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    To All The Poor People In This Forum

    Tomato Company
    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 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 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.


    Sadly, I received it also.

    Wombat (with not a dollar to his name.....boo hoo hoo !!! )

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    That is a grea story!! Loved it! Truly puts things in perspective!
    Maggie,

    I didn't slap you, I just high fived your Face!
    I've Been Boo'd!!

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    I should respond by snail mail to this Wombat.........but I cant afford the stamp
    Merry Holidays to One an All Blessed be

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