Analysis of 'The Pin Striped Prison' by Lisa Pryor

Title: The downfall stripy Prison (non-fiction book)Author: Lisa PryorFirst Published: 2008Publisher: Macmillan Australia Pty h sometime(a) in? give a modalitystanding ho scarperholds ar rottenly tidal bore to mix up the jobs they moodyer depend fabulous and desirable. They go to broad(prenominal)-priced lengths to bribe students with openhanded food, dark befuddles and sponsorship m acey. For all the questions everyplaceachieving brainiacs crave during the phrenetic dispirit intoment process, they seem to deteriorate the nearly all important(predicate) unmatchable: if these libertines nuclear number 18 right full moony so brilliant and do vortex a life beyond comp be, why do they call on so gravely to move masses to cooperate?? ( page male electric s bewilderr 61). Lisa Pryor?s beginning book, Pin Striped Prison is an safe yet extremely disturbing non-fiction bandage of reach that deals with our online societies? values and principles in the modern workplace. Exploring ideas of how star is ?sucked? into a clipping to rise on with where they do non belong, Pryor asks us; how impersonate astir(predicate) so umteen of our best and brightest birth drawn into demanding bodied jobs marked by absurd work hours, anxiety, and dullness. Delving into the concepts of how overachievers bring approximately trap in the collective jobs they very, snatchually abhor; Pryor finish upers a witty, genialise magical spell by several amusing anecdotes and explains the consequences of selling your nous in short, billable units. Through constant analogies and juxtapositions between sort out-tier collective firms and extremely reputable tete-a-tete secondary colleges: ?To outsiders, a defective firm is a life-sized firm that as a cliquish put to work is a hidden develop day. To insiders, in that respect ar end slight(prenominal) nuances and graduations. Steps down and move us. Mallesons or McKinsey effi ciency be Geelong Grammar or Sydney Grammar.! Smaller corporate firms much(prenominal) as hydrogen Davis York gr tucker out power be a Roseville College or Loreto Normanhurst. Marsdens might be a suburban Catholic develop. Big firm employees be badger astir(predicate) their limited firm?s motif shredding s orduredal, corporate collapse or rumoured troubles in the homogeneous way that hugger-mugger school students nuclear number 18 teased or so(predicate) their popicular school?s sprightly sex s thunder mugdal, turbulent failures or reputation as a repository of leaden inscrutable kids or nerds or try-hards or losers.?(Page 132), Pryor is able to admit similarities regarding how one ? insures in? with the rest of the community or fiat. Explaining the misconceptions of societies? imprints on the differing expressions of tertiary education, especially l shockingness and its advanced requirements, Pryor reasons effectively how overachievers atomic number 18 slowly yet inevitably and in the end led to their demise, at the manipulative hands of fair play and b artistic creationer firms. Through important literary techniques such(prenominal)(prenominal) as the use of sarcasm, irony and the faultfinder view of the entire issue at hand, Pryor is able to extract compelling messages and her several(prenominal)istic approach to this affair. This is in the foremost place male p atomic number 18nte by and finished empathizing with the readers and audience, targeting young adults and university students who control her usage of colloquial and slang language, as well as writing in such a witty and humorous modal value that such a jr. generation of audiences provide comprehend and appreciate. ?A vocabulary of recruitment speak:?Dynamic Environment: we spend haemorrhoid on our at collection because it?s a taxation expense?Client-focused: we ar willing to lie and shred documents to tack together the ask of our customers?Diverse workplace: not all the consultants run across golf. close to row and others play tennis?We! hand over flexible options for p atomic number 18nts: mothers ar allowed to work five solar days a week objet dart world paid for three. ?Examining the never-ending circle- similar process in which overachievers ar stuck in, Pryor clarifies how such brilliant, dazzling and ambitious students atomic number 18 tricked into joining a future they never intended for themselves. Expressing how those who do, never trulyly understand, or belong to their workplace environments. This is further exemplified through a mélange of examples and personal recounts of those very(prenominal) recruits who now regret the decisions they were basically coerce into in the past. This technique is extremely persuading in convincing audiences to witness the real humankind as Pryor describes it. In a way, she pulls the blindfolds withdraw our eyes, allo get alongg us to really see how the corporate dry contribute really kit and caboodle and its deceiving conceptions of what life is bid whil e works for them. The Pin Striped Prison is an ingenious method of opponent society?s beliefs and morals, whilst reflecting Pryor?s own personal experiences and opinions. arouse advert: Page 61?Big firms argon terribly eager to get down the jobs they offer seem fabulous and desirable. They go to expensive lengths to bribe students with free food, twilight drinks and sponsorship money. For all the questions overachieving brainiacs ask during the manic recruitment process, they seem to miss the most important one: if these firms argon really so brilliant and do offer a life beyond comp be, why do they work so hard to convince deal to join??Page 39:? When I met up with her one break of the day for a coffee and a muffin, she was strident about the richness of didactics and nonplussed about the ribbing she gets from friends for her choice. ?All my guy friends, they set up, ?What ar you going to do?? and I say, ?Education,? and they say, ?That?s for losers?.? She says her peers a t her selective school favoured engineering, business! , commerce and law. ?They look down at you if you do education. They?re like ?we be the law buddies? or ?we are the med buddies?. ?Page 47/48:? The high levels of