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SKINNING SKILLING

I have an unusual desire to see Skilling, formerly of Enron, get his ass kicked.

He is an alumnus of a former client and a nasty example of the more difficult of that consultant breed.

And, I live in California! I paid a lot of money over to his company and to him during our 'power crisis'.

Listen to him laugh:

At another point, Mr. Berkowitz seized on an opening to try to show Mr. Skilling's sense of his own rightness that irritated California politicians during that state's energy crisis, when Enron was making huge profits selling wholesale power and natural gas to the state. Mr. Skilling joked publicly in June 2001 that the only difference between the Titanic and California was that "at least the lights were on when the Titanic went down."

When Mr. Skilling compared the energy regulatory environment in California to that of developing countries, Mr. Berkowitz asked: "Do you think that's funny? You were smiling. What happened out there, do you think that's funny?"

That is me he is laughing at.

The shit.

I think that they are all as guilty as hell.

If you want to read more about Skilling and his performance, here it is.

Which Picture of Skilling Will Enron Jurors Believe?

Take a look at that cooked up publicity photo. You can see the smirk and smarm despite the 'informal' look. Note the pressed jeans.

I worked with a lot of these professional consultants who had never done real work in their life.

Many of them were quite aware of this disability and worked hard to compensate.

Others, too many, were arrogant, entitled assholes who made life miserable for their colleagues and a lot of people in their clients' organizations.

Of course, my job, was to show them another way and offer some skills in the direction of positive influence. There were some non-takers.

I don't remember him, but Skilling would have been there at the time and is typical of the minority who sneered.

Whether they hang him or not, he is 'ruined' in the sense of reputation and livelihood.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.