Have A Look At This...

[mad welshman]

Tomatoes

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 25lb 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 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:

Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably

closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also.

[Kelvyn]

So where do I buy my cheap tomato's (unemployed at the mo)

[silvasurfa]

god i hate my job today!

[Scottish_SR]

lol. I wish I was as rich as the janitor!! Got another year of student life ahead!!

Nice story though!!