How true !

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife
watches TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of
high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for
a janitor's job at Microsoft 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 everyday
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 wholesale 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 which 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 electronic means
you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it too!!!! [:)]