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 (GLC) 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 back, the man protested 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 it 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 only $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes at $10. He bought a crate, carries it to a busy street corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes $10 profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, and ended up with almost $100. he went home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.
That night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. Each day he gets up early, and works till late night. His profits multiplies quickly.
Early into the second week he acquirds a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a old junk 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 helps buy those tomatoes, and his daughter had to attend night classes at the community college so as to help bookkeeping and accounts for him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people from the neighbourhood. He continues to work hard.
Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervise, 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 reported that the business had now grossed over one million dinar profit annually and with forecast annual growth of 10%.
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 him the final documents electronically.
When the man replied 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 Menara T and making $5.35 an hour."
Article Contributed By: naughty girl.
He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm (GLC) 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 back, the man protested 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 it 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 only $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes at $10. He bought a crate, carries it to a busy street corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes $10 profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, and ended up with almost $100. he went home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.
That night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. Each day he gets up early, and works till late night. His profits multiplies quickly.
Early into the second week he acquirds a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a old junk 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 helps buy those tomatoes, and his daughter had to attend night classes at the community college so as to help bookkeeping and accounts for him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people from the neighbourhood. He continues to work hard.
Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervise, 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 reported that the business had now grossed over one million dinar profit annually and with forecast annual growth of 10%.
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 him the final documents electronically.
When the man replied 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 Menara T and making $5.35 an hour."
Article Contributed By: naughty girl.
1 comment:
Great story Doc. What's the message? Discard my e-mail address?? ... :-D
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