Bixxti pokes and squeezes the purple Sym's bloated belly, "oh, squishy, squishy! Big tummy balloon!" She slows for a second, thinking, then turns to you, "Hey lab coat?"

You look up from your work, "yes?"

She pushes on the Sym's belly, "why are the Syms puffy all the time now?"

The glitch is still going on and you're sure the team involved has too much of an ego to want your help solving it. The quick fix in the meantime is for all the Syms to simulate breathing, but give out slightly bigger exhales than inhales to keep the pressure down and they decided to play it safe and keep a bit of a "buffer padding" in place to make sure they're not exhaling themselves skinny to non-existence. So yes, the Syms are staying a little rotund for the foreseeable future, but at least they're back to being assistants and such like before.
Their predicament will continue until the holographic team decides to bite their pride and go check out the atmo tank in the storage facility that's leaking into the Syms like you told them to.
Rather than explain all this to her, you just flatly tell her "they're broken."

She looks a little sad but then brightens, her ears perking up, "oh, Bixxti can help!" she says, resuming her rubbing. Her pace seems to be much gentler than before, almost like she's trying to soothe the Sym's stomach.

You continue your paperwork, making sure to keep her in the corner of your eye the whole time.
Babysitting isn't really your thing, but it gives you the rare opportunity to slow down and relax for a few hours, so you usually volunteer; at least she's well-behaved.
Hybrid children are rare and Bixxti's the only one assigned to your team, so thankfully it doesn't burn up too much of any given week; just enough to get some rest from your hectic repair work, but not too much to build a nasty backlog to return to afterward.