Enron suicide note disclosed

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 12 09:14:33 PDT 2002



>From: Marco Anglesio <mpa at the-wire.com>
>
>First, why is the public/work face the last to deteriorate, while the one
>shown to one's loved ones is the first?

Because of a strong instinct for economic self-preservation. There are very sharp limits on emotions you can show in the workplace -- hence, the smile-button expressions that are standard wear for corporate work. There is a wonderful passage in Joseph Heller's Something Happened (the Great American Business Novel) that goes something like this: In every office there is someone who is slowly going crazy. That person is imperceptibly isolated as a deviant and shunned, and eventually -- quietly and smoothly -- eased out of the company by superficially solicitous human resources personnel and forgotten.

Carl

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