They may have a point!
>
>
>
> Boy they got me pegged in the next to the last statement. The Tomato
> Company An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and
> three kids. 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 $5.35 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 25 lb.
> 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 that 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 
> over
> one 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 $5.35 an hour."
>
> Which brings us to the moral of the story:
>
> Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a
> janitor than a millionaire.
>
> Sadly, I received it also.