You're slipping
*It seems to me that you can't expect human personal lives to completely disappear when they come into work.*
If you give a luser an inch... If you feel that the policy is absurd then change it. But once a policy is in place it's not the BOFH's place to question it, only to enforce it. And realistically speaking, clamping down on luser abuse of Internet connection makes an admin's job so much easier. Because it's easier to prevent than to fix.