> Subject: applying for a job
> 
> 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!"  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.
>