Imagine you're working for a big company, like, say, number seven on the Fortune 500 list.

Oh, and it's around the year 2000.

There's no Facebook, no Gmail.

We're not thinking that much about privacy.

And then the company you work for goes bust in spectacular fashion.

Well, it was the corporate fraud case that since shockwaves across Houston and the entire

country, the fall of Enron.

Congressional hearings begin this morning in the Enron investigation.

And then some regulator in Washington releases your work emails, all of them.

So all of a sudden, a lot of things in your life just became public, like July 28,

1999, 142 pm attached are the above reference documents.

Hard copies will follow.

But also some perhaps less routine business dealings.

Subject, read, dark star.

Further insulate the coal group and you from any claim that Enron misused the information.

I suggest that you transfer the information to me and I will hold it for safekeeping.

And some cliche, bad workplace behavior.

No subject.

I'm heading to New Orleans this weekend to do some partying.

No Europa, just sluts in the quarter.

And let's not forget the classic 90s chain emails.

Hope you're having a pleasant first week of 1999, thought it would forward this on.

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