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funny joke makes you think
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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 says to 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. 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 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 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 electronically.
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 . . .
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 says to 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. 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 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 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 electronically.
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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