Location

Office

Hartwell & Associates. The slow-burn corporate route from mailroom to personal assistant.

Quick facts

Manager: [[char:hartwell|Mr. Richard Hartwell]]
Coworkers: [[char:rachel|Rachel]], [[char:derek|Derek]]
Track: office_stage (0-4)
Boss chain: office_boss_stage (0-5)
BGM: outside

TL;DR

The office is the highest-paying mainstream job. You start at the interview, get hired into the mailroom, and climb through four corporate stages. In parallel, Hartwell runs a five-stage private encounter chain.

Two tracks fork right at the interview:

Feminine outfit → standard route, the Hartwell arc opens.
Masculine outfit + suit → parallel male office route, no boss-NSFW arc.

The hub

Office_Hub is the central screen. Choices rotate based on office_stage:

Stage 1 (Mailroom): basic shift work, Rachel lunch event, Derek copy room.
Stage 2 (Reception): client meetings, dress code event.
Stage 3 (Junior staff): performance reviews, supply closet scene.
Stage 4 (Personal Assistant): direct Hartwell access, after-hours work.

How to get hired

Walk in (Office_Entry) after collecting enough Femininity. Two interview tracks fire:

Office_Interview — feminine outfit, standard route.
Office_Interview_Suit — masculine outfit + wearing_suit, the parallel route.

Either way, you negotiate then accept. office_stage flips to 1 and you start working shifts.

Recurring events

The office has a fixed cycle of recurring scenes — they rotate through the shuffle bag as you work:

CopyRoom (with Derek variant) — printer breakdown, awkward proximity.
LunchBreak (with Rachel variant + alone variant) — coworker lunch dynamics.
DressCode — Stage 2+, HR conversation about your outfit choices.
BathroomMirror + Mirror_Preen — slow self-reflection scenes.
ClientMeeting (with Question + Serve branches) — high-stakes scenes that gate progression.
SupplyCloset (Refuse + Submit branches) — Stage 3 escalation.
PerformanceReview — formal Hartwell review, drives boss_relationship.
AfterHoursWork — Stage 4 only.

The boss chain

See Hartwell’s page for the five-stage encounter detail (Touch → Close Call → Closed Door → Under Desk → After Hours), plus the intermediates and repeat cycle.

Tips

Suit route is a real alternative

The parallel male office route doesn’t have the Hartwell NSFW arc, but it’s a complete employment loop with its own progression. Good for runs where you want a steady income without the boss dynamic.

Outfit at interview locks the track

Whatever you wear when Office_Interview fires sets the track for the whole route. You can change outfits later for shift work, but the track is locked.

Performance reviews are the main MR-style stat

boss_relationship (0-10) is the office equivalent of MasterRelationship. It climbs through performance reviews and the encounter chain. High boss_relationship unlocks the later Hartwell scenes.

Hartwell for the full boss encounter chain.
Rachel and Derek for the coworker subplots.
Money for office vs bar income comparison.