I am online at work. In fact I'm at work while I type this! They DO monitor internet usage and I'm always afraid my boss is going to call me into her office and show me my internet history. Yet I still do it.

My job gets incredibly boring the last 2 weeks of the month and I got sick of constantly begging for more work to do, so I just pretend I'm working to seem useful. If I keep emphasizing the fact that I have no work to do, they may eliminate my position. Yet, spending 8 hours a day online doesn't exactly protect my job!

I've tried using Content Advisor in Internet Explorer to block internet, specifically allowing sites I need for work like Wells Fargo. That worked for a while, until I got so desperate I went home and Googled the way to remove the password to Content Advisor. (I had set the password to something random which I didn't write down, so I wouldn't get back in)

I tried installing a parental control software, but our computers at work are set to not allow any new program installs without an administrator password.

My next option is to admit to my boss that I have a problem, and have my internet privileges completely revoked. But this is very scary. She could fire me for what I've done, and without internet there are certain aspects of my job I could not complete so they would have to re-assign those tasks.

My husband has parental controls set up at home to block specific sites that I've had problems with in the past. But I still surf way too much. Our computer is able to block certain times of the day, but it doesn't have a way to allow a specific time limit per day, like 1 hour of time online in the 24 hour period. I've seen some other parental control packages that do this, but they're more expensive.