I don't know if it is actually called a bug or a glitch but whenever my sim goes to work from a location that isn't the home lot, when it makes me go back to the home lot to wait for them to finish work, it instantly stops them from being at work and sends them home too. Yesterday when playing, my sim literally returned home with the game saying she had done lots of hard work yet she had only made 1 single simoleon. I reloaded the game and it still keeps happening. I even full on reinstalled the game which also didn't fix anything. Does anyone know anything that could fix it?
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Sims leave job/school after another sim travels
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- Heddelviven7 months agoSeasoned Ace
Yes so incredibly annoying! School performance drops and all.
Don't think it has to do with the GTW pack though. Seems more like a base game issue to me.
- Rhiannon1247 months agoNew Spectator
Same thing happening to me after the base game update this week! So annoying as I can’t go to my vet practice to work without the kids leaving school. Their school performance is going down and the teenage son who’s a genius was an A student, now dropped to a C 😢 I play on the Xbox too and no mods or CC
- OizysBaby7 months agoSeasoned Newcomer
My sims is a detective and when I travel to crime sceen or go on patrol my other sims in the household leaves work very annoying and it sounds like it's happing with all the active career are broken right now
- DarkSimzzz7 months agoSeasoned Vanguard
Edited:
Now also messing up 'vacation' times as well.
3 teens are on vacation and doing a nature aspiration ( for the event)
I was playing for a few hours yesterday and it was all fine.
Load into it today and 1 sim gets a notification that he has to go to school soon and I'm getting the follow message. He is actually on vacation in the vacation world, together with the other 2. It also doesn't say on his work schedule he's on vacation anymore and his school performance is now in the trash.
One is in an after school activity and she is being called up for that too.
He even got a call from the principal, ON VACATION.
This is hisThis is one of the others
They went together on vacation, I didn't add him later.
No Mods or CC - DarkSimzzz7 months agoSeasoned Vanguard
I can send him home from vacation, but it doesn't show him being on vacation
- sinsiriuslyemo7 months agoNew Spectator
Same. I'm in the middle of a rags to riches tiny town in my main save, so I created a new sim just to do the events/quests, and she doesn't stay at work. If she's on another lot and leaves for work from there, the loading screen spits me out at her house as normal, but she also appears back home after making, like, 20 simoleons even though her pay is 30 an hour. Her performance is hurting as well. I'm hoping it's just a bug that's occuring because they're updating/prepping for the new pack release and it'll get fixed eventually, but I'm scared to play in my normal save file, esp since I'm filming the gameplay for youtube.
- yaya00637 months agoNew Spectator
Everytime I send a Sim to work/school and that I travel to a different lot with a remaining Sim in the household, I get the notification that my other Sim performed poorly and that they only worked/attended school for a few hours/minutes. I tried removing all of my mods and it is still happening. It's been happening ever since the July 1st update.
- maughxst7 months agoNew Spectator
Whenever I travel to different location with my active sim the other one in my household just leaves work/school and it's only since the most recent update. It's making their performance go down and I'm losing household funds because of this. I don't want to keep my Sim confined to the house just because the other is working and I'm hoping this can be fixed soon as its quite frustrating:(
- Ponoki_Chan7 months agoNew Spectator
I’m experiencing a serious bug in The Sims 4 that affects all careers in one of my saves. Whenever my Sim goes to work, they immediately return home as soon as I travel to another lot or world. The game acts as if their workday is over, even if it just started.
The issue happens with every job, including base game ones. I’ve tested it with and without mods, and the bug is still there. I’ve repaired the game through the EA App, deleted all cache files, tried new households, moved the Sim to another lot, switched careers, and even reset the game files entirely.
I’m playing on PC with the latest version of the game installed as of July 2025.
Is there any known fix or update coming for this issue? Thank you for your help.
- Lovegooddd7 months agoNew Spectator
I have a few Sims in my household and they work at different times, so sometimes I go to a different lot for a while with one of them, but when I go back home with this Sim for some reason all household members go back home, including the ones that are at work. Because of this work is cut short and I only get a small amount of money, and I can't send them back to work and it affects their performance negatively (i had one sim almost getting promoted but because of this glitch her performance went down so she got no promotion). Is there anything I can do about this?
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