Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
I agree... some would call this stealing. I wonder how many of those who are so fast to label others but use their employers bandwidth would object to being called thieves. Anyone want to fess up?
As one of those "fast to label", I'll go ahead and answer so you don't think I'm avoiding the question.

I use some of my employer's bandwidth for personal business -- not sites like this, because I'm not stupid -- as well as pens, paper clips and an occasional ream of paper. I also use my own bandwidth for work after hours, my own toner to print work documents at home and I average 30% more hours each week than I'm salaried for as well as being ~1000% more productive than most of the other developers there (not an exaggeration, we've done studies). My employer's aware of these things and has no issue with it.

The comparison's nice, but I'm not sure there's a moral equivalency between causing emotional pain to someone who loves you and whom you, ostensibly love and visiting Amazon on the clock.