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ELLIS DEE FICTION

The Great Operational Fuq-Nado

A Competent Man’s Descent into Corporate Enlightenment

A competent operations manager faces a workplace where policies eat Tuesdays, hallways relocate, and bureaucracy becomes weather—then learns that saving every shift is not the same as fixing the system.

Published September 7, 2026 — available on Amazon

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  • Author Ellis Dee
  • Genre Workplace satire / humorous fiction
  • Audience Adult / general fiction
  • Format Kindle ebook
  • ASIN B0HJ2Y99XC

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When bureaucracy becomes weather.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Nothing was on fire yet. That distinction mattered.

Cal Mercer knows how to keep a bad shift from becoming a catastrophe. Find the valve. Name the condition. Do the next real thing. Then the mop bucket develops concerns.

At Continuum Operational Services, policies eat Tuesdays, hallways relocate, wellness huddles collide with actual emergencies, and the Continuity Desk starts behaving like it has plans. As forms multiply and reality becomes suspiciously procedural, Cal and his crew—Nia, Bree, Omar, and Ava—must confront an operation that feeds on everything nobody will name.

Cal can probably save the shift. The harder question is whether he can stop making himself the answer to every broken system.

The Great Operational Fuq-Nado is a sharp, strange workplace satire about competence, bureaucracy, responsibility, and the quiet revolution of telling the truth about what happens next.

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