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TOMATOES
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Harvey, 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 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 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 neighbourhood 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 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 of this 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...
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lottagelady

Ha! How true, unfortunately! x

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