No Arnie, she's definitely "running away"! She's a bit of a pain actually so maybe it's just a personality trait!!

before I had to start over I had a woman that had plants as a dislike. Now this was a real pain because everywhere on the island there are plants. Periodically she would be running away other than having to put her back on task the only thing that this trait affected was the time it took her to get to master a job. She took longer than anyone else but I finally got her to scholar.