From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:01:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1064 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 28 February 2005 Number 1064 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 [Fwd: Microsoft Job] : Alan Duval 2 MS Job : Alan Duval **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:51 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: [Fwd: Microsoft Job] [attachments have been removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:35:48 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: MS Job >> >> An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three >> kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an >> aptitude test. >> >> >> The human resources manager tells 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 aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer >> nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "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 leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his >> wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. >> crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy >> corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the >> tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more >> that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with >> several bags of groceries for his family. >> >> >> During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By >> the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the >> night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he >> acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but >> before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck. >> >> >> At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left >> their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is >> buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the >> community college so she can keep books for him. >> >> >> By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and >> employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He >> continues to work hard. >> >> >> Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice >> trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms >> that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of >> homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the >> business grossed over one million dollars. >> >> >> Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting >> with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new >> circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order >> to send the final documents electronically. >> >> >> When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and >> has 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 had all of that five years ago!" >> >> >> " Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be >> sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour." >> >> >> Which brings us to the moral of the story: >> >> Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a >> janitor than a millionaire. >> >> Sadly, I received it also. >> >> Cheers Alan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------