Finally, career advice that acknowledges reality.
​
An Honest Guide to Work reveals what really determines promotions (hint: it's not talent), how to survive toxic managers without losing your sanity, and why "company culture" is often code for organised dysfunction.
​
This isn't motivational fluff. It's practical intelligence from the workplace battlefield: real strategies for navigating office politics, protecting your mental health, and advancing your career in environments that would make business school professors weep.
​
Ready to stop playing by rules that don't exist? Time to learn the ones that actually do.
Bringing some honesty to the dishonest world of work
RJs Story
R.J. Frank never intended to become a workplace anthropologist—it just happened after surviving two decades in the corporate trenches. Armed with a front-row seat to organizational dysfunction, management theater, and the peculiar rituals of modern office life, Frank began documenting the gap between what companies claim to be and what they actually are.
​
Through countless reorganizations, well-meaning but misguided efficiency initiatives, and the occasional mandatory team-building exercise, Frank developed a healthy skepticism of buzzword-driven solutions and motivational platitudes. What emerged was a collection of hard-won insights about how work really works—not how it's supposed to work according to business school textbooks or LinkedIn influencers.
​
Frank's observations come from the real world: navigating toxic managers, surviving corporate culture shifts, and watching talented people get passed over for promotions while office politicians climb the ladder. This isn't armchair philosophy about leadership—it's battlefield intelligence from someone who's seen it all and lived to tell the tale.
When not writing brutally honest career advice, Frank can be found avoiding networking events, declining invitations to "quick syncs," and wondering why every workplace problem somehow requires a committee to solve it.
​
"An Honest Guide to Work" represents Frank's attempt to bridge the canyon between corporate fantasy and workplace reality—offering the career advice no HR department would approve of, but every employee desperately needs to hear.
RJ writes from an undisclosed location, safely away from open-plan offices and team-building facilitators. All workplace horror stories in the book are true, though names have been changed to protect careers.
