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The Sims 4: Growing Togetherintroduces several new events related to your Sim’s job and career. Rather than just going to work every day, improving their performance, and returning home, there are some variables that you may deal with.
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In this guide, we are going to go over every work event that you can find in the Growing Together expansion. Remember, if you don’t have this content, you will not see these work-related events. This will include burnout, rivals, and layoffs. First, let’s take a look at random job performance checks, which can appear in the base game.
Job Performance Checks
While your Sim is at work, you may notice a pop-up appear, giving you someoptions to choose from based on a work situation.
Unfortunately,these are completely random.There is no order to the checks appearing, andthe answer each time will be random as well.For example, you may get the same pop-up two separate times, with each one having a different ‘correct’ answer.
Overall, don’t worry about answering these wrong. While they can lower or raise your job performance,it’s not enough to make a noticeable difference.
Work Rivals
Now, we are to new content from Getting Together. Work Rivals are essentiallysomeone who stands in the way of your path to success within your career.
Rivals arechosen at random; there is nothing that you can do to prevent a rivalry from occurring. While at work, you will get a notification that a workplace rival has appeared. The rival willdisplayed within your career panel menu, right above the promotional tasks that you need to complete.
How To Deal With Your Rival
Thankfully, there aresome things you can do in order to deal with your workplace rival.Below, you can see the two options you can choose from while working. These are found in the work menu that is accessed by clicking on your Sim’s icon while they are working.
Chance to end Rivalry
Increase Social Need
These options are not guaranteed;there is a chance they will not end the rivalry.Try again the next day if this happens.
If you manage tobefriend your Work Rival while outside of work,then the rivalry will disappear as well. This can be done by visiting their home, inviting them out (if they accept the invitation), and pretty muchany way that you would normally make friends.
Burnout
Burnout happens when your Simworks hard doing the same task for too long. As such, this can also appear from other tasks, such as spending a long time to build up a skill.
Work Burnout will happen if you’Work Hard' too many times in a row without taking it easy or taking a day off.If you are having job Burnout, this willdisplayed in your career panel,showing a giant message stating’Experiencing Burnout'.
With Burnout comes negative Moodlets that can lower your work performance and unhappiness. When Burnout is starting, you will have the’Mental Fog' Moodlet,which can eventually develop into the’Brain Block' Moodlet.
How To Remove Burnout
Brain Block essentially means that your Sim cannot use their brain properly, whichmakes them more tense.To get rid of burnout, trytaking a day off from work.If you need to work, you can alsotake it easythere.
Additionally, we suggest doing some new tasks that your Sim doesn’t usually do. For example,if your Sim isn’t artistic, try painting!You could also have your Sim do a relaxing activity, such as visiting a spa.
Don’t leave a Burnout unattended! This cangreatly lower your Sim’s work performance, and make them tense/angry/uncomfortable.
Layoffs
Lastly, we have Layoffs. These arenot as common as the other two events,but they can still happen.
Instead of being immediately laid off,you will get a ‘Looming Layoff’ notification,mentioning that your Sim isat risk of being laid off.Once this happens, you will get the ‘Looming Layoff’ Moodlet, whichmakes Sims more tense.
It’s important to note that Looming Layoffs arecompletely random.There is nothing that you may do to prevent this from appearing, but you can take measures to avoid being laid off.
How To Prevent Being Laid Off
First and foremost,it’s important to not let the tenseness from the Looming Layoff Moodlet control your Sim.Try doing more relaxing activities while not at work, such as doing a hobby that your Sim enjoys.
While at work,we suggest working hard or, at the very least, avoiding taking it easy.Additionally, it’s highly recommended that youdo your daily job tasks and strive to meet the promotional tasks.
These methods can increase your chances of not getting laid off but sometimes, your Sim will belaid off regardless of what you do.In this case, you will now have an unemployed Sim.
You can get a new job, butyou won’t be able to immediately apply for the job that just laid you off.
