—– Original Message —–
From: David Schlosser
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:19 PM
Subject: Fw: Janitor or Millionaire
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 $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address
so that we can get you in the computer. 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 back, 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 employ s 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 which 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 a 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’d 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 $5.15 an hour". Which brings us to the
moral:……………………. Since you got this story by e-mail, you’re
probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire. Sadly, I received it also.
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 $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address
so that we can get you in the computer. 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 back, 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 employ s 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 which 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 a 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’d 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 $5.15 an hour". Which brings us to the
moral:……………………. Since you got this story by e-mail, you’re
probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire. Sadly, I received it also.
