Shadowmonkey said: "As for a idea that maybe I was miss using the internet on company time, I would refer my self to the company policy. This clearly states that I was intituled to use the Internet if permission was granted (which it was). I could use the Internet in free time and on quiet time, which were the periods within which I used it." An employee is entitled to a warning first if his employers don't like what he's viewing after having told him that he actually can use the net while at work, and I think an Employment Tribunal would agree, assuming no other factors exist that we don't know about.