Nice quote, thanks!

Wow, that's nice? Mods just straight-up *delete* posts now? LOL. That's new, and hilarious.

Ya'll ready to change the name to VNBoards yet, or do I have to be permabanned twice first?

Your attitude (and frankly, ignorance) that employees should do nothing but slave for idiots all day long in obscenely boring office jobs with no way to 'recharge' for a few minutes is the problem, not the opinion that people at work should primarily be doing...you know...work? Key word: PRIMARILY. It's up to management to get off their lazy %)$@*&!es and actually set metrics and standards, and when people AREN'T meeting them, take action. Course, if you're on the interwebz messing around with social media and get fired for making your company look the fool...then you deserve it. But reading CNN, or Pinside, or something pretty benign for a minute or two to clear the cobwebs and drudgery? Yeah, nobody deserves to be fired, or even written up for it.

If you're going to reduce a person to being a "valued employee" vs. "worthless piece of trash get out of my office you slacker" over 325/YEAR in "lost productivity" that you can't even prove (and every recent study has utterly contradicted in terms of web browsing) because they're still hitting or exceeding the targets you set....then yeah...you're pretty much a scumbag running Wal-Mart at that point. Raise the metrics if you want more productivity, but you better be prepared to back it up when everyone on the team suddenly starts failing them because they've become utterly unreasonable and you have no productive way to coach people on how to meet them reliably, since you were so concerned with it.

Oh f--k off with you...You're free to make your points, except when you wipe yourself with the rules, which clearly are no politics. Nobody else felt the need to breech that here.

Stop it. You and I aren't supposed to agree on anything.