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An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft
as a Lavatory cleaner. The manager there arranges for an
aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping offices) After the
test, the manager says: You will be paid $30 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 he decides to buy a 10lb. 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 earlier 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 assurance. 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 lavatory cleaner at Microsoft!
Morals of the story:
The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
Get e-mail, if you want to be a lavatory cleaner at Microsoft.
If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
millionaire.
Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably
closer to becoming a lavatory cleaner than you are to becoming
a millionaire.
If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being taken
to the cleaners by Microsoft.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
as a Lavatory cleaner. The manager there arranges for an
aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping offices) After the
test, the manager says: You will be paid $30 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 he decides to buy a 10lb. 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 earlier 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 assurance. 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 lavatory cleaner at Microsoft!
Morals of the story:
The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
Get e-mail, if you want to be a lavatory cleaner at Microsoft.
If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
millionaire.
Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably
closer to becoming a lavatory cleaner than you are to becoming
a millionaire.
If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being taken
to the cleaners by Microsoft.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
