[ILUG] OT - M$ Joke - OT

[Conor Wynne]

Completely OT but since its about M$ and there is so little traffic on
ilug these days.....

>>  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 lb. 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 former 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.




Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande.