I read an article the other day that said more and more bosses are becoming aware of their employees' need for Internet access. I don't believe that. Has anybody, anywhere, in any office actually seen somebody who is doing work on the Internet? Get real. Half the people in my office are on there looking for other jobs.

The speaker skewers late-20th/early-21st-century managerial rhetoric about the productivity benefits of workplace internet access. By contrasting an upbeat article about enlightened bosses with the blunt question of whether anyone has ever seen “work” done online, the quote frames the internet as a site of distraction and, more pointedly, of employee dissatisfaction. The punchline—workers using the web to search for other jobs—turns internet access into an index of organizational failure: when morale and retention are weak, connectivity empowers exit rather than performance. The humor depends on exaggeration (“half the people”), but the underlying critique is about surveillance, trust, and the mismatch between corporate narratives and lived office reality.