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Before launching my own business, I spent years working in administrative and operational roles across a range of industries. Since then, I have operated Rose to the Rescue as a Freelance Administrator since 2016, serving a diverse range of clients across Canada.
Drawing on my own experience after 20+ years of navigating toxic workplaces, including my own terminations, I decided to stop staying quiet about it.
Surviving & Thriving: A Practical Guide to Workplace Toxicity is my first full-length guide, written for anyone who ever wondered whether they were the problem at work. I’m here to tell you, you weren’t.
The book is for anyone who’s been overlooked, pushed out, or quietly broken down by a workplace that rewarded incompetence and protected bad leadership — while you were the one keeping the lights on.
This isn’t a “just stay positive” book. It’s a practical guide that will show you how to document toxic behaviour, set boundaries that hold, navigate the job search after a hard exit, and rebuild your confidence and your finances.
Every copy also includes the 30-Day Job Loss Rescue Planner — the exact tool I built to help people get through the first month after losing a job, day by day.
I am Ontario-based with Italian-Canadian roots, so you know that means I have a very low tolerance for nonsense, as I live at the intersection of career, personal growth, and Italian-Canadian identity.
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“Being misread doesn’t make you wrong.
It makes the person listening
unqualified to judge you.”
~ Rose
Rescue Reviews
I read this book and couldn't put it down. Well written and will speak to you in ways you couldn't believe. If you are at a job and think you are the crazy one, give this book a read. It will change your mindset and help you on your journey in the workforce. Highly recommended!
Alan
I recommend this book to anyone trying to sort out why some workplaces feel so bad! (and shouldn't). This book explained a lot to me about one toxic workplace from years ago and my reaction to the confusing messages my employers gave me while I poured out hard work and results. Rose! Where was this book 30 years ago when I needed it! However, I highly recommend this book to anyone in this position. It will help you sort through the tangled emotions and guide you to find a way forward. The book is also very well written, with a deep understanding of the issues. Also, Rose's wit throughout had me buckled over sideways laughing – icing on the cake for some very serious issues. It will help you get through the storm. Do buy it, folks! (or buy one for someone you know who is struggling in a toxic workplace!)
Linda
When I read Surviving & Thriving: A Practical Guide to Navigating Workplace Toxicity, it was with my daughter in mind, as she had just lost her job through no fault of her own. Her recent promotion demonstrated her worth, with praise and recognition from management and her peers. However, several months later, the company decided to go in a different direction, which led to her unseemly dismissal. One of the book’s biggest gifts is the 30-day planner at the back, which will help my daughter process what happened and start finding her footing again.
Here’s something I didn’t expect: this book had something for me, too. Last fall, I was promised a promotion with a pay increase by the end of the calendar year. I waited until the end of the fiscal year — still nothing. It’s disheartening to give a company sixteen years of loyalty and not have that worth validated in return.
I read Chapter 13 (Financial Reality Check), and Chapter 14 (Return on Investments Beyond Money) with great interest. I am not getting the right return on investment with this company, and now I’m starting to imagine what my next chapter could look like and how to change my life for the better. Do I stay, or do I go!? I’m getting excited! Ooooo, the possibilities!
Belinda
Rose says out loud what everyone else tiptoes around, and that is a big part of this book.
Plenty of people write about toxic workplaces. Almost nobody names the mechanism: a well-promoted circus with a Ringmaster not at the center of every act, but at the very top! From there, sh$t roles downhill. Rewarding incompetence by the same people at the top who hired, re-hired, promoted or protected them in the first place. Admitting the mistake costs too much to their ego than carrying it, so the capable people eat the consequences, and the circus illusion stays intact.
Rose helps point out what you should notice should you be in a circus but calls out that it all stems from those who call themselves “leaders”. Not just Ringmasters, are they, but master illusionists who, through sleight of hand, are just orchestrating their own Muppet Show.
With Rose’s guidance, you’ll see through the illusion and see the Ringmaster is nothing more than a donkey pulling a travelling caravan that will inevitably break up, a “Jack Ass,” if you will. If you were pushed out, there’s also a plan in her book and a 30-day planner for the worst month of it.
Well done, Rose.
Derek
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