The Enron Emails

This fantastic link has been floating around for a while http://enron.trampolinesystems.com . It's an archive of over 200k Enron emails fully searchable.

I spent more than a few hours reading through it, here are some of the better ones and some observations:

-No attachments

-Lots of fwd’s. The marriage Before and After and Taliban TV schedule were popular.


-Ken Lay had a lot of email sent to him, most very supportive. Since we know the aftermath they are a depressing read:

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/134205 - My wife has been with ENRON for fifteen years eversince she came out of U of H . Our hearts bleed ENRON blood and they were wounded deeply last…We are and still very grateful to all the good things that ENRON has provided to our family ( we have three children) and feel so blessed to be associated with such a caring and generous company .

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/176732 - You have more employees behind than you know!! We are all committed to working harder than ever and do whatever it takes to weather this storm.

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/223475 - I just wanted to communicate my disappointment with the events over the last couple weeks here at Enron.

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/246554 - I don't understand how this could have happened. So many decent, hard working, loyal, honest people are being devastated by the results of questionable management, a lack of leadership and the appearance of abject greed among Enron Sr. executives. This is a truly sad state of affairs that will be the subject of so many "B" school projects most of which will focus on our mistakes.

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/149407 - Mr. Lay, the I am not writing this in malice but in hopes that it helps get Enron back the way it used to treat their employees and makes it the number one employer of choice again. I hope you can get back the feeling that I had when I first started there and get the stress level down in your organization for the sake of your employees.

Enron employees had a great sense of humor, this email written in the voice of Andy Fastow was very funny:

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/234292 - I have been impressed by your willingness to look forward, stay the course, ignore GAAP requirements, and maintain your stock purchase payments. Your loyalty and naivety have sustained me during some of my darkest moments. I am grateful for friends, family, and the opportunity to live and work in a free and open society, whereas by rights I should be living and working in an open prison.

-This is satire put together Reliant about a merger between Enron and hell along with the Enron response.

http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/145485

Hey--I thought this was pretty good! Of course we at the evil empire are
proud of being thought of as greedy overbearing SOBs! DF