WastedTimes

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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 $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail
address so that we can get you in the computer. 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 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 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes
>>> and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that
>>> day, he ends up with almost $100 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 gangs 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 employ S 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 trucks and a warehouse which 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
>>> 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 micros0ft and making $5.15 an
>>> hour"
>>> Which brings us to the mor of the story:.........................
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Since you got this story by e-mail, you're
>>> probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.
>>>

[hbgator]

good one thanks