Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1064
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:01:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Monday 28 February 2005
 Number  1064
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Subjects for today
 
1   [Fwd: Microsoft Job] : Alan Duval <amoht at ozemail dot com dot au>
2   MS Job : Alan Duval <amoht at ozemail dot com dot au>

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Date:  Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:51 +1100
From:  Alan Duval <amoht at ozemail dot com dot au>
Subject:   [Fwd: Microsoft Job]

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Date:  Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:35:48 +1100
From:  Alan Duval <amoht at ozemail dot com dot au>
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

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