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- Employment
-
- 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-pound flat of tomatoes at
- the supermarket. Within less than two hours, he sells all the
- tomatoes individually at 100 percent 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 pickup truck to support his
- expanding business. By the end of the second year, he is the owner
- of a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of 100 formerly
- 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. Seeing that 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 Microsoft.
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- The 6th grade science teacher asked her class, "which body part
- increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?"
-
- No one answered for a long time till little Mary stood up, angry, and
- said the teacher should not be asking 6th graders a question like
- that. She was going to tell her parents, who would tell the
- principal who would fire the teacher!
-
- The teacher ignored her and asked the question again, "which body
- part increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?"
-
- Finally Billy stood up and said that the body part that increases 10
- times its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye.
-
- The teacher said "very good, Billy," then turned to Mary and said,
-
- "As for you, young lady, I have three things to say:
-
- 1) you have a dirty mind,
-
- 2) you didn't read your homework, and
-
- 3) one day you will be very, very disappointed
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- The new hat
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-
- An old lady was standing at the railing of the cruise ship holding
- her hat on tight so that it wouldn't blow off in the wind.
-
- A gentleman approached her and said: "Pardon me, madam. I don't
- intend to be forward, but did you know that your dress is blowing up
- in the wind?" "Yes, I know," said the lady, "But, I need both hands
- to hold onto my hat."
-
- "But, madam, you must know that you are exposed!" said the gentleman
- in earnest.
-
- The woman looked down, then back up at the man and replied, "Sir,
- anything you see down there is 85 years old. I only bought this hat
- yesterday!"
-
-
- Chris Skelhorn