My sim hired a butler and tried to make friends with him. The guy is just plain mean. My sim is at -1 in the relationship. Now the butler keeps feeding my infant 2 or 3 bottles in a row. Just stands around with dirty dishes, bottles and diapers everywhere. I dismissed him, but how do I fire him? Lol, this is just too much. Taking out on the baby.
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This last family I created and am currently working with actually got the first competent nanny I'd ever seen. I was sorry when the toddler grew up to be a child and the nanny wasn't needed anymore (except once when there was an overlap between the parents and they'd both be gone for one hour without supervision for the child. And now that she's a teen, she helps out with her little sister, and the parents work opposite shifts, so there is always someone available to look after the toddler.
Anyway, I would suggest trying to rehire the butler and see if he improves. The worst that can happen is that he doesn't and you just have to fire him again. Then you look after the kids yourself.
When you have a baby or a toddler in the house, in my opinion it's best to avoid hiring a butler during that time.
Butlers tend to interfere with too many bottles, holding them or interrupting when a parent is trying to teach the child to talk, walk etc.
I try to work around taking care of the child with parents days off/ holidays due or the maternity leave days.
Oh, interesting. I thought the butler was like the nanny. Taking care of the kids, but not necessarily interfering when the parents are doing something with the kids. Sorry; I guess I gave bad advice based off my experiences with the nannies. I don't have apartment life, so I have no experience with the butler.
I appreciate you have had a bit of a bad experience but it can be more convenient to have a butler who can do all jobs around the house; it is just the baby-sitting function that seems to let him down!
Butlers are a great investment for your lot - apart from greeting guests and working long hours, they will make meals for the family, clean, garden, repair and are on the lot for the majority of the day to fulfil an adult looking a child Sim when parents are at work.
Although I am recommending having a butler, it is a good thing for Sims to take care of their own home and they will build skills e.g. cleaning, mechanical doing all the odd jobs that come up!
I always find the toilets in the college dorms the most nasty!