"Cursed" Monday...:)
Marvin Kosh:
Just yesterday, one of my Sims got annoyed by her employer for not turning up for her Cat Burglar job, when she'd just got home and been promoted from Bank Robber. This was on a Monday too.
windy_moon:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 October 29, 13:23:07
That's not a glitch, that's how it's designed to work. It even says this in the Prima Guide (which has been known to be wrong, but is right in this case.) If you don't want the mother to go to work, just cancel it out of her queue. She will get paid for a vacation day. If you want to save her vacation days, either have her go to work or call in sick. But she won't go to work if there is no one to care for the baby. She will say something about having responsibilities but can't bring herself to leave the little ones alone. Unless you have JM's social worker hack, that is. It's good to note that if both parents or a teen is home when the mom goes to work, the last one to leave will not be able to leave for work or school unless you hire a nanny or something.
* blush *
Certainly not the first baby I've had, how did this seem wrong to me? *scratches head*
Must have been a brain fart. Thanks!
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edit - come to think of it, it may very well be the first time I've had a birth on the mother's work day. The baby is just born, there's all of this confusion in the house, the extended family is still standing around and my Sim mother twirls around and whips into her work clothes. There's dedicated and then there's nuts. Thank heavens Grandpa was holding the newborn or she might very well have dropped the baby on the floor.
Still blushing.....
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Marvin Kosh on 2005 October 29, 13:24:56
Just yesterday, one of my Sims got annoyed by her employer for not turning up for her Cat Burglar job, when she'd just got home and been promoted from Bank Robber. This was on a Monday too.
thats normal the marquee saying Mrs so and so has been promoted from bank robber to cat burglar always gets the rest of the day off as once gone the carpool doesnt return. I have NL so I outfit my sims with a car as soon as possible that way if a promotion occurs and the new hours mean Ms. Sim should still be at work I click on the car and send my sim back to work.Ive gotten two promotion in one day for a sim by doing that
baratron:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 29, 01:43:16
I have always tried to get my Sims pregnant just before having a few days off, because they've been getting paid, even if they weren't scheduled to work, from the very beginning.
Now, I usually have my Sims fairly high in their career, which would mean they'd have vacation days accrued, before they ever got pregnant. If your Sims actually weren't getting paid, this may be the reason.
I've heard it said (presumably here) that Natural Scientists at the top of their career (Ecological Guru) can earn $70,000 a week from well-timed pregnancies. I'm under the impression that, if the sim is pregnant on a day she'd normally work, then she will be paid maternity pay for 3 days following plus the "stay at home & look after new baby" pay for the next 3 days. Thus if your Ecological Guru goes to work pregnant on Wednesday (her only work day), she'll then get the next 6 days paid - even though she wouldn't normally work on these days.
I suspect that people who are finding their sims aren't getting the full 3 days of paid maternity are also people who are getting their sims pregnant on a non-work day :). While it makes sense to do this so the sims get a day to rest (especially with the pregnancy mystery choking death bug that is supposedly now fixed), it must be stopping them from getting a "free" day's pay. That's my guess, anyway.
I'm not sure what happens with pregnant men - they don't normally get maternity pay, do they? But they do get the "stay at home for childcare" vacation.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: baratron on 2005 October 29, 20:38:29
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 29, 01:43:16
I have always tried to get my Sims pregnant just before having a few days off, because they've been getting paid, even if they weren't scheduled to work, from the very beginning.
Now, I usually have my Sims fairly high in their career, which would mean they'd have vacation days accrued, before they ever got pregnant. If your Sims actually weren't getting paid, this may be the reason.
I've heard it said (presumably here) that Natural Scientists at the top of their career (Ecological Guru) can earn $70,000 a week from well-timed pregnancies. I'm under the impression that, if the sim is pregnant on a day she'd normally work, then she will be paid maternity pay for 3 days following plus the "stay at home & look after new baby" pay for the next 3 days. Thus if your Ecological Guru goes to work pregnant on Wednesday (her only work day), she'll then get the next 6 days paid - even though she wouldn't normally work on these days.
I suspect that people who are finding their sims aren't getting the full 3 days of paid maternity are also people who are getting their sims pregnant on a non-work day :). While it makes sense to do this so the sims get a day to rest (especially with the pregnancy mystery choking death bug that is supposedly now fixed), it must be stopping them from getting a "free" day's pay. That's my guess, anyway.
I'm not sure what happens with pregnant men - they don't normally get maternity pay, do they? But they do get the "stay at home for childcare" vacation.
if a man is pregnant they get maternity pay. i have never gotten the vacation time for my sims since I got the base game in 2004. dont know why that glitch occurs in my game but it does
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