OfB Employee payments: How broken are they, exactly?
pioupiou:
Quote from: pbox on 2007 August 19, 15:53:27
Quote from: Khan of Wyrms
If a business owner hires a teenager to work the cash register, for instance, they should be able to set the work schedule for the employee to show up at 2, so that they can stay in school
There is a fix for that too, not sure what it's called but I think it's a MATY hack. Not exactly what you want (totally customisable work hours) but at least it moves the teen work schedule to something school-compatible, 15:00-20:00 or somesuch .. but I agree with you, custom schedules would be the better solution =)
I may be wrong, but I think it is a MAXIS thing, that was corrected in the OFB Patch : teenagers had the same hours as adults pre-patch (9-17), and the patch changed it so that teenagers work 15-20.
The lot debugger or maybe the BRY has the option to choose between 9-17 and15-20.
J. M. Pescado:
You'll also need the job fixes for that, or the wages get calculated wrong, though.
pixiejuice:
Quote from: Khan of Wyrms on 2007 August 19, 15:30:58
As for the 'double-dipping', do the employees also get paid when visiting the lot with a third party, so that they are actually 'triple-dipping' or even more, depending upon how many times the business is visited by playable customers? I never really bothered to check this out.
This is the thing that bothers me most. I don't care about the double-dipping so much, since most of the employees (cashiers and stock boys) make squat anyway, and it doesn't hurt the business owner's pocket, but the "triple-dipping", third-party visits, DO bother me a lot. Especially since when you show up, all the employees are working, including the insanely wage-greedy managers (who I try to use sparingly when playing the owner's lot). This does actually subtract money from the business owner, and since you're not in charge of running the business, it works inefficiently, and if you stay too long the business owner will go broke.
I very much like that my business owners can make money off visits from other Sims in the neighborhood, but the way this is set up, they almost never make a profit.
On a related note, does anyone else think that managers are disgustingly overpaid? I almost never call them in because they're so expensive, but you have to have one to make money at home (right?). I am already using relevantwages. This is especially annoying when somebody owns a little kiosk or something. Like your kiosk manager is really going to make $70 an hour!!! Anyone know of any good fixes for that?
Quote from: pioupiou on 2007 August 19, 21:41:32
I may be wrong, but I think it is a MAXIS thing, that was corrected in the OFB Patch : teenagers had the same hours as adults pre-patch (9-17), and the patch changed it so that teenagers work 15-20.
This is true. It was patched.
jsalemi:
Quote from: darcee on 2007 August 20, 10:40:14
On a related note, does anyone else think that managers are disgustingly overpaid? I almost never call them in because they're so expensive, but you have to have one to make money at home (right?). I am already using relevantwages. This is especially annoying when somebody owns a little kiosk or something. Like your kiosk manager is really going to make $70 an hour!!! Anyone know of any good fixes for that?
I think that IS with the relevantwages fixes -- without them, manager's pay is even more ridiculous.
pbox:
Quote from: darcee
Like your kiosk manager is really going to make $70 an hour!!! Anyone know of any good fixes for that?
Squinge has an "employee no quit" hack: with that, you can pay them whatever you think they deserve. I use it for my regular employees -- I haven't had any managers yet, but I guess they work the same in that respect? (Unfortunately I have no idea where his hacks are currently available .. Google doesn't seem to know either, but they surely must be *some*where?)
I also find the ineffective-while-visiting businesses annoying, but I can usually fix things by making the owner selectable and having him kick his employee's asses .. unfortunately that only works when the visiting party lives in a different household from the owner. Ar least with the making-selectable thingy I'm using (Control-This-Sim, Dolphin26 @ mts2). Maybe there's other methods, or maybe BRY would take care of that?
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