but they still won't leave and I still can't hire a new ranch hand. I can't send them away either, I either don't get the Send home option, or if I do, they still won't leave. Telling them to "go away" doesn't work. Killing them doesn't work either, a new ranch hand will spawn. Absolutely losing my mind with this and the fact that this is an old bug and it's still active. I have no mods, CC, nothing, just a lot of packs.

I wouldn't mind as much if they did something, but all they do is play violin, prank my toilets and very seldom they do their actual job so my place is a mess and the ranch hand is only in the way. Drives me nuts.

Same problem in PS5. 😞

mine also stays after 7 pm and spends more time in the house than with the animals. I wish he would just leave (like a rabbit hole) for an hour or two if there is nothing for him to do during the day, than just invade my house and set the kitchen on fire by trying to cook something.

I read in another thread somewhere that for them he stays longer if you travel during the time he is there. I'm not sure but that might be the issue for me too, or at least one of the reasons he might stay later than he should.

Also, is anyone experiencing the ranch hand getting replaced? I'm so tired of becoming friends with an employee sim like the ranch hand, for him to get replaced the next day.

I also fired a ranch hand because he set the kitchen on fire several times, would block sims using the downstairs bathroom because he just had to fix the sink for hours, but never actually fixing it. Or taking out trash my scout child sim needed to take out for his bage, join in on birthday parties etc.

I got another ranch hand the day after I fired this one, but then the day after that the other menace was back again.

I tried locking the door for employees but I had a nanny than needed access to the house and since there are no specific lock door for the ranch hand, I had to let him roam the house... I am pretty sure I traveled after getting the new ranch hand, so again, that might have something to do with it.
Since the same is true for butlers, god forbid you go anywhere in the game if you have a butler, they will most of the time be replaced for no reason.