Hey Rusty, Good story. For the original, read W.Somerset Maugham's "The Verger". Bob Eaton Rusty Carruth wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message within 5 days > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:46:22 -0700 (MST) > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > To: > > The original message was received at Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:38:52 -0700 (MST) > from tempe-dhcp7 [163.185.94.92] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.qso.com. > Message could not be delivered for 5 days > Message will be deleted from queue > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Reporting-MTA: dns; azterra.tempe.tt.slb.com. > Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:38:52 -0700 (MST) > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; n7okn@qso.com > Action: failed > Status: 4.4.7 > Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.qso.com > Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:46:22 -0700 (MST) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [silly???] Microsoft & your career > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:19:21 -0700 > From: Rusty Carruth > Organization: Dis-organized? > To: rustyc carruth > > > >>>>> 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