Over the past two days my computer has become increasingly slow, and I’ve begun to realize that the IT department has begun monitoring my and others’ internet usage. The idea truly amazes me as I’m required to spend a lot of time online researching and editing pages. With the internet moving at a snails pace, it’s becoming immensely annoying to do any work at all. Actually, just now my browser crashed with only two tabs only and a page loading. None of this makes much sense. The measure of an employee, while some monitoring is necessary, should be based on productivity and not on if they visit their fantasy baseball page twice a day. Some website activity should, obviously, be monitored and squashed as quickly as possible (pornography especially), but the simple action of accessing a personal blog and dumping text shouldn’t be something to monitor every day. As I said, this isn’t something that has been happening for a long time, just for the past two days. Anyway, I’m going to see if this damn thing is going to start working again.