Can anyone bring their sims back from break?

[kewian]

Or is it just me.  I sent one at a time and when a half hour went the option for them to call them back was not there nor management...both employees.  I ended up overworking one employee the next day because I cant do break.. Im going to try the snapdragons but this break is supposed to work..

[sanmonroe]

You had no get back to work option? It doesn't say anything like end your break.

If on break the negetivity of telling them to get back to work is almost negated.

Although if low paid and/or very low in needs they will never come back until you send them home for 6 hours or so.

[Ruann]

Are you telling them to "take a break" or "send home for the day"?  "Take a break" means they will go autonomous for one sim hour (according to what I read in the guide) or so and fill their needs up.  When that hour is up, all you need to do is interact with them to break them out of whatever autonomous thing they are doing and they should get back to work.   If you "Send them home" or they leave the lot, they cannot return for 8 sim hours.

You can also just assign them a new task by clicking on them and they should hop to it. 

[radiophonic]

Right, the only way to get them back to work is to use the "Get back to work" ineractoin. The negative effects are unavoidable.

[phyllis_p]

If you reassign them rather than tell them to get back to work, they take it well.  Of course, if you want them to do what they were doing before break, you'll have to reassign them twice.

Phyllis

[Gus Smedstad]

I've come to the conclusion that it's not cost-effective to send employees on breaks.  It takes a long time for them to get happy again, and when they do go back to work, they become unhappy almost immediately.  I've had better results just telling them to go home when they start getting unhappy.

 - Gus

[sanmonroe]

With the combination of snapdragons,the sleep on comm lots hacks, and a breakroom with nice beds, breaks work well. Otherwise they are worthless.

[J. M. Pescado]

Taking a break has no real effect because they just mill around in confusion and then refuse to get back to work, they don't actually *DO* anything to resolve their break. A controller is currently in the works to tell them to actually address their issues when sent on a break.

[sanmonroe]

I work my employees until they are red even completely surrounded by snapdragons. They head straight to bed!

Depending on the shop and if its run by one of my typical sims, they may get a nooner for their break as well.

[Ancient Sim]

The first one I sent on break spent the entire time talking to the shop-owner (well, she basically zoomed-in on him telling him jokes), the second just stood there as if he had no idea what to do and eventually went to use the toilet, the third hovered around the piano the entire time (a customer was playing it) and then wouldn't go back to work so I sent her home and the fourth chatted to some customers, then went back to making bouquets of his own accord, even though he was still in the yellow (so I sent him home anyway).  The first three were teens and the fourth was a adult.  In all cases, there was food readily available, but none of them attempted to eat it.  Ideally, I'd have two employees for each job and bring in the second lot when the first lot were tired (and sent home, no breaks), but the game insists on you calling in ALL staff.  I'd love a mod for this, because sometimes I don't want to call in all staff, I may just want one or two members, depending on whether or not I want the shop-owner to do some of the work.

I also find the hours confusing.  All the employees are shown as working 9-5, yet apart from one they've all continued to work after those hours.  Maybe they're being paid overtime?

[speedreader]

Taking a break has no real effect because they just mill around in confusion and then refuse to get back to work, they don't actually *DO* anything to resolve their break. A controller is currently in the works to tell them to actually address their issues when sent on a break.

As usual, you are on top of the most ridiculous of Maxis lack of forethought.  Thank you JMP!  All our shop owners thank you as well 

[Lion]

With the combination of snapdragons,the sleep on comm lots hacks, and a breakroom with nice beds, breaks work well. Otherwise they are worthless.

Which sleep on comm lots do you use? I found one by Echo at MTS2, and also one on www.djssims.com. I used both (not at the same time), but so far, I haven't found anyone to sleep autonomously.

[syberspunk]

Which sleep on comm lots do you use? I found one by Echo at MTS2, and also one on www.djssims.com. I used both (not at the same time), but so far, I haven't found anyone to sleep autonomously.

Theoretically they should both work together. Do you have echo's latest version? He updated to in order to raise the sleeping thresholds. What happens is, energy normally needs to drop to about -90 in order for sims to choose to autonomously sleep. But on community lots, sims will want to leave if the energy drops below -60. So, echo updated his mod so the threshold was raised to -40. At least that's what I got from reading that thread. *shrugs* I haven't tried it out myself, but if you have an older version, you should get the 3/7/06 update.

