Don't be a Manager!

Competence didn’t die by accident. It was murdered. And the title “manager” was the perfect weapon.
In this sharp, darkly funny detective-style fable, AION & TOT pull you through a world every worker knows too well — an office where real skill lies cold on the floor, suffocated under buzzwords, fake diplomas, charisma-over-substance, and the self-delusions of people promoted far beyond their depth.
The investigator arrives not to solve a crime, but to expose a culture.
One by one, he interrogates the usual suspects:

• The Paper Manager – armed with a diploma but no mastery.
• The Meeting Manager – who kills productivity with PowerPoints and pointless rituals.
• The Morale Killer – whose cruelty wears the mask of “tough leadership.”
• The Corporate Chameleon – a shape-shifting master of imitation, rising through optics, not competence.

But as the investigation deepens, a darker truth emerges:
these managers didn’t destroy competence — society did.
This short novel blends satire, psychology, and real-world insight into modern leadership decay.
It reveals how titles become slurs, how meaning collapses, and how an entire generation was trained to perform leadership instead of practicing it.
Sharp as a scalpel, honest as a punch, and written with the rhythm of a noir detective story, Don’t Be a Manager is both entertainment and warning — a blueprint for rebuilding real leadership from the ashes of its impostors.
If you’ve ever had a manager, been a manager, suffered under one, escaped from one, or accidentally became one… this book is your revenge, your mirror, and your education.