First of all it's rude to type in caps. It means you're shouting.
You can use the phone for family emergencies not the internet. That way you are using your own and not company resources.
People are fired for using the internet for personal use. This matter has been to the courts and the judgements have always been in the employer's favor:
"A 2005 survey of 526 businesses and organizations by the ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association found that 76 percent of them monitor the sites that their employees visit, and 65 percent block certain sites. At least 55 percent of them review and retain employees' email, and 36 percent track the content on workers' PCs, their keystrokes, and the time that they spend at the keyboard. Lost productivity is a major concern: Last spring, some companies blocked streaming video during the NCAA men's college basketball tournament. Even so, more than 14 million fans accessed video from the NCAA March Madness on Demand Web site during the first three rounds of the tournament, according to CBS SportsLine; and considering the starting times of the games, many of them likely did so from work."
Whether we like it or not companies are within their right to do this. And if you are allowed to do it don't think they aren't aware of every word you're typing!
First of all it's rude to type in caps. It means you're shouting.
You can use the phone for family emergencies not the internet. That way you are using your own and not company resources.
People are fired for using the internet for personal use. This matter has been to the courts and the judgements have always been in the employer's favor:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126835/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125597-page,1/article.html
"A 2005 survey of 526 businesses and organizations by the ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association found that 76 percent of them monitor the sites that their employees visit, and 65 percent block certain sites. At least 55 percent of them review and retain employees' email, and 36 percent track the content on workers' PCs, their keystrokes, and the time that they spend at the keyboard. Lost productivity is a major concern: Last spring, some companies blocked streaming video during the NCAA men's college basketball tournament. Even so, more than 14 million fans accessed video from the NCAA March Madness on Demand Web site during the first three rounds of the tournament, according to CBS SportsLine; and considering the starting times of the games, many of them likely did so from work."
Whether we like it or not companies are within their right to do this. And if you are allowed to do it don't think they aren't aware of every word you're typing!