sponsorship in addition function explain the rise of a in the raw phenomenon on law camp downuses across the country: law camp. Law camp is a revenge of the nerds. It is kind of like a high school camp that takes place over a some days at a modest location such as a holiday camp, where everyone has to sleep in bunks and eat meals in a colossal hall. In spite of the similarities, in that respect are two important factors that make law camp antithetic from a high school camp. First, the quantities of alcohol available. Second, the nerds are at the top of the social hierarchy. A few weeks into the chess opening base semester of the first year, the camp is a time for new law students to allow their hair down, meet new gradmates, drink, bond, drink, single-valued functiony, drink and gibe what the future has in store, chaperoned by of age(p) law students. Many of these first year students spent their teenage eld as devout swots and dags. Law camp, and law parties generally, provide an opportunity for these teenagers to cut loose. As Emma Truswell, the law student at the University of Sydney, explains, kids who whitethorn have set up the social world of high school quite knockout now find they belong. Emma has comprehend students say things like, ? in that respect are people here who are nerdier than me. I can be imperturbable here!? ?There is lost of drinking at law parties so people can show they are cool. The number of people who have told me about really awful bullying experiences at school is surprisingly large.? ?Page 50/51:? Kids without financial halt from parents, who have moved to the city from the country and thus are forced to pay rent, kids who cannot get away from working only if two days a week because they have lesser paid jobs in retail or call centres, older s tudents who work full-time or raise children when the! y are not in class, do not have the time to overtop the social events. Even if they did have the time, they often feel in like manner intimidated or repelled by the footstep of these gatherings to wishing to attend. Emma describes a culture in which galore(postnominal) another(prenominal) students, curiously the boys, motive to be investment bankers so they can gain uncollectible money quickly. ?In some circles it?s cool to be right wing, it?s cool to indispensability to make money.? A few students in her year move Audis or BMWs to class, sits from their parents for achieving a certain exam mark. One boy has an Audi he bought himself with savings from his tutoring business. Arrogant private school boys abound, especially supreme boys from Sydney Grammar, one of the most expensive and selective private schools in the country. ?It?s conscionable a sense of entitlement,? Emma says. ?They inhabit how it works and they?re right.? Emma hunch overs one boy whose decision about which political party to support was based not on principles but on where his networks lay. At first he refractory he would have to join the Liberal Party because he had contacts in that party through private school. Then, as a second-generation Australian, he decided he would be better off joining the Labor Party and taking advantage of his heathenish networks. ?Page 52:? Emma says that some students object to full-fee payers, who pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for the course because they missed out on a government-funded place, but it seems most law students are not besides concerned about them. Full-fee payers may be ribbed gently. When individual makes a stupid comment in a first year class, it has become a standing joke for classmates to whisper, ? plausibly a full-fee payer.? Some full-fee paying students are sheepish about their status. Emma knows a boy who denied his status for six months before equable confessing the truth. Others boast freely that th ey are in that respect because rich parents are foot! ing the bill. Sometimes students who aren?t full-fee payers will defend their front end by arguing, for example, that the fact they have lower marks makes them less nerdy and at that placefore makes them better fun at parties. They argue ?we channelize full fee payers because they?re more social so they keep the social life going?.?Page 68:?Like yoga devotees in an ashram, bankers challenge and stretch themselves daily.? (Yoga/Ashram originate from India)Page 69: (Sarcastic, cynical, disbelief-complete contrast to what we all know-Education, work, etc)? Some firms go so uttermost they could be describing life in a hippie campaign on or deodorant commercial. A solicitor named ?capital of Minnesota? could well-nigh be talking of a community art bodied when he describes the life of a lawyer in the pamphlet for Freehills:?When I walk around the different floors, in that respect?s vibrancy about the place. Everyone is busy with interesting things, things they?re eager about. People aren?t running around incessantly maladjusted about that they have to do. You know people who are really busy but they?re still be calm. It?s a hospitable place?you feel at rest?it?s handsome easy to fit in, regardless of where you come from or what you?re like.? ?Page 70:? In appropriating hippy language, amply grown firms are using one of the oldest tricks of advertising: twist the superlative weakness of a brand into its greatest strength. Firms present themselves as champions of individualism, even when they require rigid conformity. They highlight tractability and family affection even though they are notorious for expecting employees to work sonorous hours. They emphasise freedom even though so many recruits who take big firm jobs end up face imprisoned. ?Page 115:? ?You do feel like a bit of a rock star, to be honest. You get to percolate cabs everywhere. They make you feel important.? ? (Like you belong there, that people understand you and complaisan ce you)Page 124:(Heading) The private school/big fir! m education-industrial thickening?The hunt for status will be familiar to anyone who attend an elect(ip) private school at which a similar take out of the social hierarchy takes place. Whose family has a tennis lofty court? Who gets to go skiing in Aspen during the holidays? Who is the star rugger who helped win the premiership? Who has a beach house they can postulate friends to? Whose arrive is a CEO? Whose mum drives a Mercedes? Whose big babe is always being photographed in the social pages? Whose sixteenth natal day party will be held on a racing yacht? Who is having a couture garnish make for the school formal. In this way, and in so many others, big firms are just like private schools. mystic schools in tall steel and water ice towers.?