Representations of Women' s Workplaces in Contemporary Indian Writing in English Working Women, Re-working Space.

He made it clear that if a tool went missing the prisoner whose chit occupied the empty space and the shop clerk were both going to the SHU. It was the only rule that appeared to matter to him. One day a drill bit went missing and we tore the shop and the truck apart looking for it while he watched, the clerk on the edge of tears, until finally we found the twisted piece of metal rolling around in the lid of one of the toolboxes. DeSimon was relentlessly unpleasant to many of the prison staff as well, who called him БЂњSwamp YankeeБЂ«(and worse). He may have been widely disliked, but he was also the head of the institutionБЂ™s union chapter, which meant that management let him do as he pleased. БЂњDeSimonБЂ™s a prick,БЂ«one of the other shop heads told me candidly. БЂњThatБЂ™s why we elected him.БЂ«Under the PrickБЂ™s indifferent tutelage, I learned the rudimentary basics of electric work. A group of totally inexperienced women working with high voltage and nearly no supervision did yield moments of broad comedy and only occasional bodily injury ...»