janitor or millionaire?

[sleeptech]

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'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 $5.35 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.
I received it also.


PS:
(if, though, you are closer to being a millionaire please let me know)

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[aldente]

Publication and dissemination of this email have had surprising (and unsurprising) results

First. Municipal, State and Federal agencies have received a number of requests to look into various "irregularities" involved in the cited entrepreneurs tomato business:
Local authorities have determined that he failed to acquire a street peddlers license for his tomato stands and fines for 5yrs and 3 stands at $20 per day/per stand amount to well over $500,000.
State authorities have determined:
a) said entrepreneur has been involved in the "underground economy" and failed to accurately report earnings from his tomato stands. State sales tax and income tax both are believed to be underpaid and the state is looking into seizing his assets for back taxes.
b) The State Department of Agriculture has issued an order to seize all produce until it can be determined if it is domestically produced and free of ecoli and salmonella. It is also believed the tomatoes sold in this enterprise are a product of genetic engineering and may violate state restrictions on "the unnatural production of produce by non state accredited agro chemical consortiums".
c) The State department of Economic opportunity has been asked to investigate allegations that undocumented workers have been employed at said tomato stands.
d) Law enforcement and the State Drug Enforcement Agency have looked into allegations that the entrepreneurs two sons (both former gang members) have been using the tomato stands as a front for their illegal drug operations.
e)Following up on the above allegations, the daughter is facing charges of money laundering.
Federal authorities have also been looking into all of the above with the following specific results:
a) using the RICO Act federal authorities have seized the truck fleet and other assets of our entrepreneur asserting they are the product of an illegal conspiracy involving illicit drug sales, employment of illegal aliens, tax evasion and sale of uninspected produce.
b) The IRS is in the process of a complete audit of our entrepreneur.
c) The Department of Homeland Security and FDA and FBI and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is looking into allegations that the tomato stands are really just a fron for a huge smuggling operation.

Meanwhile Bill Gates and the ACE (Association of Custodial Engineers) have joined forces to:
a) Set up a foundation assuring every custodial engineer (janitor) in America free access to the internet
b) File suit against the entrepreneur, the writer and purveyors of this email for both impugning the reputation of Microsoft by implying that Microsoft does not recognize the existence of janitors without email and by ACE for implying that janitors, as a class, are so technologically challenged that they lact internet savvy.

Meanwhile, this email has created something of a Civil War at Fox News.
Bill O'Rielly and greta Van Susterand have taken on our entrepreneur for hiring undocumented workers and using his tomato stands, through his sons' gangland connections, as drug operations disguised as All American fruit stands.
Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck applaud our entrepreneurs' self reliance and diligence. They accuse the Obama Administration of orchestrating an attack on all entrepreneurship and free market enterprise in America with the ongoing investigations and prosecutions of our entrepreneur being simply the vanguard of an all out assault of the free market, especially the free market exchange of vegetables, by those in the shadows who wish to socialize the dissemimation of produce.
O'Rielly says his colleagues are simply bloviating at his expense and invites all who have pithy comments to call his radio show or email his tv show and opine.

Roger Ayles has stayed above the fray, saying all those at Fox News have a free hand in expressing their opinions and that the controversy surrounding the entrepreneur is just one more example of how "fair and balanced" Fox News really is.

Never one to miss an opportunity for exploitation, Vince McMahon at WWE has arramged for Hannity/Beck to meet O'Reilly/Susterand in a "Steel Cage, Last Man(Woman) standing" match at WWE's next pay per view extravaganza. Wolf Blitzer and Larry King have been invited as "Guest Referees"

Update: Noting the participant lack of experience in actual physical contact confrontation Mick Foley and Rick Flair have been enlisted as coaches and trainers for Hannity/Beck and O'Rielly/VanSusterand. When reached for comment, Flair simply replied (with Flairian eloquence) "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" and Foley was unavailable for comment but a source close to him known as "Mr Sock" said "Bring it on!!!".

Further Update: Sean Hannity has withdrawn from the Steel Cage Match enlisting Geraldo Rivera as his Champion. Sources close to Mr. Hannity have said that he privately feared (knowing Rick Flair's reputation as the "dirtiest wrestler in history" and O'Reilly's tendency to hit below the belt that he might emerge from the match likely to be mistaken for either his former partner Alan Colmes, or even, Ms VanSusteran herself. When Rivera was asked why he was willing to put his good looks at risk he said "Bill and Greta can't do anything to this face that hasn't already been done".

[mt]

Interesting al........LOL........where does Ann Coulter fit into the kibosh?

[aldente]

don't know about Ann, but when Sarah Palin was asked if she bought tomatoes from our entrepreneur, cocked her head, winked and replied "You, betcha!"

[Sunshineinmyface]