Janitor or Millionaire??
Janitor or Millionaire
Date of joke: January 14th, 2008
Closer Than You Think!
An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning).
After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day. Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed.
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly.
After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business. 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.
Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, "What, you don't 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 be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the very start!"
After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"
Moral 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. Since you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by
Speed guess it is not the case of 'lifafa dekh ke majmoo bhapp lethe hai'. So adaab araj hai janab.
Although it a very old joke, but I know few cases in back home where illiterate (poor) people has become rich by selling vegetables and fruits on the streets !!
One person in my area who started a small cart of vegetable some 15 years back, last year when i was there, he was still using the same cart for selling the vegetable, guess what he owns 12 loading pickups, he has 39 carts spread in different parts of the city, tow houses and a new model car in his village which is very far from my city (27 hrs to reach by road) and has 40 employees as drivers and vegetable sellers (drivers collects the fresh vegetables from the wholesale market early morning say around 3am and by 5am they deliver it to all the carts around the city) once the public is out … his fresh vegetable are on the display on almost double price ...
But it took around 15 years of hard work for him to reach this position, this story he told me in secret since I helped him that time to get a place to sell vegetable in my area.
I asked him why he doesn’t get a decent shop and sell the items in more organized and professional way, he replied with a smile, if I do that people will ask for bargain in price, police, municipality, income tax, chamber of commerce and economy will ask for money, then the shop rent and other expenses etc...
This way people still think he is poor and many people don't even bother to take back the little change and give it as a tip which is an extra income) so the life is going on and his bank balance is shooting day by day!!
So moral of the story, you should have a smart mind and ready to work hard !!
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You don't know that he is pretending to be tomato seller when actually he is selling nano sized bombs hidden inside tomato pips. Did'nt you smell a rat when this tomato seller became a millionaire, selling what... tomatoes !!!! Hmm.. people are so naive. Ooops... my lips are sealed.
LOL Mom-me, I never knew tomato sellers had the ambition to take over a computer company. :P
"How come I can pick my ears but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How come you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, maybe you should decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say." Ani Difranco
haha. now it is also a conspiracy.
then the tomato guy is also a spy.(007)
your comments are very creative.
your comments make the QL alive. :)
Today is qatar, tomorrow the world!! bwahaha. ^^,
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PEACE NOT WAR FOR 2008!
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This is a conspiracy by tomato sellers who are actually spies employed to take over the Microsoft and eventually disturb the economy of America. Actually I could add more to the plot hatched but... don't want to risk my life.
Hmmm...but if he had taken the janitor job he could have gotten stock in Microsoft (which I believe is part of their employment package) and become a millionaire without doing ANY work.
"How come I can pick my ears but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How come you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, maybe you should decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say." Ani Difranco
So that Dandy gets to prove his point and we all live happily ever after.
Why would you buy tomatoes from this guy at a marked up price when you could just go to the supermarket and get them cheaper? :S
"How come I can pick my ears but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How come you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, maybe you should decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say." Ani Difranco
Hmmm there is a lot you can learn from your 'henz'.
i mek da gud mony frm sell eggz dees dayz. my henz ol hav da email. dey mek chat wile haching
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i think i know what qatman is saying.. apple like MACINTOSH? :)
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Well the Apple means the Mac. Got it.
neither do I Qatman :P
novita77 I did not get it
Got it - If you do not have an email you'll end up selling tomatoes. personally I prefer the Apple.
---> Very funny !
Moral of the story is good but I doubt in real life, I can be a millionaire by selling tomatoes, especially when you need a trade licence, 50% partnership with local and what not. BTW, what is the logic behind, Date of joke ........
Got it - If you do not have an email you'll end up selling tomatoes. personally I prefer the Apple.