The following just came in my e-mail. Seeing that I work in hi-tech and live
or die by e-mail, it's pretty tragic.
> E-mail?
>
> 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
> eMail 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 lb flat of tomatoes at the
> supermarket.
>
> Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually 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
> 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 pick-up truck to support his expanding business. By
> the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks
> and manages a staff of a hundred former 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 eMail 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:
>
> 1. The Internet, eMail and eCommerce do not need to rule your life.
> 2. If you don't have eMail, but work hard, you can still become a
> millionaire.
> 3. Seeing that you got this story via eMail, you could be closer
> to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
> 4. If you do have a computer and eMail, you have already been taken to
> the cleaners by Microsoft.
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