"On the Job" Story Event 2023

[alohadave]

Thanks for running this HeyAll. It got me to write outside my box a little bit.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Yay! My story finally got added! You can't read it yet, but at least it's posting tomorrow.
Thank you @Laurel for adding it!

Now I can stop hyperventilating over its inclusion in the list, and instead get ready for the inevitable disappointment when it's poorly received by the readers!

Hooray!

 

[2soon2no]

This was great HeyAll. I am sure that some readers found me thanks to the contest so that is always good. I think that this was my third and my ratings are getting better. I get more feedback, which is great, except when you get a few city locations a few hundred miles off! LOL, I think I will have to follow through with putting Christchurch back in New Zealand. What's next? Nerds? Summer fun?

 

[Rustyoznail]

The next is National Nude Day in July.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

The next is National Nude Day in July.

Isn't the next one Geek Pride? In May?

 

[oneagainst]

Yeah, geek pride, I've got a couple ready to go.

 

[Rustyoznail]

That's an event. The next competition is NND. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Does anyone know if these stories will be given a special sweep, like contests?

 

[Trionyx]

I recall events being highlighted on the home page for a week or two. Is that no longer being done?

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Does anyone know if these stories will be given a special sweep, like contests?

I think if it was going to happen, the sweep would have been done by now. I don't remember a sweep being done before for an authors' challenge, though I could be wrong.

 

[KeithD]

I doubt the Web site sees the need for a sweep. This wasn't a contest.

 

[EmilyMiller]

That's an event. The next competition is NND. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

On The Job was / is an event too.

Em

 

[KeithD]

There were 41 stories by 37 authors in this exercise.

A bit over a fourth of the stories were set in unspecified offices and didn’t identify specific jobs held.

Specified Office Settings:
A slave rental business, a small college (2), a home and garden store, a small U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan, a sales agency geared to Asian markets, an athletic team support office, a filling station brothel, a building security office (2), a private corporate resort, an IVF clinic, a winery, a real estate agent office, a charter sailboat service, a modeling agency, and a doctor’s office.

Some Specified Jobs:
A power company meter reader, an 18-wheeler truck driver, a nude pizza delivery guy, a paralegal, a banker, a stage hypnotist, a busboy, a bomber pilot, a restaurant manager. a supermarket stockboy, a park ranger, a witness protection bodyguard, a concrete company dispatcher, and a librarian.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Plus, an architect and a vintner (winemaker)

 

[MediocreAuthor]

So is the story list not going up on the front page?

I'm not complaining, I just thought that they always did.

 

[oneagainst]

There were 41 stories by 37 authors in this exercise.

A bit over a fourth of the stories were set in unspecified offices and didn’t identify specific jobs held.

Specified Office Settings:
A slave rental business, a small college (2), a home and garden store, a small U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan, a sales agency geared to Asian markets, an athletic team support office, a filling station brothel, a building security office (2), a private corporate resort, an IVF clinic, a winery, a real estate agent office, a charter sailboat service, a modeling agency, and a doctor’s office.

Some Specified Jobs:
A power company meter reader, an 18-wheeler truck driver, a nude pizza delivery guy, a paralegal, a banker, a stage hypnotist, a busboy, a bomber pilot, a restaurant manager. a supermarket stockboy, a park ranger, a witness protection bodyguard, a concrete company dispatcher, and a librarian.

Ah, so you, like most of LW, had no idea what job my characters were doing either...!

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Ah, so you, like most of LW, had no idea what job my characters were doing either...!

To be fair, did anyone in your story know exactly what your characters were doing? The exact job title, I mean?

I don't think cabinet maker/psychological torturer/latex expert will fit well on a resume

 

[oneagainst]

To be fair, did anyone in your story know exactly what your characters were doing? The exact job title, I mean?

I don't think cabinet maker/psychological torturer/latex expert will fit well on a resume

Just ticking all the boxes

 

[KeithD]

Ah, so you, like most of LW, had no idea what job my characters were doing either...!

I looked into your story on this question more than I normally would look into one of the stories--or will likely do so again. If the office was identified I didn't also pull out a specific job title unless that seemed unusual--or if it was buried in a story that was supposed to be emphasizing this.

 

[2soon2no]

My story had clear job titles and they did their jobs during the story. The place of work was not an office, but a sailboat, which still fit clearly withing the parameters. I enjoyed the writing exercise; not as much as my sailing Captain, but it's hard to compete with sex.
I'm ready for another!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Claims Manager / Insurance. Not going to mention the MMCs job title.

Em

 

[Duleigh]

Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist loading nuclear weapons on a B-52 in arctic conditions. I know, everybody has used that scenario, it's been done to death, but I added sex and it's a little bit more fun.