too funny!
I don't know about $150 though...

I sent this in earlier today under the headline "Enron ethics for sale." and an OBVIOUS tag.

These have got to be the poor schmucks who didn't have the insider info.

I think I'll put over %75 of my 401k into one place, yeah that makes sense!

I bet if you talk to an Andersen employee, they'll tell you it's tax deductible!

Some jacka$$ paying $200 for a 64-page booklet is really going to be the final ironic kick in the balls to this entire Enron saga.

what, may i ask, is the farking point of owning one of these books?

how about i print up a paperback ledger that says "fark.com" 2,000 times on each page.. 250 pages long.. opening bid, $150..

anyone... anyone... anyone?

Hmm. It's hard to tell if this is more/less funny than selling the X-box BOX. I just can't decide...

Fishbait:

It's the irony of it all. Some people are speculating that it will be worth some money waaaaaay down the road. A code of ethics manual from a company that went bankrupt (and put many a foolish stockholder in the poor house) basically because they didn't have any ethics.

That's my take on it.

I'd say it's funny in another way.

The Xbox BOX was a fraud.
This is, apparently, just what it looks like. Disgruntled ex-employees getting money by selling off their now-defunct Employee Handbooks.

So that, of course, any joe blow that cares to buy one can read up, and figure out exactly HOW MANY of these "codes of conduct" the big cheeses broke.

Man! Enron screwed three of my friends in Houston - One year ago they were on top of the world now they are unemployed! I hope those Bastards go to prison!

Djaj: I like your tag better!

fishbait: It's certainly no worse than buying an X-box box.

When I used to work for SBC, they had a truly hilarious ethics handbook. One passage said that my "choices and actions impacted not only my fellow employees and the company, but the entire planet."

I mean, I knew SBC was POWERFUL, but damn...

i am really not sure if these are really being sold by employees - i bet you could find it somewhere online whatever farking boring

Enron ethics book, never been read before!

Independent for President in 2004.

A plague [Enron] upon both your houses [Republican & Democrat].

I still have mine unopened.

Check out this Enron mouse pad that one former employee's *father* is selling:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1064590008

Here's the location of the hilarious image:

http://home.hot.rr.com/finds/Enron%20Mousepad%202.JPG

very funny indeed! lmfao!

Even with the lowest bid winning a person will get most of their money back on their stocks/bird cage liners.

god damned ebay....

And capitalism marches on.

El Cerdo Loco, Enron's employees didn't have a choice; they were forced to invest most of their 401K back into the company. The Executives were not bound by the same rules, and sold off their stock at a time when they were the only ones who knew what it was really worth. THAT is criminal.

Also, from yesterday's SF Chronicle:
"Enron paid no income taxes in four of the past five years, using almost 900 subsidiaries in tax-haven countries and other techniques, an analysis of its financial reports to shareholders shows. It was also eligible for $382 million in tax refunds from the Treasury.

The company used strategies common among businesses to avoid taxes. It also used some unusual methods -- including the creation of 881 subsidiaries abroad, including 692 in the Cayman Islands, 119 in the Turks and Caicos, 43 in Mauritius and 8 in Bermuda. "

You all smell that? The sweet smell of capitalism at its best........mmmmmmmm. It smells just as sweet as a rotting corpse left out in the sun for a couple of weeks.

Yes that is it, no restrictions on commerce, only the best can occure when buisnesses have no rules. They do so well with the few they already have.

692 in the Cayman Islands and the government is investigating them NOW ... Hmmmmm ...

At least all these Enron employees are finding new ways to make money. I mean, just do a search for "Enron" on eBay, over 1000 results. How else could you sell a golf ball for $30?

I need to try auctioning off my old EDS Employee Handbook, the one with Ross Perot's picture on the first page.

Ah, good times...

The Enron handbooks are probably being bid up by liberal editorialists who want to use excerpts to throw the actual conduct of Enron executives into sharp relief. Damn media!

Or maybe the FBI accountants -- a little souvenir, something to help show the kids what daddy does at work. "Look son -- there's the guy whose balls I nailed to the wall back in 2002."

I believe the pages are blank, or written by lawers at the virginia school of law.

These books must of been the only thing that made it out of the huge fire that hit ENRON, oh wait that fire was selective and only on the books that could get them in trouble.

El Cerdo Loco: My understanding is that Enron forced them to do that in order to participate in the company savings plan. They of course susequently blocked employees from liquidating their Enron stock that fell under the plan.

I'm pretty tempted by this, having experienced the proverbial "Enron assfarking" first hand. I'm loving every minute of this.

Damned filters, it just doesn't have the same ring to it once they've censored me.

Mawam? Oh, Mawam?

Wonder how many of them are described as "Mint condition! Never Opened!"?

This proves why socialism will never work. [/sarcasm]

Actually Enron never forced the employees to put it all back into Enron. All the management did was convince the empoyees Enron was a great thing. Enron's employee contributions and matching funds are about the same as any other company. Companies can require that the funds THEY put in and match go into company stock but the rest is up to you. Where Enron really went south was that they hid the problems and upper folks bailed on the lower folks while the bailing was good. I have a friend who took a big soaking on this and her financial adviser had her doing other things with her money rather than all in one place but even after the failure he said company practices were legal, it was individuals in management working together violating policy that screwed the folks.

Does this ethics manual have a section on how it costs to get the president to suck the corporation's dick?

Walkman, they weren't forced to invest all of their 401(k) back into the company, they were however forbidden to take it out when the company was failing due to "accounting changes"...

3Horn

hehehe...it's funny 'cause its...well, it's just funny.

sell me your women

There's all sorts of Enron junk up for sale on ebay. It seems they put their logo on all sorts of trinkets. Here's an interesting item;

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1064918200

"MINT condition, (NEVER OPENED!!). "

No wonder they went bankrupt!

The problem wasn't just that they had all the 401k in Enron, but when the chapter 11 was announced, they weren't allowed to dump the stock! Enron changed firms for handling the 401k and the employees were told that they couldn't make any changes to their plan at this time. That's what sucks.

Damn I threw my stupid Enron ehtics book away like 2 weeks ago!! Stupid stupid me. You should have seen the people in our office scamming anything that said Enron so they could put it on EBAY... What a joke this company has become and to think I used to jokingly rub my freinds noses in it that I work for one of "the" best companies in the world, silly me.....but hey I am typing this on my "free" computor that Enron bought me...

Exploitedclass - "You all smell that? The sweet smell of capitalism at its best........mmmmmmmm. It smells just as sweet as a rotting corpse left out in the sun for a couple of weeks. Yes that is it, no restrictions on commerce, only the best can occure when buisnesses have no rules. They do so well with the few they already have."

The economic gains by capitalistic systems during the last two centuries are not only a matter of historic record. They are unprecedented. The Execs at Enron may have been cock-su<kers but that doesn't mean that Capitalism is a failed system or an inherently corrupt system. As for rules I would venture to guess the number of federal and state laws that have to do with the regulation of business is staggering.

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Whoops! Forgot to turn off the Japanese IME.

Anyhow, I can see the Socialist wannabes beating this to death for many, many threads to come.