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MICROSOFT JANITOR



An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test. After the test, the manager says, "You'll be hired at a salary of $30 per day. 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 each day."

Taken aback, the unemployed man states that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address.

To this the manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and therefore cannot expect to be employed."

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and only having about $10 left, he decides to buy a 10-lb box of tomatoes at the supermarket. In less than two hours, he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100. And thus it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Eventually he multiplies his profits manyfold in quite a short time.

Not 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 second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.

Considering the future of his family, he decides to buy some life insurance. Calling an insurance agent, he picks an insurance policy to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the agent asks for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the documentation.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the agent 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 millionaire replied, "I would've been a janitor at Microsoft!"

    Morals of the 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've already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.