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Skriven 2005-04-12 19:32:20 av George Pope (1:153/307.11)
Ärende: Perspective
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No E-Mail Address

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids.
e applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude tes
. The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at the 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 whe
 to start and where to report on your first day."

Taken aback, 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 com
any like ours, that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail ad
ress, 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 farmer's market and sees a stand selling 25lb. crates of beaut
ful 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 a 100% prof
t. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $1
0 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family. Du
ing 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 ni
ht. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he acquires a c
rt to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up,
e sells the cart to buy a broken down pickup truck. At the end of a year, he ow
s 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 t
king night courses at the community college so she can keep the books for him.
y the end of the second year, he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs
ifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work
hard. Time passes and at the end of the fifth he owns a fleet of nice trucks an
 a warehouse which his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys man
ge. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless peopl
 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.
hen the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final docu
ents electronically. When the man replies that he doesn't have the 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
oday 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 fl
ors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour."

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

Sadly, I received it also.


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