Ste

[Lion]

Ideally, I'd have two employees for each job and bring in the second lot when the first lot were tired (and sent home, no breaks), but the game insists on you calling in ALL staff.  I'd love a mod for this, because sometimes I don't want to call in all staff, I may just want one or two members, depending on whether or not I want the shop-owner to do some of the work.

I also find the hours confusing.  All the employees are shown as working 9-5, yet apart from one they've all continued to work after those hours.  Maybe they're being paid overtime?

I second this request because I like to use two shifts too, so I actually hope that the first shift workers would say "I'm too tired", because I need to use them the shift after  l The problem, though, is if you have a sim to visit that comm lot, two workers would fight to work on the same thing. I visited Cafe Petite owned by the bakery lady, and two cashiers "dance around" each other over the register the whole time!

And Syberspunk, I think I have the updated version, I guess I will wait more and see. They don't sleep if they work on a home business, do they? I'm trying to run a hotel business, both at home business and comm business, so far, nobody stayed long enough to sleep 

[sanmonroe]

With the combination of snapdragons,the sleep on comm lots hacks, and a breakroom with nice beds, breaks work well. Otherwise they are worthless.

Which sleep on comm lots do you use? I found one by Echo at MTS2, and also one on www.djssims.com. I used both (not at the same time), but so far, I haven't found anyone to sleep autonomously.

MTS2_248548_Echo_echo_community_sleep

[akatonbo]

I second this request because I like to use two shifts too, so I actually hope that the first shift workers would say "I'm too tired", because I need to use them the shift after  l The problem, though, is if you have a sim to visit that comm lot, two workers would fight to work on the same thing. I visited Cafe Petite owned by the bakery lady, and two cashiers "dance around" each other over the register the whole time!

Have you tried putting in a second register?

[Lion]

hmmm, that can be a solution, no, I didn't. It doesn't look good for a tiny Cafe Petite 

[kewian]

ok...i cant find the snapdragons.  Ive given up on the break things...yall are right..it does no good.  just wait until they are mad and send them home.  I have had 3 people quit on me.

[veilchen]

Well Kewian, I don't know exactly what you mean when you say that you are not finding the snapdragons. If you just misplaced yours, nevermind this post, otherwise you have to make them yourself. They are the gold badge item in the floral arrangement station.

[kewian]

I didnt realize that.  Duh...makes sense now. thanks....

[radiophonic]

Taking a break has no real effect because they just mill around in confusion and then refuse to get back to work, they don't actually *DO* anything to resolve their break. A controller is currently in the works to tell them to actually address their issues when sent on a break.

I've found that calling them over to the break room has some effect on making them taking a proper break. You can lock them in the room if necessary.

What we need are vending machines and pay espresso machines so we can make some extra cash off of them when they're on break.

Maybe we need a break room uses you? lol

[jeffreyc]

Taking a break has no real effect because they just mill around in confusion and then refuse to get back to work, they don't actually *DO* anything to resolve their break. A controller is currently in the works to tell them to actually address their issues when sent on a break.

YES! The master is fixing things for the better yet again!  I was just looking around for a hack to make their mood decay slower and here I find a design flaw fix 

[flowerchile]

I sent my employees on a break today and they returned by themselves.  On the previous day they had no breaks but helped themselves to food and went to the toilet as needed and then went straight back to work.   

[Sagana]

Which sleep on comm lots do you use? I found one by Echo at MTS2, and also one on www.djssims.com. I used both (not at the same time), but so far, I haven't found anyone to sleep autonomously.

Theoretically they should both work together.

I believe Echo said on his thread that they *don't* work together, although there is a fairly simple fix to make them if you want and can do a bit of that kind of thing. (I can't... that's just what I understood from the thread).

[Batelle]

I sent an employee to break and they disappeared from the lot.

This same employee is a co-manager at a community lot store and he never comes in.  When the lot owner or her husband call in the employees, and it doesn't matter at what time of day it is or how long I know he hasn't been there, he always gives the pop-up for "I'm too tired to come in".

I like having him run the place when the sim owner is not there, but I would like to have him around because he has a Gold Badge in register and without him, she only has one other employee.