Sweeping Top Priority not working as expected

Seems like a priority issue. You got too many people with other jobs at the same level priority or take more time to complete.

It's much easier to set dupes up with shorter tasks as +2 and longer tasks as +1 and dedicate them to something.

 

You could, for instance, take Ruby off of Operate (a long task that once started will try to complete), up his Tidy to +2 and remove (default) Burt from Tidy.

You could even put everyone on supply/storage to +0, set Ruby to +1 on those and +2 on Tidy.

Priorities on buildings should only be used if there are similar tasks but you want them done in a higher priority. So, storage at 5 and bottle emptiers at 6 would means a +2 tidy would mop liquids first before anything, +1 storage/supply would move it to the +6 bottle emptier first.

This would give you direct control over mopping and emptying liquids without super over prioritizing things. With so little dupes and so many tasks, you can't really use those +2 priorities just yet without issues like this.

Edit: Nikola was the one to finally pick it up. It's because you had him at +2 farming AND +2 ranching (very time consuming jobs) and they may have a hidden priority multiplier. If you really want him as your storage guy, you would be better off putting storage/supply at +2 and farming/ranching at +1 (they wont have the time to do both jobs, BTW, so pick one). If no one else is at +1 farming/ranching, he will be the only one to do it anyways.

Edited April 22, 2019 by tommytom2k2