This is clearly a dig at me.

My posting on MS during ‘work time’ i.e the ‘standard’ 9-5 doesn’t mean I work any less hard or care about my job any less. The way my job is, the way I operate and the tasks I have to do mean that sometimes I find a break from concentrating on the task at hand useful, and I find MS is good for that.

I’ve been posting on various forums for 4 years and during that time have been promoted three times.

Some people wander round the office chatting or gossiping at the watercooler instead - I don’t, I come here.

In some jobs ‘desk/office’ time is paramount. But the way I work I find I’m at my most useful at certain times in the day – sometimes that is on the weekend, sometimes that is before 9am, sometimes its after 5pm.

The bottom line is that my problems at work have nothing to do with my activity here. If anything it keeps me marginally sane because I don’t have anyone I can confide in here.