MLB Commissioner in US will never use email and never will.

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Link: 'I've never sent an email, never will': MLB commissioner Bud Selig | News.com.au

THE Commissioner of Major League Baseball in the US has never sent an email and he never will, he claims.

Bud Selig revealed his technophobia at a press conference this morning, claiming that he shouldn't have to learn how to send emails if he doesn't want to.
"I've never sent an email, and I never will," he said, according to Eric Fisher, journalist for the Sports Business Journal .
During the press conference Fisher tweeted:
"Selig: 'I've never sent an e-mail and I never will.' Has recently upgraded to an iPhone, though."
Selig is one of the few powerful people who have publicly admitted to refusing to use email.
In 2011 Thierry Breton, CEO of one of the world's largest IT companies Atos banned emails in the workplace.
If people want to talk to me, call or send me a text message," he told The Wall Street Journal . "Emails cannot replace the spoken word."


Shayne Hughes, CEO of leadership consulting firm Learning as Leadership banned email in his company for a week. He argued that it was making workers inefficient.
"Reading, processing, managing, organising, and responding to it absorbs vast amounts of time," he said.
"We clog one another's e-mail systems and to-do lists with a mishmash of crucial topics and trivial information and then waste hours of every day slogging through a hundred useless e-mails to ensure we don't look irresponsible by missing the two or three important ones."
TechCrunch journalist MG Siegler quit email for a month , and said that he didn't feel like he missed anyting, nor did he feel like he was prevented from getting his work done. But he also said he felt "like Frodo Baggins at the end of The Lord of the Rings".
"I'm back home, but I feel like everything has changed," he wrote. "Can I ever really settle in again? I don't think so".

This year Ferrari banned employees from sending viral emails, claiming in its official statement that "the injudicious sending of emails with dozens of recipients often on subjects with no relevance to most of the latter is one of the main causes of time wastage and inefficiency in the average working day in business."
In any case, Major League Baseball has been plagued by doping scandals of late. Selig's latest revelation confirms some people's perceptions of the league as being stuck in the past.
What we want to know is, how do you get to that kind of position without sending an email?

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FAIL

What if it was you, what would you do? :shock:
 
JClarke said:
Seriously, you are just imagining things!
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but what's the point of emailing if you're rich and powerful? such a busy person has no time quibbling around w/ emails :lol:
 
you know what would be funny? he probably can't read :lol:
 
He should know how to set the filter to receive specs instead junk email. Otherwise, scammer/spamming would find a way to bother. Therefore, it waste their time. Probably good reason...
 
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