Enron

After watching the Enron movie last week in class, and piecing together all the things that happened made me wonder how something as large scale as this could keep going for so long.

The unethical decisions started from the beginning. The fact that employees were rated based on other employees made their place of work too competitive. When faced with competition and fear of job security any decision seems like a good one. Those people were put under so much pressure that they knew nothing more than to do the wrong thing.

What I would have liked to hear about in the movie was the people who left the company because of their own ethical beliefs. I'm sure not everyone in the company was carrying out the unethical tasks.

The worst part was the whole electric company buy out scheme. The phone conversations between Enron associates was horrifying. I can't believe that people could ever be so heartless and say "burn baby, burn" even jokingly while millions were dying from forest fires in California.

Why weren't these people caught? Was it because Ken Lay was friends with the President? Could that have had anything to do with why Enron was able to get away with so much?

This whole case simply boggles my mind. I can't believe that people would simply throw their own set of ethics out the window just so they could make their bosses happy. That's ridiculous.