Dick,
That's the best parable I've read in longer than I can remember...
<grin>
Thanks,
Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217
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> After all of the MicroSoft bashing, this should be fun!!
>
>
> An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor.
> The manager there arranges for him to take an
> aptitude test (Section:Floors, sweeping and cleaning).
>
> After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum
> wage, $5.15 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 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within
> less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100%
> 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 again so that he can buy a
> pick-up truck to support his expanding business. By the end
> of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and
> manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling
> tomatoes.
>
> Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy
> some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks
> an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the
> telephone 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, "What, 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 had been connected to the Internet
> from the very start!"
>
> After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of
> course! I would be a floor cleaner 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're probably closer to
> becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
> 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been
> taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
>
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