Shokuba no Onnanoko ni Toushisuru Hanashi

[MangaDex]

 

[KSR_4849]

And remember kids, if you keep whaling on gacha, eventually a gyaru will come up to you and ask you if you want to "invest in her".

Keep on buying those currencies.

 

[GhostX64]

As I was reading the summary, I reactively said, "How about you invest in some bitches!!"
And immediately realized that's exactly what he did.

 

[RandomReader2023]

Interesting mango, bookmarked.

 

[Teddy]

Cute premise, nice characters, interesting art style (like unpolished? But its not? And only for high emotion scenes?)

 

[wolvan]

For Chapter 1 afterwords, how about Assistant Manager? Or Junior Leader? They have authority only when the manage is unavailable.

 

[Monn12]

I actually understand him. Co-worker, 10 years younger (aged less than 20-22) is hitting on me = MAJOR PROBLEMS
Options:
1) Soft rejection - While talking mention you have a girlfriend; Mention you like men;
2) Ignorance - Despite seeing her affection, play the fool - reason being, eventually she will give up
3) Accept - Potential problems with her being a colleague, 10 years younger especially ages under 25 are risky.

But this is a wish fulfillment manga though i do not understand for whom. Shown as seinen but this author shows mixed signals for the target demography. Art seems for men/boys, content seems more for girls/women.
Author is a women so i kinda understand why there are mixed signals but i think this content would be more in tune with female demography.
While some men appreciate female attention generally speaking getting INTO relationship with someone much younger than you sounds like a pain especially girls before 25y. (If you are not an asshole this doubles the stress and problems)

 

[suica]

Why is this tagged as office workers? Do they switch jobs later on?

 

[KSR_4849]

Why is this tagged as office workers? Do they switch jobs later on?

The setting on where they work, which is a book store, is pretty close to that I suppose.

For the record, we didn't add that ourselves, it was the staff's

 

[dollyscurse]

oh she's so cute I love her expressions

 

[harrysoung]

I've switched my tune on workplace romance away from 'don't hookup where you vlookup' to 'bring your whole self to work' as opposed to having two separate personalities that you switch on and off whenever you clock in. The reality is that when you're spending that much time at work, you're more likely than not to form special connections beyond what's required of corporate teambuilding.

Even with that being said, middle-aged means he's at least 10+ years her senior if she's 19. A bit of an oof moment but if they can get their happily ever after, who am I to judge.

 

[Monn12]

I've switched my tune

Its a personal taste, in my experience i've seen too much nuclear waste after people break up. Even friendships can be quite bad. As an example i knew 2 guys who were friends pre-work, one invited the other and they had one of the most toxic relationship.

There is difference between work and outside life. Working people have different ethics for example i might like to concentrate on achieving my goals and finishing work faster while the other might do the opposite or hold different priorities. While we are work-strangers we don't try to dictate or hold expectations from other people.
I know very well that work-place romance is EASY, i was working with some women more than i was interacting with my family or friends (time wise). And somehow "romance" started to bud. Was it really romance? After introspection i realised it's just a basic psychological bias we humans have i.e. close proximity.
Usually if you work closely with someone for a long time you develop feelings for them be it romantic or friendship.

P.S. Work place infidelity happens exactly because of that, you are forced to share more time with your work partner than your actual life partner and some animals confuse it with new "love". Mangas case of course is different since she decided to work there in order to be closer to him.

 

[harrysoung]

Its a personal taste, in my experience i've seen too much nuclear waste after people break up.

I'd still say worth. Best case scenario, you get a life partner. Worst case, you switch companies.

But think about it. HR is basically your matchmaking service that filters for the people who have an education, clean background check, and references. It guarantees a certain level of quality from the company dating pool but people would still rather take their chances blind swiping on anyone in their city. Office romance is goated but I know I'm in the minority in this conversation, especially after #MeToo exposed how common it is for horny old men to take advantage of the young, hot newcomer.

 

[Monn12]

I'd still say worth. Best case scenario, you get a life partner. Worst case, you switch companies.

Spoiler: HR = Work life and stuff

This is highly arbitrary. It solely depends on occupation and company. To my knowledge of what you are referring is something akin to fortune 500 or maybe 1000 companies that have such HR. In majority of cases HR is bad at best they give a call to your previous employer or place of education for reference.(Most people today lie about their CV)

• Education isn't important (doesn't mean that person is smart or not they simply are more educated in that specific field, though you have a slightly better chance meeting a smarter person since education is a factor too)
• Clean background, that's a stretch solely dependant on county or a country. In many places there are strong privacy laws. And for example police records tells you jack shit about the person, some very evil people live with 0 records. Medical record though could be of help if it is related to psychological evaluation but once again privacy laws.
• Reference is mostly good about work related stuff, i knew many competent people but who were horrible partners and friends and vice versa.

Spoiler: Swips and MeToo

About swiping...Agreed, but mostly because that same swiping created monsters out of people it basically amplified the negative sides of urban lifestyle (i.e. illusion of plenty fish in the sea).

