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August 15, 2006 by Dan White.

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 $7.35 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 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 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 over
one 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 $7.35 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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