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WastedTimes E=mail and your future |
| Author: | lightwave [ Sun 12 Feb, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | E=mail and your future |
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. >>> |
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| Author: | hbgator [ Sun 12 Feb, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E=mail and your future |
good one thanks |
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