HEHEHE!! good one!!!
--- Fred Wright <
fawright@earthlink.net> wrote:
> An unemployed man goes to try for a job with
> Microsoft as a Lavatory
> cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude
> test (Section: Floors,
> sweeping offices) After the test, the manager says:
> You will be paid $30
> per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I
> can send you a form to
> complete and advise you where to report for work on
> your first day.
>
> Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is
> neither in possession
> of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the
> MS manager replies:
> Well, then, that really 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 only having about
> $10 he decides to buy a 10lb. box of tomatoes at the
> supermarket. Within
> less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly 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 the man that he
> could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
>
> Getting up earlier and earlier every day and going
> to bed later and later,
> he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short
> time.
>
> Not too long thereafter, he acquires a cart to
> transport several dozen
> boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again
> shortly afterwards on
> a pick-up truck. By the end of the first year, he is
> the owner of a fleet
> of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of several
> hundred former unemployed
> people, all selling tomatoes.
>
> Considering the future of his wife and children, he
> decides to buy some
> life assurance. Calling 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
> that he might forward the
> documentation.
>
> When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the
> adviser is stunned:
> What, you don't even 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 have been by now, if you had been
> connected from the very start!
>
> After a moment's silence, the tomato millionaire
> replied: Sure! I would
> have been a lavatory cleaner at Microsoft!
>
> Morals of the story:
>
> The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to
> rule your life.
>
> Get e-mail, if you want to be a lavatory cleaner at
> Microsoft.
>
> If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can
> still become a millionaire.
>
> Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're
> probably closer to
> becoming a lavatory cleaner than you are to becoming
> a millionaire.
>
> If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already
> being taken to the
> cleaners by Microsoft.
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Wright
> fawright@earthlink.net
>
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