[CS-FSLUG] An unemployed man..............

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Sun Feb 27 12:46:50 CST 2005


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...

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