Bill Gates organized an enormous session to recruit a new CEO for Microsoft Europe.
Exactly 5,000 candidates assembled in a large room.
One candidate was a Pinoy, Mario Dimaculangan.
Bill Gates: ''Thank you for coming. Those who do not know JAVA may leave.''
2,000 people left the room.
Mario said to himself,
'I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I'll give it a try'
Bill Gates: ''Candidates who never had experience in managing more than 100 people
may leave.''
Again, 2,000 people left the room.
Mario said to himself
' I never managed anybody but myself, but I have nothing to lose if I stay.
What can happen to me?'
So he stayed.
Bill Gates: ''Candidates who do not have management MBAs may
leave.''
500 people left the room.
Mario said to himself,
'I left high school at 15 but what have I got to lose?'
So he stayed in the room.
Lastly,
Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak Serbo - Croat to leave.
498 people left the room.
Mario said to himself,
' I do not speak one word of Serbo - Croat but what do I have to lose?'
So he stayed and found himself with one other candidate.
Everyone else had gone.
Bill Gates joined them and said :
'Apparently you are the only two candidates who speak Serbo - Croat,
so I'd now like to hear you have a conversation together in that language.'
Calmly,
Mario turns to the other candidate and says
`Anu ba yan, dong?'
The other candidate answers,
'Ewan ko rin, pare...'
Subject: Bill Gates and the Pinoy CEO 
Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:30 pm
