Tracy, I must admit I recently turned "chatter" off for an extended period and got lots of work done...
Whoa! I mean, I got lots of work done before that, as well. Please don't tell my boss I was wasting time!
But wait- does *your* employer know you waste 3 hours a day gossiping on UT? Well, they soon will. Bwahahahahaha.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1