What frosts my fridge is the fact that the owner went to all the expense of buying this software that would monitor Internet use, and then he tried to hide the fact that he had it! This seems incredibly stupid and cowardly. If I had only KNOWN that he had it, that alone would have made me curtail my Internet use, and we wouldn't have to resort to the silliness of moving desks around. Or if he had only spoken to me and told there was a problem.

I found out about it only because my own boss is smarter and more humane than the owner. She discreetly indicated that she sympathizes with me, and plans to cut back her own Internet use, too. She also indicated that she'd rather not be dealing with this at all, but she was forced to.

I don't dispute his RIGHT to restrict and/or monitor my Internet use. But I think he should have given us fair warning.

But at the same time he buys this monitoring software, he is incredibly stingy about buying stuff that would actually increase our productivity. But I suppose if we were more productive, we'd have even more time to screw around.