The humor comes from the Enron trial today. Over at Isiah’s blog, he reports that Fastow has a very deadpan sense of humor. Or else it’s entirely unintentional.
At one point Petrocelli called fastow a greedy man on Thursday in the cross examination and without cracking a smile Fastow responded, “Mr. Petrocelli, we’ve aleady established I was greedy on Wednesday.”
Jeeze, what was he the other six days of the week? Merely avaricious?
As for the farce, well, of course that’s supplied by Bonusgate. There’s a big fooraw over one of the file cabinets for the pro tem’s office turning up with a dent, like someone might have tried to break into it. Outside of the fact that file cabinets are nortoriously insecure even when locked, I think the real question is why wasn’t the cabinet actually in the pro tem’s office. Instead, it and others were in the break room, where any employee (and theoretically, anyone in the building) could get to them.
Reminds me of stories from Feynman’s book. In essense (while working at Los Alamos during WWII on the Manhattan Project) he discovered that pretty much all the locked cabinets and safes were completely insecure. He even developed a reputation as a safecracker (though the fact was that most of the safes still had the manufacturers default combination set! Easy as pie).
So did the military thank him and properly secure the vital info (since, as it turns out, there WERE Soviet spies in the project).
Nope. Their solution: “Mr. Feynman is no longer allowed near any safes.”
They must have hired all their security experts from the OIG!
Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like our IT department’s solution to the fact that our Dell computers all had crappy HD’s, causing three to fail on me in an 18 month period . . . They just don’t talk to me any more.