Message-ID: <10420626.1075854495896.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:57:00 -0800 (PST) From: david.delainey@enron.com To: matthew.scrimshaw@enron.com Subject: EES Pinnacle Event Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: David W Delainey X-To: Matthew Scrimshaw X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \David_Delainey_Jun2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Delainey-D X-FileName: ddelain.nsf Matthew, if you know my reputation, I tend not to be a big fan of these type of events either - however, at this point, I need to collect more information on the event and I think it inappropriate to cancel at this late stage. Going forward, I think we as a management team including yourself should discuss what the strategy should be going forward. Don't hesitate to voice your opinion. Regards Delainey ---------------------- Forwarded by David W Delainey/HOU/ECT on 02/14/2001 08:52 AM --------------------------- Matthew Scrimshaw 02/12/2001 02:24 AM To: David W Delainey/HOU/ECT@ECT, Janet R Dietrich/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: EES Pinnacle Event Dave/Janet, As you guys like a no bullshit approach, last Fall, I voiced my concerns to the EES management team about the second Pinnacle event (see link below). http://pinnacle2001.proghq.com/index.html My concerns in no particular order were: 1) Given that we have a generous bonus programme to reward staff, I felt the need for such an over the top event like an all expenses paid holiday in the West Indies for "key" staff and their spouses was unnecessary. 2) The lack of transparent selection criteria ("selected Superior and Excellent performers") was devisive would inevitably piss off the vast majority of EES who didn't go on the trip. 3) Apart from disagreeing with the whole idea, I disagreed with the fact that all the MDs automatically got to go as that implied they were all performing and deserved it. 4) I didn't believe that, overall, the business was making enough money to justify a "reward" trip like this. 5) I didn't want to take my best guys out of the office for up to a week as we have a lot of work to do and won't make the numbers sat on a beach 6) The Europe wide Enron team works well together and there would be no way of justifying this trip to the rest of the London office (non EES) who obviously would see it for what it is - a waste of time and money Tom conceded by saying that this one would probably be the last event of its kind. Others remained silent. I withdrew Europe from the event on the grounds that culturally in Europe this event was unacceptable. Stephen Peterson (in the Europe team) appears on the list of attendees, but will not attend for the reasons outlined above and he is OK with it. Afterwards, I found out that McCarty boycotted the first event the year before for the same reasons. Whatever you guys decide to do, Europe remains committed to hitting the numbers and being part of the team. Matthew