You gotta be kidding....

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

If I hire someone to work in my home business I have to manually call them every morning to get them to go to work? I'd like to see that one happen in real life...

Also, since I am running a kind of park home business and charging people for time spent on the grounds rather than sales, it'd be bloody nice if I could assign an employee to gardening full time. I have a lot of flowers, and my poor sim seems to be unable to find time for anything else but weeding and watering.

[Vaalyah]

just buy a "open/closed" sign. Once you come to the lot, it would call employers ;)

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

Well, I have one. But since the sim LIVES on the lot, that doesn't work. He rarely LEAVES it.

[Ghost sdoj]

He can still close the business while he is at home. And you can use the sign to call employees in or send them home as options on the sign's pie menu if it is on a lot where there is a business.

[nappyme_SC]

Here is a site that has some useful items for open for business: Paladin's Place (http://www.simwardrobe.com/)

Click on the sims 2 tab on your left, then click on objects and then click on business facilitators. There's a timeclock that will call in all your employess and send them home at the start/stop time that you set. I hope this helps!

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

Unfortunately not. It doesn't seem to work with home businesses. :) Apparently, the only way around this problem is to manage calling them in and sending them home manually when you run the shop as a home business. Oh well.

[SimWardrobe]

Unfortunately not. It doesn't seem to work with home businesses. :) Apparently, the only way around this problem is to manage calling them in and sending them home manually when you run the shop as a home business. Oh well.

Err... yes it does. I made the timeclock for my own use and the sim that needed it had a home business. Every day the employees showed up like clockwork (no pun intended). I played that particular lot quite a bit and the timeclock never failed to call them in and send them home at the appropriate times. I am sorry that it did not work for you.

[Birgitte Heuschkel]

Well, then that's not it!

I conclude instead that there is a curse on my computer forcing me to occasionally interact with the game myself instead of just watching the events unfold! Woe! :D