What! No 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. 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 tomatos at the supermarket. Within less than
two 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. 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!"

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, 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. Seeing that 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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