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 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 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 e-mail, you're probably closer to being
a janitor than a millionaire.

Sadly, I received it also.

Lucky I read it here on the forums then.

Me too

I saw it here so I can be rich! O wait i have email...