http://kipster.org/kipworld/archives/2003/06/30/blackout/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:09:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 http://kipster.org/kipworld/archives/2003/06/30/blackout/#comment-134 Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:04:05 -0400 http://kipster.org/kipworld/archives/2003/06/30/blackout/#comment-134 You were lucky. Power is serious business, so serious that at the height of the energy speculation bubble the head of Enron and Dynegy were MAKING MONEY HAND OVER FIST DESPITE HAVING NO PHYSICAL ASSETS. Believe me, I know; I work in power. Every day people walk up to me and say the same thing: "You work in the prison? No, that place is a prison. There's barbed wire and everything. You're sure it's not a prison?" As my old boss said before leaving the company for more money, power is hell. And you don't want to get any on you. You were lucky. Power is serious business, so serious that at the height of the energy speculation bubble the head of Enron and Dynegy were MAKING MONEY HAND OVER FIST DESPITE HAVING NO PHYSICAL ASSETS. Believe me, I know; I work in power. Every day people walk up to me and say the same thing: “You work in the prison? No, that place is a prison. There’s barbed wire and everything. You’re sure it’s not a prison?” As my old boss said before leaving the company for more money, power is hell. And you don’t want to get any on you.

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