[Am-info] THE CLEANER.

[Fred A. Miller]

THE CLEANER.


Perspective on the necessity of computers in daily life...

An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The
manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and
cleaning). After the test, the manager says: You will be appointed on the
scale 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 on your first
day. Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is neither in
possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the MS manager
replies: Well, then, that really 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 only having about $10 left, he decides to buy
a 10 kg 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 before going to sleep that
night. And thus it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living
selling tomatoes.

Getting up early and earlier every day and going to bed late and later, he
multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not too 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 pickup truck. By
the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pickup trucks and
manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
Considering the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life
assurance. Calling 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 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 tomato millionaire replied: "Sure! I
would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!" Moral of the 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 got this story 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 being taken to the cleaners by
Microsoft.

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We have no bugs in our software, Never!,=20
We do have undocumented added features,
that you will find amusing, at no added cost,=20
to you, at this time.