MIcrosoft Millionaire

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> 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-pound flat
> of tomatoes at the
> supermarket. Within less than two hours, he
> sells all the tomatoes
> individually at 100 percent 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 pickup truck to support his
> expanding business. By the end of
> the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of
> pickup trucks and manages a
> staff of 100 formerly 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.
>