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Thread ID: 78230	2007-04-08 10:17:00	Perspective on the necessity of computers in daily life...	johcar (6283)	PC World Chat

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539008	2007-04-08 10:17:00	An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner . The manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning) . After the test, the manager says: You will be appointed on the scale of $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 left, he decides to buy a 10 kg 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 early and earlier every day and going to bed late 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 pickup truck . By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of a 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 cleaner at Microsoft!" Moral 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 the internet, you're probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire . 4: If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being taken to the cleaners by Microsoft .	johcar (6283)
539009	2007-04-08 20:17:00	Very good and truer than a lot of people might think. ;)	winmacguy (3367)
539010	2007-04-08 20:31:00	Nonsense. You buy tomatoes at the supermarket and try selling them for more than you paid fo them. You'll find no-one buys them. Supermarket tomaotes aren't cheap at all.	pctek (84)
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