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JUST THINK (submitted by cpearcy)
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PEGASUS
(VIP) 14 Mar 2005 8:28am
I found this in the cribbage forum submitted by cpearcy...I'm sure he won't mind it being passed along here too...a GOOD one!
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 tells 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. 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 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 over one 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 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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