An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as
a
cleaner.
The manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors,
sweeping of...).
After the test, the manager says, "You will be appointed on the
scale of $12 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that
I can
send you a form to complete and advise you where to report for work
on your first day." Taken aback, the unemployed man protests
that he
is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To
this
the MS manager replies, "Well then, that really 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 only having about $10
left, he decides to buy a 10kg box of tomatoes at the supermarket.
Within less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% 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
the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Getting up early and earlier every day and going to bed later and
later, he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not
too
long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen
boxes
of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards on
a
pick-up truck. By the end of the first year, he is the owner of a fleet
of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of several hundred former
unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Considering the future of
his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Calling
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 that he might forward
the
documentation. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the
adviser is stunned, "What, you don't even 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 have been by
now, if you had been connected > from the very start!"
After a
moment's silence, the tomato millionaire replied, "Sure, I would
have
been a cleaner at Microsoft!"
Morals of the story:
1: The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2: Get e-mail, if you want to be a cleaner at Microsoft.
3: If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
millionaire.
4: Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer
to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a
millionaire.
5: If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being
taken
to the cleaners by Microsoft
