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January 30, 2002
Maybe if we rolled his crack up in Enron stock certificates...
I woke up this morning to the radio morning show talking about this video of a Q&A with Kenneth Lay the day after the SEC opened its investigation on Enron.
I didn't see the video myself, but I heard the audio clip on the radio and, I have to admit, this had me laughing to get the day started. Surely, it's not a laughing matter that so many people have suffered as a result of the collapse of the company, but sometimes when things are bleak, you have to find humour in little places.
Or maybe I just like hearing Kenneth Lay read aloud a randomly selected question written on an index card that he had obviously not read over in his mind beforehand: "I would like to know if you are on crack. If so, that would explain a lot. If not, maybe you ought to start because it is going to be a long time before we trust you again."
While I'm here, I guess I could weigh in on this whole Enron issue. I haven't been paying too close attention to it since I've got my own worries to tend to without having to wonder if I should have invested money in Enron way back when or the status of people that I don't know in far and removed places. However, something really stinks coming out of Texas these days.
Cheap and easy jibes at the President set aside, the way that the upper echelons of Enron -- by extension, the "company" -- treated their employees was absolutely deplorable. I'm not an old fogey yet, but I can still pine for the days when there was loyalty. You just didn't treat your people that way. Though individualism is something held on a pedestal by many Americans, some unknowingly, there is a dark side to it and that is based in selfishness. People grabbing up material things at the expense of others. Deficit spending. The .com bust. We're becoming a bunch of hedonists.
Alright, that was rather disjointed. I think I need to sit down and hammer this one out a little more.
I'll leave you with this non sequitur: What happens if you use suntan oil while wearing a chainmail bikini in the hot sun? What if someone throws an egg at you?
Posted by KinCross at January 30, 2002 11:56 AM