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Oh man. I knew guys working at Enron (I lived in Houston at the time) when it all unwound. Here's three things: 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — show
by thechao 2y ago
Oh man. I knew guys working at Enron (I lived in Houston at the time) when it all unwound. Here's three things:
1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for themselves, but it was "about the right amount".
2. Another friend was in the accounting group — he had been out of school for just a month-or-so — and had been a tag-along to AA. He came to work one day and his boss looks at him and says "you, me, and X are moving to Switzerland. Today." I didn't see him for years. He had no idea what was going on.
3. I got a lot of swag. The last Enron BBQ had custom t-shirts made. On the front is the Enron logo. On the back are all their mottos? Things like "trust", "honesty", etc. It's one of my most treasured t-shirts of the dot-com era.
- cafard 2y agoAA?
- robin_reala 2y agoI’m sitting on an ex-Enron Aeron right now, one good thing to come out of their original collapse and the following London-office fire sale.
- FredPret 2y agoWow, I knew Aeron’s were good, but 25 years of use?
- robin_reala 2y agoIt’s a chair of Theseus: had two new gas lifts, new arm pads and a new mesh base since I’ve had it. But the good thing about Aerons is that parts are easily available.
- richbell 2y ago> But the good thing about Aerons is that parts are easily available. The tilt lock on mine recently broke. Any suggestions on where to look for replacements?
- robin_reala 2y agoGas lifts I got direct from HM who sent out engineers to fit them: not cheap but I didn’t trust myself to do it. The other parts were lightly used from eBay.
- LeafItAlone 2y ago25 years doesn’t seem like a long time for a desk chair to me. I have an IKEA desk chair I bought (from IKEA) for under $100 in 2010 that is in great shape, other than the fake leather flaking from the arms. I would expect an Aeron-priced chair to last longer than I do.
- black_13 2y ago[dead]
- forth_throwaway 2y ago> 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for themselves, but it was "about the right amount". I wouldn't even be all that mad
- incanus77 2y agoI didn’t have a direct connection to anyone at Enron, but in 2006 I was working at a small Democratic consultancy in Washington DC and we got a new office just off of K Street. After we moved in, we were digging around in closets to find ideal placement for equipment and found a rolled-up blueprint for the building in one of them. The details showed that it had been built out for Enron lobbying. We joked that we were going to be haunted by the ghost of Ken Lay — the former CEO of Enron — as he had just died and it was the top of the news.
- whtsthmttrmn 2y agoYou must place the blueprint on his grave, lest you be cursed forever!....yarg!