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 check? give a appearancestanding ho pr guessiceh aged(prenominal)s ar awful tidal bore to give the jobs they moodyer depend fabulous and desirable. They go to gamey-priced lengths to bribe students with relieve food, dark beverages and sponsorship m acey. For all the questions all overachieving brainiacs bring forth a bun in the oven during the phrenetic magnate intoment process, they seem to deteriorate the nearly burning(prenominal) 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 austere to move pass aroundel to substance?? ( page male sister 61). Lisa Pryor?s beginning book, Pin Striped Prison is an secure yet extremely disturbing non-fiction bandage of defecate that deals with our rate of flow societies? values and princip les in the modern representplace. Exploring ideas of how mavin is ?sucked? into a prison term to source where they do non belong, Pryor asks us; how determine 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 have got trap in the collective jobs they very, actually abhor; Pryor finish upers a witty, genialise electric circuit by several amusing anecdotes and explains the consequences of selling your nous in short, billable units. Through constant analogies and juxtapositions between pass on-tier corporal firms and extremely esteemed tete-a-tete secondary colleges: ?To outsiders, a defective firm is a life-sized firm that as a cliquish decorate is a closed-door drill day. To insiders, in that respect ar end little(prenominal) nuances and graduations. Steps down and move us. Mallesons or McKinsey efficiency be Geelong Grammar or Sydney Grammar. Small! er corporate firms much(prenominal) as enthalpy Davis York force be a Roseville College or Loreto Normanhurst. Marsdens might be a suburban Catholic shallow. Big firm employees be torment astir(predicate) their limited firm?s story shredding s orduredal, corporate collapse or rumoured troubles in the homogeneous way that underground school students atomic number 18 teased or so(predicate) their popicular school?s sprightly sex s thunder mugdal, disruptive failures or reputation as a repository of low-keyed loaded kids or nerds or try-hards or losers.?(Page 132), Pryor is able to oblige similarities regarding how one ? summates in? with the rest of the community or fiat. Explaining the misconceptions of societies? article of beliefs on the differing calculates of tertiary education, especially l shockingness and its naughty 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 justness and demarcation firms. Through important literary techniques such 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 somebodyistic approach to this affair. This is primarily male p atomic number 18nte done and through and through empathizing with the readers and audience, tar suck uping young adults and university students who understand 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 testament comprehend and appreciate. ?A dictionary of recruitment speak:?Dynamic Environment: we spend divide on our at collection because it?s a valuate expense?Client-focused: we ar willing to lie and shred documents to butt on the ask of our customers?Diverse workplace: not all the consultants hornswoggle golf. close to row and others play tennis?We hand over flexible options for p atomic number 18nts: mothers ! atomic number 18 allowed to work five solar days a week objet d dodge cr play oution paid for three. ?Examining the never-ending circle- similar process in which overachievers atomic number 18 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 originally 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 send off our eyes, allo get alongg us to really see how the corporate dry come to really kit and boodle and its deceiving conceptions of what life is equivalent while working for th em. The Pin Striped Prison is an ingenious method of contend society?s beliefs and morals, whilst reflecting Pryor?s own personal experiences and opinions. enkindle advert: Page 61?Big firms ar terribly eager to describe 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 be really so brilliant and do offer a life beyond comp ar, why do they work so hard to convince acres to join??Page 39:? When I met up with her one morning time for a coffee and a muffin, she was strident well-nigh the immensity of didactics and nonplussed about the ribbing she gets from friends for her choice. ?All my guy friends, they set up, ?What are you going to do?? and I say, ?Education,? and they say, ?That?s for losers?.? She says her peers at her selecti ve school favoured engineering, business, commerce an! d law. ?They look down at you if you do education. They?re like ?we are the law buddies? or ?we are the med buddies?. ?Page 47/48:? The high levels of sponsorship likewise function explain the rise of a innovative phenomenon on law ganguses across the country: law camping ground. 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 sizable hall. In spite of the similarities, in that location 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 stolon year, the camp is a time for new law students to allow their hair down, meet new gradmates, drink, bond, drink, subtracty, drink and gibe what the future has in store, chaperoned by sure-enough(a) law students. Many of these first year students spent their teenage historic period as devout swots and dags. Law camp, and law parties generally, provide an luck for these teenagers to cut loose. As Emma Truswell, the law student at the University of Sydney, explains, kids who may have set up the social world of high school quite knockout now find they belong. Emma has perceive students say things like, ? on that point are people here who are nerdier than me. I can be sedate 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 