An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as
a janitor. The manager arranges for him to take an aptitude
test. After the test, the manager says, "You will be
employed just above minimum wage, $10.15 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 flat of
tomatoes at the supermarket. In 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 so that he
can buy a small truck to support his growing business. By
the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of
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 life insurance. Consulting an insurance adviser, he
picks a plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the
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,
"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 were
connected to the Internet from the very start!"
After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied,
"Why, of course! I would be a janitor 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 may be
closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a
millionaire. Something to consider.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you may already
been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
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