Last night I put a cone cow into the study report area of a new character. When I logged in again this morning it still had seventeen minutes to go and none of the other objects in the study area had been completed either.
Note that I am not talking about the character's desk, but the study area reached through the Character Sheet interface.
Same thing happened to this character the previous time I logged out, and to a different new character last week.
Is this a known bug?