OUCH!

Lee

"KenCo" wrote in message
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Subject: Email Moral


An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches
TV
all day, and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school to
hang
around with the local toughs. 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 $5.15 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 everyday 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 which 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. 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'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 $5.15 an hour."

Which brings us to the moral: Since you got this story by e-mail, you're
probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also
--
http://www.kencofish.com Ken Arnold, 401-781-9642
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