Creepy Enron promo video

[MsMarciax]

"It is creating an open transparent market that replaces the dark blind system that existed..."

"Unlike our real lack of company transparency and woeful ability to blind you with deliberate lies about our real crooked business intentions" It should say also in the video... lol

[exenrontexas]

The only part of ENRON that ever made real money was Northern Natural Gas. Dynegy was going to buy ENRON but ENRON needed cash so Dynegy put up $2.5 B but demanded that NNG be put up as a contingency if the ENRON books didn't look right. Of course, they didn't &NNG went to Dynegy & Dynegy fired Chuck Watson, the man behind the deal. The new CEO, Daniel DIenstbier had been CEO of NNG and Ken Lay forced him out of Enron. Dienstbier then sold NNG to W. Buffett who moved it back to Omaha.

[exenrontexas]

I worked at ENRON and left when I saw the blatant criminal acts they were engaged in and I told LOTS of people but without evidence it was just hearsay and I was laughed at by some, mostly Texas politicians and civic leaders who were sucking at the ENRON teat. I told it to some bankers and some of them said they knew or suspected it. One of those banks lost six BILLION due to ENRON and ended up getting bailed out by BUSH. Ken Lay had been a director of that banks predecessor.

[Duck4212]

The fruits of Reaganomics ....Enron ...and the downfall of Western Economics

[thehoaxbuster]

I'm quite certain that Enron had some of the best marketing strategies ever. These commercials, while creepy, were works of art.

[geckoslick]

0:19 Who knew those rats in the suits would be such an apt metaphor

[foxboy1618]

ask why, asshole

[vaibanez17]

"open transparent market place"...yeah like turning electrical units in California into a commodity and then shutting down the power in California for hours at a time so that when you turned the lights back on, the people were paying up to 4 times the price per unit of electricity on their electric bills compared to before the "artificial brown outs." Thanks a lot you jackwagons, I hope you burn in hell.

[EV150]

These people sit there and jack their phat dix all day every day and scorch the common man! Fuck him!

[EV150]

Enron is fuckin fucked!

[zahablog]

lol an 'open, transparent market place'

[x170063]

Gee, when is this company going to offer an IPO? I may wanna buy stock.

[Zoomer30]

"promised much but delivered little". Kinda sums up the whole damn company. Kens lucky he died, he be rotting in jail right now.

[ridewave444]

These little dumbfucks were really full of themselves weren't they? Same old stupid story.

[dumont1957]

Someone should have "pushed the button" to jettison you to the nearest BFI bin, Mr. Jailbird Skilling.

[gopconservative78]

Greed is Good.......

[vaibanez17]

How ironic is it that Enron's company slogan was "Ask Why?" and nobody did for 16 years...

[lorigee2]

Why? Cause I have water derivatives that's why and I don't recall a thing.

[scottyf44]

Why are the people in this commercial standing on their desks? I honestly don't get it.

[jamesalan123]

gotta love that jeff skilling, real class act

[blaketrent]

dude Sims 10 has nice graphics.

[Ballerfella2007]

These commercials are creepy now from 10 years ago.

[horsinoff]

they were creepy back then, too.

[exenrontexas]

I have heard some criticize the employees for investing their saving in the ENRON ESOP. What those people do not know is that for many ENRON employees, Ken Lay FROZE the ESOP for...THIRTEEN YEARS. La "borrowed" $450 M from the ESOP to cover up his mismanagement in the late eighties and froze the ESOP for seven years. IF you left the company they could ignore your request for distribution for 1 1/2 yr and then pay out only 20%/yr for five years. ERISA law allows this. THAT is criminal.

[INDICTMENTCOURT]

I found them GUILTY in My Court - INDICTMENT COURT, where your always GUILTY !! See my Videos, if your CORRUPT or a FRAUDSTER you'll end up in my Court no matter what !

[AcrylicOnion]

...what the hell

[saywatThafuckiwant]

GOT FEDERAL TIME?

[gregarious24]

I've watched all these commercials now, and after thinking they were so inspirational 10 years ago, they now enrage me.

[espinaca79]

Were they inspirational? I thought they were very aggresive and too global-economy oriented. No human values were shown whatsoever! What really frightens me is the fact many companies took Enron's work ethic, philosophycal vison and knowhow as an ideal. Scary.

[BrianASoto]

A lot of stockholders were asking "why?" in 2001.

[jxsilicon9]

LOL!

[CroswhiteK]

@BrianASoto *Shareholders

[AW2378000000000000]

Probably one of the best marketing departments at any company in the last 20 years, maybe longer.

[sddallas]

I remember when this came out and i thought it was so cool. Now you are right---------creepy

[richd506]

He's down there saying "why, why, why!?" just like in the commercial.

[wolfzier]

i wish lay,skilling will burn in hell forever.

[gflorko]

They certainly should. But, Skilling is still in da slamma takin it in da sludge and I'm not totally convinced that Lay didn't fake his own death.