MeToo thing is good and bad, mostly bad. Good because creepy and bad colleagues can have serious consequences finally. Bad because women started to abuse it and that abuse was found out quickly, it being: Women tend to call it sexual harassment when someone in their eyes isn't "qualified" enough for them and when someone "qualified" comes they forget about MeToo rather quickly UNTIL that guy drops them like a used up towel.
Basically the problem is that some workplaces have a strict prohibition to romance, once someone qualified comes along they break the rules but if someone unqualified comes they report them to HR. Or there are cases when some unqualified guys try to flirt and instead of clear rejection they are summoned to HR the next day i.e. basically instead of communicating they tattle to higher authority.

Spoiler: Important stuff

Last but not least (maybe the most important part), i value my work and stability more than POTENTIALLY finding my life partner. Even the definition of life partners sounds more like an old comedy today, due to our urbanization and tech progress, complacency (many fish in the sea) and just a general moral degeneration made it impossible (almost) to find a life long partner.
I treat more like a temporary partnership THAT MAY last until death, business and work on the other hand, especially for men is a provider of confidence, stability and ability to gain life partners.
Women tend to date UP and if you meet a colleague of the same level chances are she will not look your way or you would need to put heavy effort to make her look your way. If god forbid your partner get's promoted and you don't, this relationship will automatically become as thin as spring ice (Women don't have generational conditioning of being the breadwinners and they deal MOSTLY badly with their partners, some men on the other hand also deal badly with this and might get more volatile in relationship).
In my humble experience every friend or acquaintance that had a woman of higher wealth or status had been dumped eventually by them for men of higher wealth or status.

I acknowledge your experience and even agree with you to some point. There are winners in work-place romances but you may be the winner while a bigger part are losers. Work place romance brings more cons than pro's BUT once again if stars align it can also be strong PRO. Basically a double edged sword.

Spoiler: Exception

The most i can bring to my workplace romance is sex friends, as long as i meet a sober minded woman who also just wants some excitement during the period of finding someone worthwhile. I'm not categorical of course it may bud to something more but i have a general aversion from that. As an example, I meet a woman of the same caliber as my colleague, my colleague will have to deal with a much higher wall than a woman i meet somewhere else.
P.S. A strict NO to any women in relationship: Boyfriend, husband and open relationship are a NO GO ZONE. If i know some people who are doing this, they will automatically have me as a stick in their wheels. Infidelity of any kind brings chaos to their surrounding's fuck those selfish pricks.

 

[Atmosk]

I thought they'd be reading 10ks together and calculating enterprise value. What a rip.

 

[hymnote]

This is so good.

 

[Darkchung]

Prostitution with several bizarre, extra steps. How charming.

 

[dementati]

I actually understand him. Co-worker, 10 years younger (aged less than 20-22) is hitting on me = MAJOR PROBLEMS
Options:
1) Soft rejection - While talking mention you have a girlfriend; Mention you like men;
2) Ignorance - Despite seeing her affection, play the fool - reason being, eventually she will give up
3) Accept - Potential problems with her being a colleague, 10 years younger especially ages under 25 are risky.

But this is a wish fulfillment manga though i do not understand for whom. Shown as seinen but this author shows mixed signals for the target demography. Art seems for men/boys, content seems more for girls/women.
Author is a women so i kinda understand why there are mixed signals but i think this content would be more in tune with female demography.
While some men appreciate female attention generally speaking getting INTO relationship with someone much younger than you sounds like a pain especially girls before 25y. (If you are not an asshole this doubles the stress and problems)

I think the content is 100% for men/boys as well. The appeal is "be a bland nerd with no personality and inexplicably have a cute, bouncy manic pixie dream girl chase after you for no reason, so you don't have to change in any way, or even do anything for that matter". The wish fulfilment is for sad lonely people around the MC's age, give or take a few years. As for getting into a relationship with someone much younger than you, yes, you're right, that would be terrible... in real life. But this is fiction, so we can just ignore all the annoying realities and just focus on the part where you get to date and engage physically with a young and beautiful girl. That's what wish fulfilment is, a fantasy where good things happen that'd never happen in real life, and bad things don't happen that would definitely happen in real life.

 

[Monn12]

I think the content is 100% for men/boys as well.

You might have a point but MC here is a girl. She is in love with a creep (look at any girls manga, their male of choice are not rarely some sort heavy autists, super stoic or outright predatory), he is quite a bit higher than her (in male oriented manga girls are usually a bit lower or the same height).
I might be wrong too, but i base it of from the pattern and authors gender. (She might just bad at targeting her audience.

Sadly i do not know for sure, since i've been actually pursued by younger girls (one being 16, damn nightmare to deal with) and know for a fact unless you have predatory tendencies or are an a hole those types of relationship are simply pain the arse. (Excluding option would, if you had to bond through some gruesome and tough stuff in live and due to bonding formed feelings)

Actually the opposite is also true with regards to age, i actually like (liked) women older than me but in reality it's such a pain to deal with condescending attitude, she knows better, she has more experience, i know nothing and etc. (At some point you will hear this, some though will hear it constantly). She has more "experience" is basically a myth, while "techniques" can improve some things it mostly depends on her true "desire" towards you, release of chemicals can substantially improve intimate scene and experience seems like that poor family member without a leg compared to mutual desire and willingness.

My point is at some point those wish fulfillments go as off point or full of half truths that it actually damages readers perception of the world.

 

[gooberthefish]

Interesting mango, bookmarked.

everyone loves mango who doesnt (aliens?)