[KenP]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

On the brighter side, you might ask your boss to read this:

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/50169.html

From that article:

"It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work," he wrote.

Compare that with this:
http://www.websense.com/global/en/Pr...ease=050719976

$178 Billion in Employee Productivity Lost in the U.S. Annually Due to Internet Misuse, Reports Websense, Inc.
Workers rely on web to perform personal tasks on company time, draining employee output
SAN DIEGO July 19, 2005 -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world?s leading provider of employee internet management solutions, today announced that internet misuse in the workplace costs American corporations more than $178 billion annually in lost productivity. This translates into a loss of more than $5,000 per employee per year.