Workaholics - how to stop them working

[Miss Scotty]

Since workaholics love to work and ignore their needs (casing serious complaints) my danger level increases.

Is there any way I can prevent them from working past the slot for work in the regime? Right now I have to use the logistics tab to remove all prisoners from working in there which is annoying.

[murgh]

I wonder what happens if you turn the power of your workshop off with a switch. Will they keep roaming around, or will they leave the workshop since no saw or press can operate?

[blóðþyrstr]

@murgh That works. Also, connecting a power switch to a door timer will shut the power off when needed.

[qcs2017]

Originally posted by Cillian Lucka$$ | ☭:

@murgh That works. Also, connecting a power switch to a door timer will shut the power off when needed.

This is usually the most efficient way I found for long-term.
If you want to do it manually, you can send him to lockdown and release the punishment soon afterwards, and I believe it also worked defining the workshop staff only for a short time to break his frenzy, but he will return as soon as he can if you don't take care.

Personally, I found workaholics one of the most fun entries from the "extra reputations" list, being quite harmless in itself and stir up your prison anyway in the long run if you don't care.

PS: The best "old style reputation" is in my eyes "Stoical". You can't do anything with them if they misbehave, and pray to one of the gods that they are at least interested in the Spiritual Programme to get them "calmed" for a few hours. But the "extra reputations" are much more extreme than the "old style" ones, where you need a fun combination to get really interesting outcomes, like volatile deadly skilled fighters or even better stoical fearless instigators, best in combination with a gang.

[Hat8]

Originally posted by Miss Scotty:

Since workaholics love to work and ignore their needs (casing serious complaints) my danger level increases.

Is there any way I can prevent them from working past the slot for work in the regime? Right now I have to use the logistics tab to remove all prisoners from working in there which is annoying.

Work segments split up by freetime segments? Put toilets and showers in their work rooms, canteens and courtyards?