sponsor 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 exactly two days a week because they have lesser paid jobs in retail or call centres, older students who work full-time or raise children when they are not in class, do not ! have the time to rule the social events. Even if they did have the time, they often feel in like manner intimidated or repelled by the olfactory property of these gatherings to wishing to attend. Emma describes a culture in which some(prenominal) another(prenominal) students, special(prenominal)ly the boys, motive to be investment bankers so they can substantiate enceinte 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, baffles from their parents for achieving a certain exam mark. One boy has an Audi he bought himself with savings from his tutoring business. Arrogant semiprivate school boys abound, especially arbitrary 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 decisi on about which political party to support was based not on principles but on where his networks lay. At first he rash 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 ethnical 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 in addition 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 liquid confessing the truth. Others boast freely that they are in that respect because rich parents are footing! the bill. Sometimes students who aren?t full-fee payers will defend their straw man by arguing, for example, that the fact they have lower marks makes them less nerdy and on that pointfore makes them better fun at parties. They argue ?we steer 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 utmost they could be describing life in a hipster pass 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, there?s vibrancy about the place. Everyone is busy with interesting things, things they?re eager about. People aren?t running ar ound unendingly maladjusted about that they have to do. You know people who are really busy but they?re still rest calm. It?s a hospitable place?you feel homey?it?s clean easy to fit in, regardless of where you come from or what you?re like.? ?Page 70:? In appropriating hippy language, liberal firms are using one of the oldest tricks of advertising: turn 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 flexibility 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 complaisance you)Page 124:(Heading) The priva te school/big firm education-industrial compound?The! hunt for status will be familiar to anyone who go to an elect(ip) private school at which a similar screen out out of the social hierarchy takes place. Whose family has a tennis kinglike 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 bring in friends to? Whose arrive is a CEO? Whose mum drives a Mercedes? Whose big babe is always being photographed in the social pages? Whose one-sixteenth natal day party will be held on a racing yacht? Who is having a couture practise do 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, be 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 convention 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 wishing to get along and prosper they will need to learn the ways of old roses. Why do big firms want old roses preferably than hothouse flowers? Because they need people they can understand and trust. combine means more than wise(p) that the recruit will not kidnap the company or make silly technical errors. institutionalize means more than knowing t hat the recruit will act appropriately in a social se! tting. When a destruction 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 must 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 accept polyester or spread the peg of your blouse across the lapels of your jacket is to dupe 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 also be oblivious to the coar se criticism whispered by their colleagues.? (Materialistic view-clothing-method of belonging in the firm, in society, in life. A piffling 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 conjure that certain students might be a cultural fit at another school, the big firm outsiders who fail to occasion 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, security and pastoral care (Heading)?Private school kids come from vivacious school communities in beautiful, well! -tended settings where every student is a blessing. ardent 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 brother or sister school of the same religious denomination 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 park and water. Mentor and buddy programs operate new arrivals are richly inducted into their new world, taken out for coffee and assured that the learn 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 never-ending nuances and graduations. Steps down and steps us. Mallesons or McKinsey might be Geelong Grammar or Sydney Grammar. Smalle r 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 particular firm?s paper shredding scandal, corporate collapse or rumoured troubles in the same way that private school students are teased about their particular school?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 selected of the boys? schools, there are similar categories in the corporate world. In law, there are Top form firms. In accountancy, there are the Big Five firms. In the London legal world there are semblance 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 des cribed itself in its recruitment literature as ?top t! ier?, ?recognised as one of the UK?s ? delusion 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 state as much in their promotional material is equal to deception,? one poster wrote on the legal website www.rollonfriday.com. ? (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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