I just noticed a bizarre little nuance to the game. I sent my female Sim to the spa a few hours prior to going to work. The Spa treatment was set to end after my sim should have already hauled ass to work. When it came time for her to be at work the car came to her home even though she was at the spa. It honked for a few minutes .
Amusingly the work tones queued up in her orders. For all appearances it appeared that she was at work and at the spa at the same time. Once her time at the spa ended a taxi came and took her to work. She finished her shift and appeared to be paid for the whole shift. She even received her raise fro completing the opportunity and other things that I had been working toward with her. I would have expected some sort of penalty for being a hour late but apparently this does not occur. I wonder if this would happen again if I sent a sim to a class or something either prior to going to work.
Sounds normal to me.