Unemployed Man

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches
TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school
to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a janitor's job
at Microsoft 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 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 in
his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling
25lb 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 everyday 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 wholesale 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 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 Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour."
Which brings us to the moral: Since you got this story by e-mail,
you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.
Sadly, I received it too!









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