حارس العمر
13-02-2006, 04:23 PM
Subject: Tomatoes & E-mail
>
>An unemployed man was desperate to support his wife and three kids. He
>applied for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passed the
>aptitude test. The human resources manager told 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 protested that he was poor and had neither a
>computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replied, "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 left. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his
>wallet, he walked past a farmers' market and saw a stand selling 25 lb.
>crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He bought a crate, carried it to a
>busy corner and displayed his ware. In less than 2 hours he sold all the
>tomatoes and made 200% profit. Repeating the process several times more
>that day, the ended up with almost $100 and arrived home that night with
>several bags of groceries for his family.
>
>During the night he decided to repeat the tomato business the next day.
>By the end of the week he was getting up early every day and working
>into the night. He multiplied his profits quickly. Early in the second
>week he acquired a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a
>time, but before a month was up he sold the cart to buy a broken-down
>pickup truck.
>
>At the end of a year he owned three old trucks. His two sons had left
>their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife
>was buying the tomatoes, and his daughter was taking night courses at
>the community college so she could keep books for him.
>
>By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and
>employed fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He
>continues to work hard. Time passed and at the end of the fifth year he
>owned a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervised,
>plus two tomato farms that the boys managed. The tomato company's
>payroll had put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His
>daughter reported that the business grossed a million dollars.
>
>Planning for the future, he decided to buy some life insurance.
>Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picked an insurance plan to fit
>his new circumstances. The adviser asked him for his e-mail address in
>order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replied
>that he didn't have time to mess with a computer and had 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 those five years ago!" "Ha!" snorted the man. "If I'd had e-mail
>five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35
>an hour."
>
>This brings us to the moral of the story. Since you got this story by
>e-mail (computer), you're probably closer to being a gatekeeper (7ares) than a millionaire.
>
>Sadly, I received it also
>
>An unemployed man was desperate to support his wife and three kids. He
>applied for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passed the
>aptitude test. The human resources manager told 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 protested that he was poor and had neither a
>computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replied, "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 left. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his
>wallet, he walked past a farmers' market and saw a stand selling 25 lb.
>crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He bought a crate, carried it to a
>busy corner and displayed his ware. In less than 2 hours he sold all the
>tomatoes and made 200% profit. Repeating the process several times more
>that day, the ended up with almost $100 and arrived home that night with
>several bags of groceries for his family.
>
>During the night he decided to repeat the tomato business the next day.
>By the end of the week he was getting up early every day and working
>into the night. He multiplied his profits quickly. Early in the second
>week he acquired a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a
>time, but before a month was up he sold the cart to buy a broken-down
>pickup truck.
>
>At the end of a year he owned three old trucks. His two sons had left
>their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife
>was buying the tomatoes, and his daughter was taking night courses at
>the community college so she could keep books for him.
>
>By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and
>employed fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He
>continues to work hard. Time passed and at the end of the fifth year he
>owned a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervised,
>plus two tomato farms that the boys managed. The tomato company's
>payroll had put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His
>daughter reported that the business grossed a million dollars.
>
>Planning for the future, he decided to buy some life insurance.
>Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picked an insurance plan to fit
>his new circumstances. The adviser asked him for his e-mail address in
>order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replied
>that he didn't have time to mess with a computer and had 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 those five years ago!" "Ha!" snorted the man. "If I'd had e-mail
>five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35
>an hour."
>
>This brings us to the moral of the story. Since you got this story by
>e-mail (computer), you're probably closer to being a gatekeeper (7ares) than a millionaire.
>
>Sadly, I received it also