text_combined: steve cooper voicemail 03 22 2002 today friday march 22 steve cooper left following voicemail employees since employees access voicemail providing following transcript message please note retention severance plan mentioned transcript debtor companies enron also access message past messages http home enron com updates steve cooper voicemail message distributed friday march 22 2002 hi everybody steve cooper thursday evening march 21 sorry gotten earlier week finalizing dotting crossing retention severance plan want update continued present represent plan creditors committee comfortable support good news order able motion court process finalizing various documentation necessary plan motions applications forth relatively confident motioned next week sometime gotten pushed back number times think track hopefully next week week apologize way thing gotten delayed worked number last month two see quickly move quickly used moving got believe incredibility frustrating get motioned notice objection period court order approved plan goes active guarantee going go active pretty confident fact highly confident endorsement creditors committee court approve however going wait get approval share details plan put process place next week hold one one meetings discuss individual participation plans going mean every one eliminate greatest extent possible uncertainty everyone living last several months plan retroactive march 1 regardless court approves want everybody know start date another subject merit increases promotions employees debtor companies finalized communicated possible exception md vp hopefully notified promotions merit increase side believe finalized employees vice president level hopefully received information increases would encourage speak whoever report everything else moving forward think employees meeting scheduled april 11 looking forward seeing meeting get together target pulling together longer term business plan company hopefully able describe detail april 11 exchanging information communicating creditors regular steady basis relationships beginning settle think actually lot good news impart next several weeks want thank everybody continued efforts understanding want apologize way thing dragged assure jeff mcmahon human resource people working like busy bees get program finalized place knock wood next week week everybody great evening concerns issues problems please hesitate give buzz email get back every one soon great night thanks support help dedication ongoing enron organization