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« on: May 03, 2001, 05:46:00 pm » |
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An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a
> janitor. The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test
> (Section: floors, sweeping, and cleaning). After the test, the
> manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour.
> Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to
> complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day."
> Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an
> e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that
> means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect
> to be employed."
>
> Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10
> in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25-pound flat of tomatoes at the
> supermarket. Within less than two hours, he sells all the tomatoes
> individually at 100 percent profit. Repeating the process several
> times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep
> that night.
>
> And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living
> selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late,
> he multiplies his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a
> cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to
> trade it in again so that he can buy a pickup truck to support his
> expanding business. By the end of the second year, he is the owner of
> a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of 100 formerly
> unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
>
> Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy
> some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an
> insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the
> telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address
> in order to send the final documents electronically.
>
> When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned,
> "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass
> such wealth without the Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce? Just imagine
> where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from
> the very start!"
>
> After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of
> course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!" Moral of this story:
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> 1. The Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
> 2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
> millionaire.
> 3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer
> to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
> 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken
> to the cleaners by Microsoft.
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