I always wonder when I read stories like these: what if you had connected your personal laptop to the Internet, and worked on your own projects? You wrote that

I always wonder when I read stories like these: what if you had connected your personal laptop to the Internet, and worked on your own projects? You wrote that you had no "work task", so I guess you asked for some and you got none. Why do you have to do something that "looks like work" then, if you're not the one to blame?