What a wonderful discussion! I am going to copy this to a document for the president of the company (just the discussion - not the identities, dates and other stuff). I would like the company to be a little more hard-nosed about policies. Unfortunately there is no IT budget, so all we can respond to is what we actually see in front of our faces.

Now if only I can figure out how to get the employees' children to stop using the printer paper, styrofoam cups (why are we providing those for employees?), paper plates, etc. The children are ever so clever at hiding what they use (in trash cans, in storage areas, on monitors)...

And in case anyone reading this is wondering, yes - the office allows children in the office and some of us are very unhappy about it. No, there is no daycare/homework area (which would make having the children here all right) - other than THE CONFERENCE ROOM. Due to these children, I have already had to spend several hours downloading and running Ad-Aware, uninstalling software and doing other things.