Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison is a 2003 satirical book by Andy Borowitz, parodying corporate self-help books such as Who Moved My Cheese? from which the book gets its title. The narrator, an unnamed CEO serving out a prison sentence for fraud, gives out advice on making it in prison to other corrupt corporate executives projected to be incarcerated for various white-collar crimes.
Who Moved My Tropes?
- Big Fancy House: The CEO lived in an 87,000 square footnote mansion before his arrest.
- Capitalism Is Bad: From page 63, "...mountains of intentionally confusing paperwork and misleading financial statements that are the mother's milk of American capitalism."
- Conspicuous Consumption: Parodied. The narrator was mocked during his trial for absurd spending habits, but defends it as needing to show off to inspire faith in his company.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The narrator of the book and his intended audience.
- Gilded Cage: Subverted. The narrator anticipates the reader is assuming him to be in a Club Fed, but he points out he's actually in a maximum security prison.
- Trophy Wife: Conspicuosa von Mammon, the narrator's 26-year-old wife and a former Miss Benelux.
- White-Collar Crime: What both the narrator and the assumed readership are guilty of.
- Wine Is Classy: Parodied in the section about pruno.
