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 $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 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 late 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 cleaner at Microsoft!"
Moral 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 an e-mail, you're already being taken
to the cleaners by Microsoft.
