Sim not going to work on a workday!

[Circe]

Hey guys!

Newly registered to the forums, but been following the site for a while. Love it, helps me out a lot.

Today I encountered a new problem with my lesbian couple and their teenage son.
Being a newly created community from scratch with Twallan and Storybrook world. Ive slowly starting to populate it.
This is the first teen in the game so far. Anyways, the parents have within two sim weeks been sent out to free 2 day vacations from some winning lottery thing. It started with mondays being a work day for both, but none of em went and the game said 1 day xh to next workday.

Now suddenly fridays seem to be a non work day as well. This family badly needs the money at this stage and I can´t figure out why this bug is here, or if it even is a bug. Thought it had something to do with my first teen and that vacation thing. Tried clicking the "Go to work" button, but the game recognizes the day as a paid day off apparently. Is there some way I can not have this vacation thing pop up at all times and send my sims to work for their raise, promotion and daily income?

Thx for reading my book..

/Circe

[DeLouche]

There's a thread here that may be helpful: http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,10253.0.html

So the parents are in the house, and not on vacation? Work days and hours can depend on the job, so it may seem really basic, but check they're supposed to be working - on the career tab, it'll say if you're missing work, and you can press teh 'go to work' button. Otherwise, the career outfits seem to be what's glitching the go-to-work action for a lot of people.

[Circe]

Thx for the answer, I searched the forums here, googled it, and noone seems to have this problem.
According to the career, it is a workday for example.. working monday - friday on schedule. But according to the game, they are on a free day with pay. And this after this vacation ended for two days that they won and oddly enough monday and friday became home with pay days somehow. Can´t click "go to work" since it doesn´t start for another day or so according to the game.

Ive semi-solved the problem with just not going on the vacations, and I will try this again with my legacy household with enough money to spare to be home without promotion.

[DeLouche]

Beee-zar. I suppose you could try quitting the job, then reapplying, but if you're several levels in, this will be annoying. If it's the money that's the problem, you could spend your day off searching for gems, or painting, or fishing or another money-making activity, and congratulate your sims on their superb work/life balance

I wish I had that glitch in my real life

[Circe]

Not taking the free vacation have fixed it for now. But everytime I do take it, the glitch comes up.

Ive been doing other stuff for money on those days, or improving skills that they will need on later lvls to reach higher in their careers. Still it bugs me =)

Wish I had that irl too. I would NOT complain.

[cathyknits]

What careers are the parents in? There's a problem with the Criminal career in general, and also some levels of Music and Medicine, where if you get promoted after a work shift that runs past midnight your next workday will get screwed up.

[Circe]

They are working in the business and the science career.
Nothing to do with past midnight unfortunately.