Cleaner at Microsoft
An unemployed man goes
to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The manager there arranges for an
aptitude test. After the test, the manager says: You will be appointed on the
scale of $30 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a
form to complete and advise you where to report for work on your first day.
Taken aback, the
unemployed man protests that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of
an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies: Well, then, that really
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 only having about $10 left, he decides to buy a 10kg box of tomatoes
at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly 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 the man that
he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early and
earlier every day and going to bed late and later, he multiplies his hoard of
profits in quite a short time.
Not too long
thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes,
only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards on a pick-up truck. 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.
Considering the future
of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life assurance. Calling 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 that he might forward the documentation.
When the man replies
that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned: "What, you don’t even 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 have been by now, if you had been connected from the very start!"
After a moment’s silence, the tomato millionaire replied: "Sure! I would
have been a cleaner at Microsoft!"
Morals of the 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 computer, you’re probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you
are to becoming a millionaire.
4: If you do have a
computer and e-mail, you’re already being taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
So, What do you say?
Last updated: 25/03/03
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