Corporate Ethics
May. 3rd, 2006 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Today's first lesson in corporate ethics comes from Rex Tillerson, President of Exxon. Asked on the Today Show how he can justify price gouging and the record profits his company has squeezed from the misery of everyone else in America, Tillerson displayed the depths of his conscience and compassion by replying "Well, Exxon is in business to make money, you know."
Our second lesson comes from Kenneth Lay, former President of the former Enron. Lay spent today telling the jury in his trial that he loved Enron, the company he destroyed, and he loved Enron's employees, the people he ruined.
He is apparently trying to convince the proverbial Twelve People Too Stupid to Get Excused from Jury Duty that what he did to his company and employees was just making love. Most people would choose to describe it with a different word, however.
Our second lesson comes from Kenneth Lay, former President of the former Enron. Lay spent today telling the jury in his trial that he loved Enron, the company he destroyed, and he loved Enron's employees, the people he ruined.
He is apparently trying to convince the proverbial Twelve People Too Stupid to Get Excused from Jury Duty that what he did to his company and employees was just making love. Most people would choose to describe it with a different word, however.
