How does ilx affect you working day? (sorry if it’s been done before, but I’ve just realised I’m spending a lot of time here)

thank god there is ILX

People will waste time at work any way they see fit. Monitor their internet and start blocking things they'll just go back to the watercooler or start reading magazines in their cubes.

July is my busiest month, and ILX helped me out last year with the extended crash.

I got to work at five to eight the other day and spotted my manager's car already in the car park. So, I went up to see why he was in early.

"Lots of work to do," he said, "because I'm taking Friday off." We chatted about my current tasks for a bit, then he said, "Right, better get on - as I said, I've got a lot to pack in this week." And with that, he settled back in his chair and started idly leafing through a trade magazine.

For the past few months I estimate I've worked about 4% of the time I've been paid for. Of the remaining 96%, about 30% has been spent on ILX, 10% on other websites (BBC.news, guardian, salon, popjustice), 5% stood in the kitchen gossiping with not-goodwin, with the remainder on personal stuff like writing, organising fun stuff like DJ sets and ringing people for a chat and to arrange nightlife happenings. I'm pretty sure I'm up there with the very worst employees this department has ever seen but it's ok as I'm leaving in less than a month. I'm not proud of being so bad, it's mostly due to the fact that I can get away with it and there's little incentive to work hard.

Without ILX my day would a lot cruddier. I intend to push this new DWP big bro monitoring system to the limit, I'll play the fall guy for stonemonkey and not-goodwin, I'll take the rap for you guys..

Me, I make it a point to avoid ILX like the plague during working hours. When I'm in school, I'll use the Internet for scholastic purposes, but out of school, I'd rather not be caught doing something my employers might consider a fireable offense. And knowing my luck, the first day I'd use ILX full-on during work would be the first day the supervising tech-y people would catch me doing stuff online and, *snap*, gone just like that. I think ILX is (for the most part) great, but I'd like to save that greatness for when I get home.

My birthday is tomorrow and I really don't even feel like celebrating. These people have become a metaphor of life. There is no communicating with them on any rational level--what's the point? Is that all there is?