Sims leave job/school after another sim travels

Would you be willing to share your save with me ?

If so, please zip your saves folder and upload it somewhere like dropbox, googledrive or OneDrive and PM me the link.

So I don't completely understand all your questions, I don't know how or where to look for those files you're requesting. I usually just don't touch anything because I don't want to create problems. What initially happened was I was not able to open or play the sims at all about a month ago after it told me to download the update. I tried all the troubleshooting tips and it didn't work so I jusg left it for a couple weeks. Then the game started to work as normal for a few sessions, up until it recently asked me for another update. 

Now what happens is I will be playing for a bit and send my sims to school and to work as normal, but then I'll have to exit out of sims for the day because of I have a lot of work responsibilities. I only end up being able to play for an hour or so a few times a week. The next time I log back into my game, when they were in the middle of school or work, they just suddenly arrive home and I get a notification saying they're done with class or work for that day. Because it cuts off their school/work day, the game treats it as if they're "playing hookey." So their performance goes down. I've also noticed now that when I send them to school and work, their performance bar doesn't change at all, it neither increases or decreases, no matter if they've completed all daily tasks, are in a good mood, and have the "work hard" option on. This happens across all ages, all careers, and all types of schooling. It even happens when the child sim goes to a scout meeting and her performance isn't increasing despite the fact she's collected all the badges and is still not advancing to the next level.

Also no I do not use any mods or stuff like that. And I guess these aren't for any active jobs. The one sim is in tech guru, the other sim is in entertainment as a comedian, and the child is in school and the scouts club. I also don't have that expansion pack for school or whatever it is called, so it shouldn't be doing this. I've just had continuous errors whenever the sims release an update or whatever, and I'm regretting my decision to even buy expansion packs when it's now feeling like a waste of money if I can barely play the game without incurring some sort of bug/error.

And like I said, I also don't want to go meddling around deleting files because I'm worried I will delete any saved content I have or do something seriously wrong to my game.

The files can be found in this folder: Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4

Exception files are just log files and you can delete them with no consequences. Your saves are saved in the saves folder. You can find more info on each file in this post: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/user-files-explained/

It's also always good to create backups of your user files.

You used the tag: Crashing. Crashing means that your game auto-closes and your back on the desktop. Since you used that tag, I wonder when that happens in your game.

If you start a new save game for testing purposes, does this happen to or is it isolated to that save game ?

The problem with this is that something usually triggers them to come back home so what you are seeing is just a symptom of something going on in that save game and the more info, the easier it is to narrow down what's causing it.

One known reason for example are club meetings. Do you have any going on ?

In my household, I have a sim who goes to work and two who go to school before the detective career starts. Since the latest update whenever I click “join” to go to work with my detective sim to play the career, it brings everyone who went to work/school home for the day (at 9am sims time). It’s just slightly frustrating as my sims are going down in performance at their jobs/school as a result. I’m just not sure if there’s a way to fix this or if I will have to wait for the next update.

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Do you also have issues for loading screens ? Like do they come home if you leave them at work and then close down the game and restart ?

Does it matter what careers the other Sims are in ?

Hi! I’ve never had any issues with loading screens and them leaving when I come in/out of the game. It only seems to happen when I join the active careers. 

Ever since the nature event started my sim won’t stay at work. The first time it happened one of my sims was already at work, they have an active career so I joined them at work. When my other sim went to work, he stayed at work until my active career sim came home and came home too, even though he only worked half his schedule.

The next sim day, my sim went to work and I had my other sim go to the library. As soon as my sim got to the library my other sim came immediately back home. Is there a glitch or something in the game because it’s making my sims work performance go down??

Same here. When The Nature Calling Quest was introduced to my game I got the same issue. If one of my sims goes to work, and the other at home leaves the lot, every sim at work or school will return not completing their school/work. It’s frustrating. I’ve been using cheats for grade performance boosters and money.  The only way I know how to combat this issue is to make sure no sim ever leaves their lot while the other is at school/work, or accept that the others will return. Glad I’m not alone but sorry you’re dealing with this too :( Hope this gets fixed

This is happening for me too. I have 2 sims in a household, 1 with a rabbithole career and one with an active one. The rabbithole sim leaves at 8 then when the sim with the active career goes to work at 9 it forces the rabbithole sim home for the day. This is causing the rabbithole Sim's career to tank out. Just started when the Nature Calling Quest started. Not sure how to fix. 

Note: I am on PC. I noticed the original poster was on Playstation.

So I had two sims in my household at work/school. When I left the lot for an interior decorator gig, the game forced my other sims home, not allowing them to finish their time at work/school. Also happened again while the same two were out, then I left the lot with my third sim for a meetup and they came home again. I have all the expansion packs, including the two new ones (lovestruck and life and death), perhaps that's where it stems from? I haven't had this happen before installing those.