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Earning the Laundry Stripes: A Woman's Adventures in Hindustan Lever's All-Boys Sales Club
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300 pages, Paperback
First published January 30, 2006
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October 31, 2012
I obviously went for this book after reading her second book and it turned out to be a great decision. This book is a perfect take on campus life along with placement fever and then the first job blues which happens with almost everyone! This book becomes special also because it shows how a girl(despite being from IIM-C)faces all kinds of challenge in an all boys club at HLL.
Noor Bhalla, the protagonist of the book goes through some unexpected adventures during this tenure and lands herself in a sales job at HLL. A well educated lady from Firozpur, Punjab lands up in Nagpur, Maharashtra for her first sales stint as a TSI and there begins an adventurous roller coaster ride for her which sounds so true. Once you get the hang of the book, it turns out to be a complete page turner, that is witty and practical at times.
I must say that it does look like an original take of her own experience!
To conclude, we are going to hear more of Manreet in coming years for sure.
Noor Bhalla, the protagonist of the book goes through some unexpected adventures during this tenure and lands herself in a sales job at HLL. A well educated lady from Firozpur, Punjab lands up in Nagpur, Maharashtra for her first sales stint as a TSI and there begins an adventurous roller coaster ride for her which sounds so true. Once you get the hang of the book, it turns out to be a complete page turner, that is witty and practical at times.
I must say that it does look like an original take of her own experience!
To conclude, we are going to hear more of Manreet in coming years for sure.
December 21, 2013
This was a nostalgic book and fun to read, especially in the beginning where the whole placement fever is described. An MBA's first stint into the real world is such a typical eye opening experience - its scary, unknown, nothing like what they teach you and completely relatable.
Reminded me why I didn't want to do sales :-)
I wasn't a big fan of Noor Bhalla though - the author tries to portray her as a normal person with flaws, but something was missing and I could not warm up to her.
Though this is the author's first book, it could have been better written, it's almost like a journal of her first two years at HLL. There seemed to be too many similes and metaphors being used to describe everything and I kinda got tired of that.
Reminded me why I didn't want to do sales :-)
I wasn't a big fan of Noor Bhalla though - the author tries to portray her as a normal person with flaws, but something was missing and I could not warm up to her.
Though this is the author's first book, it could have been better written, it's almost like a journal of her first two years at HLL. There seemed to be too many similes and metaphors being used to describe everything and I kinda got tired of that.
March 17, 2017
When I started off with this book, I couldn't help but compare it to 2 States. The IIM setting, the girl working in HLL and the boy in a foreign bank, the North-South Indian divide in the families.
The main thing I disliked in this book was that there was never any excitement. Everything was written in the past tense. Even the scene where Noor is trapped in a vehicle with a crocodile snapping at her heels seems boring because it is written AFTER the attack, I never felt any anticipation while reading.
There was also a lot of use of other languages and this confused me.
The author loves writing everything in bullet points.
There was no major story arc in my opinion.
Overall, I was not in the right frame of mind to enjoy it.
The main thing I disliked in this book was that there was never any excitement. Everything was written in the past tense. Even the scene where Noor is trapped in a vehicle with a crocodile snapping at her heels seems boring because it is written AFTER the attack, I never felt any anticipation while reading.
There was also a lot of use of other languages and this confused me.
The author loves writing everything in bullet points.
There was no major story arc in my opinion.
Overall, I was not in the right frame of mind to enjoy it.
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