CHARLES ANGELICH wrote
 
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> Here is a more recent survey:
 
> http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?article
 
> "Peer-to-peer file-sharing software for trading music, movies
 
 Yeah, yet another activity for office workers that
 I suppose wasn't around during the earlier survay.
 
> From what I've personally observed accusing these
> people of running their own businesses using their
> employer's computer would be giving them _way_ too
> much credit.
 
 See my reply to Roy about the squirrelly guy who
 wanted to sue. These people must have very
 distorted egos.
 
 But I don't know how accurate your picture of the
 situation is going to be, or is already, due to
 the series of downsizings over the past few
 years. A relative at a company that had a a major
 overhaul about a year ago says his office is
 running smoothly with -less than half- of the
 staff they had before, and apparently performing
 the same job as before. Which says something....
 
> What I saw was passing joke emails around (much
> the way FAX was abused in years past), looking for
> cheap air-fares and auto rentals to plan their
> next vacation, and for some unfathomable reason
> typing up 'banners' to tape, pin, and hang all
> over the office _everywhere_.
 
 

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