[LD] [GF] Can no longer join Sims at work in active careers

Hi erikag098​ 

• Does this happen for all your households in a given save ?
• Did you try a new save as well for testing purposes ?
• If it's just a particular household, how many Sims do you have in that household ?
• Did you test other active career then the reaper one ?
• Do you have any Sims in a WFH career ?

I tested the issue in a new save file and made two separate households with different active careers. I found that both the reaper and acting careers work; I get the pop-up message/can join them at work.

I know my Sim in the screenshots I attached doesn't work from home. She also owns a business (with the Businesses and Hobbies pack). As for the amount of Sims in this household, I have 8 Sims - her, two children, one toddler, one newborn, two cats, and a horse.

On the same save file, I have a couple of Sims in a separate household who are both in the acting career. The issue also happens with them, and none of them own a business or work from home. It's also just them two in the household - no other Sims. This problem happens with all of my Sims in active careers.

So I think it's an old save file issue. I also had no issues with this before until the recent background update or whatever it was. The other day, I got a Sims Delivery pop-up asking me to download something.

I can't test the doctor, detective, or those careers because I don't have Get to Work, so I don't know if those are buggy, too.

I just don't want to start all over and use a new save file to bypass this issue because I have lots of hours put into this save. This is also the only save file I have; I have no other saves (not counting the one I made to test this bug).

If I'm able to, I can attach a video to better show what happens with this issue. I'll add it when I get the chance.

Hopefully a video better shows what this bug does. Here's a quick clip I took.

Could you also test if it's working for someone newly added to the career in that save ? Unfortunately since you're on XBox I can't look at your save game.

There is an open report for teens but with that it's unclear if it has to do with the multiple teens at school issue. There have also been on/off reports for careers but it was always fixable.

Did you try quitting the career and re-joining as well as turning the follow option off and back on ?

I tested another household who's in the reaper career at a lower job level/position. I had her quit and rejoin and it worked. But I don't want to quit if my other Sim is at the max level in the same career if it would remove her Grim's Right Hand trait. Plus I got her to the highest level legitimately and I just don't know if I wanna do everything over again and not use cheats. 

Could you test on a backup just to see if it works with that one too, for science ? Rejoining should put you on one level lower then you were before.

Did you also try turn on/off the following message ? I would save under new name and restart the game before switching it back on.

Yes, I made sure the follow option was enabled. 

Looks like rejoining the career fixed it, and I luckily didn't lose my Sim's trait or career progress. She immediately went back to level 10 of the reaper career when I had her rejoin.

I don't know what caused this issue. Sorry if it wasn't anything worth making a report about. I just didn't know what was going on and it was frustrating trying to deal with it. At least I found a fix. I just hope it doesn't happen again.

I just encountered the same. I think it started after fairy number two in the household took a job in the naturopath career. Her mother is max level naturopath, but it worked when she moved in with the reaper sim. Since both of the fairies have been working and starting at 9 I've not seen the popup for the reaper sim. I just tried the suggestion with toggling off, saving as new (always doing that though), restarting (and the deleted the thumbchache file before), activated popup on the reaper sim again and it was now a saturday and the younger fairy at level 5-6ish in naturopath got to call in sick to work - but she still got her 4-option popup and the reaper sim just went running to hers. Starting to get really sad about it. Hopefully it suddenly starts working again, or the second fairy will probably get to quit her job soon. So it seems sort of the naturopath popup "hinders" the reaper one for me, or something like that. On those there's no like toggle thingy for popups, so it's difficult to do something then. So might be something connected to that? And maybe certain levels. They recently were in Selvadorada also, and then super weirdly enough the max naturopath fairy got raises to the salary, and the lower level fairy got promotions - even though not being on the job but in a jungle :S

...and this is on PC.