[Monty Python mode] Able to access the web before or after work, or in meal breaks - you were lucky.[/Monty Python mode] The company I last worked for considered accessing the net for non-work related reasons, using E-mail for non-work related purposes, or playing computer games (Solitaire, Free Cell etc.), even in meal breaks, to be misuse of company resources and (technically, at least) a firing offence!