Food for Thought

An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner.
The manager there arranges for an aptitude test for the section floors and sweeping.

After the test the manager says, "You will be appointed for $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 to 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 tobuy 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.
It then dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.

Getting up earlier and earlier every day and going to bed later 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 for 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 and insurace plan to fit his new circumstances.

At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail addres in order for him to forward the documentation.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned.  "What, and how 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 your had been conneected from the very start."

After a moment's silence, the tomatoe millionaire replied:  "Sure I would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!"

Moral of the Story:

1.  The internet, e-mail and e-comerce 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 or your computer, you're probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire.

5.  If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.