FERC: Western Energy Markets - Information Released in Investigation. I got this from an old Salon.com article. Apparently, 92% of all enron emails are available in a searchable database on the net for everyone to read. If you have the patience to read through all of it (good luck) you can definitely get a glimpse of the the culture and environment that the higher-ups (executives) fostered. You also get a glimpe of what they valued. Much of the synopsis on Salon.com provided clues to "who got in bed with who" -- figuratively speaking -- such as the executives with the Bush-Cheney campaign. I particularly liked the one email at the end of the article:
To: Ken Lay, et al.
From: Another One -- exenron@hotmail.com
Date: Nov. 30, 2001
Subject: Thank you all very much for your support -- NOT!
I genuinely believed in Enron and the Values of the company. You demonstrated that that trust was misplaced and worth nothing.
I particularly like your adherence to the core values -- you "respected" us, you "communicated" brilliantly with us, your fucking us over was "excellent," your "integrity" was without question.
You load of bastards -- you screwed us all and got on the profits of our sweat. I hope that the board and upper management rot in jail and never see the light of day again -- apart from when you are exercising in the open prison yard in your shackles.
-- Just Another Fucked-Over Ex-Employee
That just about sums up how I feel about Enron (even though I am on the East coast and haven't been inconvenienced by its downfall...yet).
Just the hell of it, you can search through the email database and see what was said, by whom, etc. Click on the "Search iCONECT 24/7" URL in the link above. Follow through and choose the email database. Open the selected database, and have fun. I happened to search for the word "f#$ked" and my query resulted in 3555 emails. Quite a lot of usage of that word by Enron, if I may say so -- I would venture a guess that it was prominently used during the last days of its existence.
Posted by johnvu at October 26, 2003 03:39 PM