More Awesome Than You!

I've come across an irritating new "feature" while playing University today. My Sim was very low on simoleans, so I sent her to a community lot to work as a barista. The problem is, she wouldn't stay working. Every time some bozo on the lot wanted to bug her, she'd immediately cancel being a barista and change out of her uniform to recieve the interaction. I'd cancel the interaction and send her back to the espresso bar. She'd change back into her uniform and work for about 10 seconds before another Sim wanted to talk to her again and she'd cancel the interaction again. This cycle went on about eight or ten times before I finally gave up and sent her home.

Is there a way around this or am I stuck with having her perform for tips and hustle pool?

This has been around since at least OFB that I can remember. I actually send my Sims out to work as baristas or bartenders because every time the Sim comes back to the espresso machine from a canceled interaction, another pay cycle gets added on. With enough interruptions, Sims can pull in over 1000 Simoleons every 10 minutes or so. I agree the constant monitoring of their queue is frustrating, but I don't mind the extra spending cash.

Try hitting Macro Concentrate? Does that help any? Also if random bozos are inappropriately harassing you, try "nopedostalkers". It should curb this tendency to bug random people, so they'll go pester their friends instead.

Concentrate did not help. I didn't have nopedostalkers so I put it in, and that doesn't seem to do anything either. College townies, trying to cool down after working out on the treadmill, were still able to cancel her job and start water balloon fights with her.

As an experiment, I lined up my Sim's queue with eight "Work as Barista". The first time, she went through all of them (immediately canceling out one to get to the next one) and got a lot of money. The second time, the off-duty barista interrupted to bug her and managed to cancel out every last one all at once.  >:(