For the record, I've found that people like you are generally not the problem. People like yourself (and myself for that matter) tend to get assigned more work

For the record, I've found that people like you are generally not the problem. People like yourself (and myself for that matter) tend to get assigned more work because they are responsible enough to ask for a new assignment once they've completed the old one. This means you have an endless supply of work, some of which you end up taking home with you. But the reality of that endless supply of work means that you spend most of your office time on it. The people who tend to abuse workplace Internet are those who don't ask for more work but instead sit around and wait until someone comes and gives them more work. This delay leads to a lot of personal Internet time. Something else to remember is that Broadband Penetration in the U.S. is still only at 57% which means a lot of these people (who are in the lower income level to begin with due to their lack of initiative) don't have high speed internet at home. Which leads them to do most if not all of their personal web surfing at work.