All you Microsoft signer(s)

#1 · May 9, 2001, 7:09 am

Quote from Forum Archives on May 9, 2001, 7:09 am
Posted by: root <root@...>

An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The
manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping
of....). After the test, the manager says, "You will be appointed on the
scale of ï¿½30 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 ï¿½10 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 ï¿½100 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 gain shortly afterwards on a pick-up
truck. By the end of the first year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up
trucks and manages a staff of several hundred formerly 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 working for Microsoft!"

Morals of the story: 1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to
rule your life. 2. Get e-mail, if you want to be a cleaner at Microsoft. 3.
If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
4. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to
becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire. 5. If you do have
a computer AND e-mail, you're probably already being taken to the cleaners by
Microsoft!

--
Associate.com - THE Place to Associate! welovegod.org
Over 125 Inspirational/Technical E-mail Lists welovegod.org/lists.shtml

Posted by: root <root@...>

An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The
manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping
of....). After the test, the manager says, "You will be appointed on the
scale of ï¿½30 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 ï¿½10 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 ï¿½100 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 gain shortly afterwards on a pick-up
truck. By the end of the first year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up
trucks and manages a staff of several hundred formerly 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 working for Microsoft!"

Morals of the story: 1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to
rule your life. 2. Get e-mail, if you want to be a cleaner at Microsoft. 3.
If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
4. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to
becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire. 5. If you do have
a computer AND e-mail, you're probably already being taken to the cleaners by
Microsoft!

--
Associate.com - THE Place to Associate! welovegod.org
Over 125 Inspirational/Technical E-mail Lists welovegod.org/lists.shtml