An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a
cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test After the test,
the manager says: "You will be appointed on a salary of $30 per day.
Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and
advise you where to report for work."

Taken aback, the unemployed man states that he is neither in
possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the MS
manager replies: "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and
therefore cannot expect to be employed."

Stunned, the man leaves.

Not knowing where to turn and only having about $10 left, he decides
to buy a 10kg box of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2
hours,he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% profit. Repeating the process
several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100. And thus it
dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.

Eventually he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time.

Not long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen
boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards
on a pick-up truck. By the end of the second year, he is the owner of
a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former
unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.

Considering the future of his family, he decides to buy life insurance.
Calling an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit
his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the
adviser asks for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the
documentation.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned.

"What, you don't even have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to
amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine
where you would have been by now, if you had been connected from the very
start!"

After a moment's silence, the millionaire replied: "Sure! I would
have been a cleaner at Microsoft!"

And so, on to the morals of this story:

1: The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2: If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3: Seeing that you are reading this story which I sent via e-mail,
you're probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a
millionaire.
4: If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already been taken to
the cleaners by Microsoft.