This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DF8C2E05227B56DC6769B5D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [silly???] Microsoft & your career Organization: Dis-organized? Ok, look, I know its not exactly right down there at the end, but its cute anyway. > >>>>> Thus spake Ed Coleman > > > An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. > > The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: > > Floors, sweeping and cleaning). > > After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum > > wage,$5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send > > you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your > > first day." > > Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an > > e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that 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 having only $10 > > in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 pound flat of tomatoes at the > > supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes > > individually at 100% profit. > > Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with > > almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on him > > that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up > > early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits > > quickly. > > After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes > > of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a > > pick-up truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the > > second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a > > staff of a hundred formerly unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. > > Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some > > life insurance. Consulting with 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 to > > send the final documents electronically. > > When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, > > "What, you don't 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 be now, if you had been connected to the internet from > > the very start!" > > After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of > > course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!" > > > > Moral of this story: > > 1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life. > > 2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a > > millionaire. > > 3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to > > becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire. > > 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to > > the cleaners by Microsoft. > > << End forwarded message --------------DF8C2E05227B56DC6769B5D6 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >From rustyc Wed Apr 4 10:36:30 2001 Return-Path: <> Delivered-To: rustyc@descomp.com Received: by mail.descomp.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id E833C80B; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:36:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from azterra.tempe.tt.slb.com. 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(8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12962; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:38:52 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3AC4B209.96806905@descomp.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:19:21 -0700 From: Rusty Carruth Organization: Dis-organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rustyc carruth Subject: [silly???] Microsoft & your career Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >>>>> Thus spake Ed Coleman > > > An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. > > The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: > > Floors, sweeping and cleaning). > > After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum > > wage,$5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send > > you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your > > first day." > > Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an > > e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that 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 having only $10 > > in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 pound flat of tomatoes at the > > supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes > > individually at 100% profit. > > Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with > > almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on him > > that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up > > early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits > > quickly. > > After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes > > of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a > > pick-up truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the > > second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a > > staff of a hundred formerly unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. > > Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some > > life insurance. Consulting with 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 to > > send the final documents electronically. > > When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, > > "What, you don't 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 be now, if you had been connected to the internet from > > the very start!" > > After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of > > course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!" > > > > Moral of this story: > > 1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life. > > 2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a > > millionaire. > > 3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to > > becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire. > > 4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to > > the cleaners by Microsoft. > > << End forwarded message --JAA06128.986402782/azterra.tempe.tt.slb.com.-- --------------DF8C2E05227B56DC6769B5D6--