TOURNAMENT CLARIFICATION: LATE FOR WORK
The rules for exactly what counts as being "late for work" have been clarified. You're late as soon as the carpool leaves while you're still at home. If you're worried, you can always leave for work manually as soon as you get the 2 hour warning; that should be sufficient to avoid many such situations.

We're also permitting an exception if you WOULD have made it, but your Sim then gets queue stomped to go scold all the teenagers for skipping school.

Finally, there are some clarifications about how this applies to the Promotion After Midnight bug.

https://ts3ac.wikispaces.com/Master+Thief