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[Don Parris]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:46:50 -0500, Fred A. Miller
<fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> An unemployed man is desperate to support his family  of a wife and three
> kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an
> aptitude test.
> 
> The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of
> $5.35 an hour. Let me have your E-mail address so that we can get you in the
> loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you
> when to start and where to report on your first day."
> 
> Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an
> E-mail address. To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a
> company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist.   Without an
> E-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good
> day!"
> 
> Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10.00 in his
> wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25-lb.
> crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy
> corner and displays the tomatoes.  In less than two hours he sells all the
> tomatoes and makes 100% profit.  Repeating the process several times more
> that day, he ends up with  almost $100.00 and arrives home that night with
> several bags of groceries for his family.
> 
> During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.   By
> the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the
> night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he
> acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before
> a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.
> 
> At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their
> neighborhood, but return to help him with the tomato business.  His wife is
> buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the
> community college so she can keep books for him.
> 
> By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs
> fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to
> work hard.
> 
> Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice, new
> trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that
> the boys manage.  The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless
> and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a
> million dollars.
> 
> Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.
> 
> Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an  insurance plan to fit his
> new circumstances.  Then the adviser asks him for his E-mail address in order
> to send the final documents to him electronically.
> 
> When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has
> no E-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have
> E-mail?  No computer?  No Internet?  Just think where you would be today if
> you'd had all of that five years ago!"
> 
> "Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had E-mail five years ago I would be sweeping
> floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour!"
> 
> Which brings us to the moral of the story: Since you got this story by e-mail,
> you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire!
> 
> Sadly, I received it also...
> 
> --
Technically, I'm about one step away from that.  I'm a security officer.

Don
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