Tomatoes - Off topic but needed light relief
Apr 28, 2005 06:42 PM
by Cass Silva
Subject: Tomatoes
>
>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 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 $5.35 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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