[chestermolester33]

skilling IS NOT taking it up the ass in prison...he is in a white collar resort enjoyng continental breakfasts and playing tennis. also, im sure given his monetary value, other prisoners are suckling at the power teet....so, if anything, he is "in charge" of the ranks in prison....

[gflorko]

Yeah. I was just speaking kind of figuratively, you know? He's incarcerated nonetheless. He was the CEO when the corporate policy was made that low level employees could not move their 401K money out of company stock while top execs of the company were cashing out tens of millions in company stock options. He deserves every day of his long sentence. That's for sure. Plus, you can just tell by looking at the guy's face that he's a major prick.

[BobForehead]

He's doing a TedTalks lecture circuit with Michael Milken.

[aidengrandfield]

i dont agree with the description of this video. Not everyone who invested in enron were snobby. What about those employees who invested their money in the state owned electrical company that enron bought and then locked away from their shares until the price crashed. Thats not snobbery.

[meggerhatter]

I want all you comments to be kind to GW. Yes, he is a corrupt immoral bag of shit, and yes a coward who used daddy to keep him out of combat, and a pussy who uses others to take his falls, but remember, just remember he loves Jesus. And didn't, after all, Jesus teach that we should fuck the poor, start wars, lie, spend money we don't have and fuck the poor (thats a double must do). So if you are in your trailer and gas is just too much to go for a drive, remember, that is what Jesus would do

[haobio]

I really want to ask why.

[pheasguide]

Jack we have a fascist in office now and its not working. Check out Bush's granddaddy

Prscott Bush should give you a little insight into what is going on. New faces different times and a better boogieman to blame it on. The Nazi's used the brown shirts

GW uses the evil doers towelheads. same MO its just plain sick. burn the Reichtstad blame it on the opposition gain more power throw in the patriotic tones and walla presto

the sheeple follow. Towers-bin laden bremer flight 93 get it yet.

[Jackalman99]

This is the company those dicklicks Bush & Cheney were involved with right? Anything those ass holes are involved with is going to be weird, and devilish on account of the FREEMASONRY & the Skull & Bones Society.

BUSH SUCKS ASSES!

HAIL GRIMES!

ELECT JACKSON GRIMES US PRESIDENT 2008!

VOTE FASCIST 2008!

(if the Bush baddies allow an election)

[bluecheese202]

Why have you named the video as "CREEPY" but in the description you describe it as "SEXY"?

[RicardoDiaz]

Because you touch yourself at night!

[dimo123456789]

hahaha

[Shipoopi007]

@bluecheese202

What an oxymoron

Their logo is "Ask Why"

Yet nobody did leading up to the collapse

[yt5454]

Under Ken Lay, Enron was George Bush's biggest contributor, both for governor of Texas and for president.

Without Lay, we would not have been stuck with this war criminal president.

[exenrontexas]

Enron started in Omaha. Lay was NOT the first CEO, but the THIRD. He only changed the name to make it SEEM like a new company. Enron was NOT the largest energy company in reality and after Lay left what was left was a little less than when he seized power.

[PhalanxStriker]

This commercial was almost a prophecy to what would happen on world markets when Enron, the largest energy company in America in 2000 imploded overnight.

[MrRadaikon]

Were the ppl making commercial making a reference to dead poets society? If so that's in wicked bad taste.

[reluctantpopstar]

Enron is living proof that some corporations are evil.

Now, that one is provably true.

And also living proof that sometimes the bad guys get what they deserve. Too bad about the low level employees who got screwed.

Enron's slogan proved to be spot on: Why? Why did you even exist? Why were you so evil? Why did you back stab everyone to get as much money as possible and then pat yourselves on the back? Why did you break all those laws and think you'd never get caught?

Why indeed.

[MrRadaikon]

I wouldn't say THAT but I do think that totatlly unregulated trading and consumptions has ALOT of negative affects. People are greedy and full of pride. That's the bottom line.

[firewalkwithbob]

corporations are evil.

[dcdark0]

Regarding your video description..

"I say if you put all your eggs in one basket you deserve a life of poverty."

FYI, rank-and-file employees can't control their pension's asset allocation and affluent investors were deceived by inflated earnings, so why should they be at fault? Real witty video description you got there.

[RicardoDiaz]

I'm sorry if i offended you. The sentence in question was intentionally tounge-in-cheek.

[SurfAlien2]

Enron is living proof that corporations are evil.

[peripatetikerQC]

What a stupid lame-ass simplistic commie generalization. Read the book. Until the end of the 90's, Enron mostly took advantage of the lack of control displayed by the SEC. They went around loose rules. The thing you should do is question Enron's executives morality, not judge the whole corporative system. Think before you post a comment, moron.

[SurfAlien2]

Everyone has a right to express their opinion. I should have worded what I said differently. I may have over generalized on what I said. However, there are many executives in the corporate system who do have questionable ethics. I worked in the corporate system and have experienced that type of behavior from executives. Also, there is no reason to be rude. Just because someone doesn't agree 100% with what you say doesn't give you the right to insult them.

[Maximum40]

I watched the Enron documentary twice. You can actually get it off of Google Videos in two parts. Enron is my favourite.