A playbook for thriving when your manager sucks — without quitting, crying, or crashing out.
Instant PDF download · 16 pages of scripts, trackers, and sanity-savers for your first 30 days with a bad boss.
This is the book for the person who has to survive Monday.
You did everything right. You were promoted, respected, trusted—and then assigned a manager who can't lead, won't decide, takes credit, dodges accountability, or makes you the problem for theirs.
Inside, you'll find the frameworks, scripts, and sanity-savers Candice has used and taught for a decade—leading people, coaching leaders, and sitting inside HR at one of the largest public employers in the country. This is written for the person who can't just quit, can't be "difficult," and can't afford a career-ending move.
Every bad-boss story fits one of these seven patterns. Once you name it, you stop taking it personally—and start handling it strategically.
Can't let go. Reviews every word. Confuses control with leadership.
Unreachable. Unclear. You're leading yourself and getting blamed for it.
Public humiliation dressed up as "feedback." Fear as a management style.
Rewrites what happened. Makes you question what you saw.
Your ideas. Their deck. Their promotion.
Promoted beyond ability. You're doing two jobs and still being managed.
Hides behind policy. Decisions take forever. Accountability never arrives.
I'm picking 150 people to get the book early, a private launch Slack, and a bonus toolkit I'm not putting in the book. In exchange, you post about it on launch day. That's it — one post.
This is the Bat-Signal for the quiet high-performers, the people-people, the middle managers who are secretly running everything, and the 27-year-olds who already know they need this. If you know someone's bad boss story — or you've lived one — you belong here.
A free digital copy two weeks before launch — read it, rate it, post about it first.
Direct access to me, the other team members, and the real-time playbook.
Scripts and templates that didn't make it into the book. Launch Team only. Yours to keep.
A copy-paste post, a share asset, and a 15-minute ask. That's the whole lift.
Drop your email and the First 30 Days Survival Kit downloads instantly — 16 pages of scripts, trackers, and sanity-savers for your first month with a bad boss.
Inside: Week 1 observation tracker · The 3 conversations to have in Week 2 · HR-safe documentation templates · The “I need to raise a concern” script · The 7-boss decoder
Candice is an HR leader, people coach, and first-time author. She currently leads people work at one of the largest public employers in the country and has spent a decade helping good employees stay sane while working for bad bosses.
She is not an outsider lobbing rocks at HR. She's inside the building, writing the book she wishes she'd had at 25—and that her 25-year-old reports are asking her for right now.
Great Job, Sh!t Boss is her first book. It drops on her birthday, June 2, 2026—which feels about right.