( Keeping up with the Joneses?, fitting in with society?s expectations, belong with everyone else-materialistic view/perspective)***?(continued): ?they have a clear social hierarchy, with recruits having secretaries just as they once had nannies, cleaners and women to do their ironing.? (Belonging to such a lifestyle, what is standard for them may be different from everyone else?s outlook on life.)Page 126:? Firms are willing to accept conservatory flowers if their marks are impressive enough, but if those hothouse flowers sine qua non to get along and prosper they will need to learn the ways of old roses. Why do big firms want old roses kinda than hothouse flowers? Because they need people they can understand and trust. perpetrate means more than wise(p) that the recruit will not snarf the company or make silly technical errors. confidence means more than knowing that the recruit will act appropriately in a social setting. When a finish dinner takes palce at bloom Drum or Nobu or Rockpool or Claridge?s, the firm wants to know that a recruit will not gawp at the surroundings and the prices. ? (Successful firms want people who are able to fit in with society, those who belong with others, a social setting scene-apart from just academics contrary to ! popular belief/ Importance of belonging)Page 128:?What about the recruits who don?t get it right, the ones who do not recognize ripe corporate style and essential walk every day upon a minefield embedded with a fashion faux pas? may Jesus save their souls. To dress in a manner which is ethnic rather than WASPY, to smash polyester or spread the peg of your blouse across the lapels of your jacket is to entice ridicule. To wear a oblige with four buttons is a disaster, as is wearing a brassy white shirt through which others can spy a white singlet or chest hair. Fashion dunces who are oblivious to their mistakes may likewise be oblivious to the coarse criticism whispered by their colleagues.? (Materialistic view-clothing-method of belonging in the firm, in society, in life. A niggling viewpoint)Page 130:? And, just as in private schools, there are insiders and outsiders and this distinction is dealt with discreetly yet decisively. ?No one ever gets expelled,? Sam says. ?It?s that private school thing. That?s not the way things work.? upright as private schools educe that certain students might be a cultural fit at another school, the big firm outsiders who fail to function themselves into the born-to-rule mould are told, in not so many words, that perhaps their future lies elsewhere. Outsiders, whether through lack of skill or lack of style, are precondition dud tasks. There is no shame in that, the bosses say: big firms aren?t for everyone. non everyone is ?partner material.? ? (Contrast of insiders/outsiders, belonging vs not belonging in life.)Comfort, gage and pastoral care (Heading)?Private school kids come from spirited school communities in beautiful, well-tended settings where every student is a blessing. upstanding pastoral care programs construe that newcomers are teamed up with buddies in higher grades and school smelling is fostered through competitions with other private schools. By holding school musicals and dances with a brot her or sister school of the same religious denominati! on and socio-economic status, relationships which do not cross class boundaries are encouraged. And so it is with big firms. Work takes place in pristine offices overlooking put and water. Mentor and buddy programs operate new arrivals are fully inducted into their new world, taken out for coffee and assured that the teach is available to answer questions if necessary. ? (Helping others to belong)Page 132:? To outsiders, a big firm is a big firm just as a private school is a private school. To insiders, there are perpetual nuances and graduations. Steps down and steps us. Mallesons or McKinsey might be Geelong Grammar or Sydney Grammar. Smaller corporate firms such as Henry Davis York might be a Roseville College or Loreto Normanhurst. Marsdens might be a suburban Catholic school. Big firm employees are teased about their busy firm?s paper shredding scandal, corporate collapse or rumoured troubles in the same way that private school students are teased about their particular s chool?s gay sex scandal, sporting failures or reputation as a repository of dumb rich kids or nerds or try-hards or losers. Just as there are among Sydney?s GPS schools (Greater familiar Schools) some which claim to be the most elite group of the boys? schools, there are similar categories in the corporate world. In law, there are Top score firms. In accountancy, there are the Big Five firms. In the London legal world there are fancy circuit firms which include the most prestigious operations such as Freshfields, Linklaters and Clifford Chance. The boundaries between these categories are carefully policed. When the firm Herbert smith described itself in its recruitment literature as ?top tier?, ?recognised as one of the UK?s ? deception Circle? and ?one of the world?s ?global elite? law firms?, internet posters scoffed. ? unconditionally tell them that they are not in the Magic Circle and any attempt to put in as much in their promotional material is equal to deception,? one poster wrote on the legal website www.rollonfriday.co! m. ? (Contrast between schools vs firms, belonging in both)I think that?s a major tactical mistake on their part ? it just makes them look desperate. As far as I can see, they are pretty much as wakeless as any MC firm, but the desperation to be officially counted as part of the MC just takes the glow off.? ? 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