"On the Job" Story Event 2025

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

You put your story in the Romance category. It's my understanding that Romance readers like a slow burn. They want lots of feelings and emotional displays before the characters jump into bed. If you had put the story in Erotic Couplings, you probably would not have gotten that criticism.

I just learned something. Your comment was directed at another individual, but that is a great point. Thanks for that

Yeah, the toxicity of the Loving Wives readership is well known, but in truth, every category seems to have a reader base with their own quirks. Many years ago Tink4Fairy wrote an essay on how to get onto the top lists. It breaks down what the readers in each category seem to want from a story and what they respond to and vote for. It's probably a little out of date now, but I keep it bookmarked and refer to it whenever I'm trying to decide which category a story best fits into. Here's a link if anyone else finds it helpful.

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-break-the-literotica-toplist

 

[Izanami9]

Hi On-The-Jobbers,

I’ve had lots of good response to both my stories, but I was a bit bemused by a couple of recent comments on ‘Hands Off The New Girl’

FrenchTomcat
Oh I absolutely believe that some bosses have absolutely no issue bringing colleagues to strip clubs. Even in France. Hem.

Nah my suprise was more that they went from fun flirting to stick-my-tongue-in-your-folds in a couple hours.

Anonymous
Agree with Frenchtomcat. Way, way too fast for coworkers to end up together. Otherwise a decent story.

I’m absolutely prepared to take this on the chin, and I’ll definitely think about this the next time I write a similar story, but I’m interested in others’ views. In this story, it was a little over three weeks between them meeting and the mentioned tonguing , and another two weeks before intercourse. They were working closely together for most of that time. I had assumed that in our fictional, sexualised workplaces a month of getting to know each other would be relatively slow for this event! Any opinions on what’s ‘realistic’ in the Literotica working world?

Listen. Omgs . ReaLIStic??! LISten. (directed at quoted comments)

I dunno where other people have worked, but I can say with absolute certainty that the kind of on-the-job shenanigans in this story do in fact happen. Frequently. In all sorts of workplaces. Supply closets in hospitals? Check. Personal offices on desks? Check check. Every single-occupancy bathroom in every office complex ever? CHECKKKKKKK. G’ahead, ask me how I know! It would surprise me more if any workplace with multiple employees did NOT have at least a little fuckery going on.

When you remove the natural inhibitions of the workplace itself and go on a trip, like your characters, the likelihood of shenanigans skyrockets immediately. With the chemistry they had? Practically guaranteed. Realistically. Ok the consecutive coincidences that forced them to share a bed are a little unlikely, but coincidences like that do pile up very much like that at times. Still very believable.

A) I understand wanting a writer to facilitate suspension of disbelief, but ‘Hands Off’ is among the few stories that did not require that from me *at all*, as far as I recall.
B) if people want unrealistic, they can read mine, which as you immediately recognized, was a deliberate melodrama - or one of so many others that were great stories that never aspired to be realistic. That’s often the whole point of erotica; it’s FANTASY.

Your story is masterfully told and barely raises an eyebrow (except maybe one about the croc, but I *want* to believe that part)!

LoquiSordidaAdMe made a great point about genre specificity, but it still seems like splitting hairs to me in this case.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I dunno where other people have worked, but I can say with absolute certainty that the kind of on-the-job shenanigans in this story do in fact happen. Frequently. In all sorts of workplaces. Supply closets in hospitals? Check. Personal offices on desks? Check check. Every single-occupancy bathroom in every office complex ever? CHECKKKKKKK. G’ahead, ask me how I know!

Can I, um... Can I send you my resumé?

 

[Izanami9]

Can I, um... Can I send you my resumé?

Oh, please do - as long as you include a head shot

 

[Actingup]

Oh, please do - as long as you include a head shot

This conversation is cracking me up!! I think that the genre readership is a valid point (and thanks @LoquiSordidaAdMe for the reminder on that article), because it leads us to reflect on readers coming to a story from multiple pathways. I don't have the exit polls to prove it, but I think from the comments on the story it's a good mixture of author followers, event followers, and genre followers. We want them all on the same page. So, if some of the readers came in as romance readers, the brief note at the start of that particular story might not have been enough to set expectations. I could have been clearer:

Dear romance readers, in real life, sex happens in workplaces. For more details, ask @Izanami9

@Izanami9, if you've read my 'Monsoon Coming', you'll know that sex happens within as well.

 

[Izanami9]

This conversation is cracking me up!! I think that the genre readership is a valid point (and thanks @LoquiSordidaAdMe for the reminder on that article), because it leads us to reflect on readers coming to a story from multiple pathways. I don't have the exit polls to prove it, but I think from the comments on the story it's a good mixture of author followers, event followers, and genre followers. We want them all on the same page. So, if some of the readers came in as romance readers, the brief note at the start of that particular story might not have been enough to set expectations. I could have been clearer:

Dear romance readers, in real life, sex happens in workplaces. For more details, ask @Izanami9

@Izanami9, if you've read my 'Monsoon Coming', you'll know that sex happens within as well.

Oh yes, by all means direct this sort of inquiry my way! I LIVE to offer enlightenment with such liberating insights.

This convo has given me the least cynical laughter I’ve had so far this week, % unpolluted by white-hot rage as a huge, increasingly rare bonus! Thanks to you both - and the rest of the community too - for giving me some much-needed relief from mocking the homicidal clown car shit carnival that’s currently occupying too much space and time on the world stage. I find it very difficult to turn off the noise sometimes, due to my day job, but hanging out with you all here on Lit spurs my creativity, keeps my sense of humor intact, and indirectly gives me hope. I genuinely appreciate you guys; I was close to burnout before I joined the site.

On that unexpected note of sincerity, I will now go read Monsoon Coming and work on my Pair of Queens for Geek Pride!

 

[Actingup]

There was a period of a few hours between some pretty heavy teasing and the next bit, but that was within a broader context.

Good point - thanks!

Hi - just a thank you to Anonymous, who is an author here and left a detailed and thoughtful comment on my story. Much appreciated.

 

[Jimyfoxx]

Why is this listed as being a current open contest when it closed weeks ago??