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 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 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!" Why of course, I would be a floor
cleaner at Microsoft!"
Moral of this story:
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. Since 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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