The Workplace Circus
The Workplace Circus · Book Two

Congratulations, You’re the Manager

Your training starts never.

Avery Cole accepts the regional operations role at Harborlight Dental Group expecting a chance to help. On his first morning, his badge opens the front door and little else works as expected. Access is missing, the job has no usable starter kit, and the real shape of the role is scattered across reports, meetings, clinic workarounds, and expectations no one has put in one place.

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Book Two cover: Congratulations, You’re the Manager
“The badge worked on the front door, which was the first and last thing about the morning that worked exactly as expected.”Opening of Book Two
Leadership without instructions

Inside the story

The humor comes from the familiar details: a green dashboard that does not mean the work is healthy, a meeting about the meeting, a budget treated like a crystal ball, and teams trying to care for patients while navigating systems that keep changing. Avery listens to the people closest to the work and starts building a clearer way forward—without pretending that one person can fix everything overnight.

Continue Avery Cole’s story after Book One. The events and characters are fictional composites.

About the series: All three books follow Avery Cole at Harborlight Dental Group. The interview, the job without training, and the threat to his position form one continuing story. The characters and organization are fictional.

Author Jason Anthony Robare
About the author

Jason Anthony Robare

Jason is a published author, operations executive, and procurement leader with experience in multi-site organizations. His fiction draws on the human side of complex work—the office teams, managers, systems, and decisions that shape an ordinary day. In The Workplace Circus, he turns those pressures into character-driven stories with humor, warmth, and a clear-eyed look at leadership.

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