> Subject: FW: Millionaire
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> > > The Moral of the Story
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> > > 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).
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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!"
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> > > After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why,
> > > of course!  I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"
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> > > Moral of this story:
> > > 1.  The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
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> > > 2.  If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a
> > > millionaire.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 4.  If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been
> > > taken to the cleaners by Microsoft .
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