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No matter what your connection is to corporate America, everyone has heard something about a company called Enron. Digna Showers was like any other employee working at Enron. Like many other aspects of Digna’s life, that all changed after December 3, 2001. Over 4,500 members of Enron employees were called to a meeting on the sixth floor and told they had “a half-hour to pack” their “belongings and leave” (Parker). Digna Showers worked as an administrative assistant in the logistics department for 18 years and her savings in Enron stock were excess of 400,000 dollars. Showers’ retirement money, main source of family income, and insurance were all lost at once. Without her medical insurance, Digna can barely afford her husbands medication he has needed ever since his debilitating biking accident 11 years ago. “If he doesn’t have it, his brain can’t function normally” (Parker). With more than a year passed since being laid off, Showers has a clear understanding of what led Enron into bankruptcy. “It was the greed of the Enron executives” (Parker). Enron executives were hiding debt with shady accounting practices while cashing in their stocks and profiting. A month before the company collapsed, the company st