If Skilling Was Blue as Enron Fell, He Must Have Foreseen His Arrest

Jeffrey K. Skilling, former chief executive of Enron Corp., described to a packed courtroom (“Enron’s Skilling Avows Innocence,” April 11) how he began to drink heavily and became deeply depressed when he found out his former company was impersonating the landing pattern of a lawn dart (my words, not his).

He walked away with tens of millions of dollars and got depressed?

Yeah, right.

Look around the room. Do you see anyone who would get depressed with that much money in the bank? If Skilling was depressed, safe to say, it was only because he knew his arrest was just a matter of time.

David Ohman

Irvine

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Many readers have blasted high executive salaries -- but I wonder how many of those readers could handle the job of a company president.

The golden parachutes are nice, but how would you deal with a disaster like the Exxon Valdez, or Bhopal, especially if you were partly responsible for it?

Do you have the tenacity to fight the unions and their job banks or lay off 10,000 workers without batting an eye?

In “Great Expectations,” the lawyer Jaggers washes his hands after each day at the office. I suspect many CEOs do the same.

Matthew Okada

Pasadena