Salary.com put out a study saying that most of you don't deserve the salary you're being paid. OK, that's not what it says, but it does suggest that the average worker wastes 1.7 hours out of an 8.5 hour day.

What qualifies as waste? Chatting with coworkers, doing personal business during work hours, and oh yeah, personal internet surfing tops the list with 34 percent of survey respondents saying they spend time online performing activities that have nothing to do with their jobs.

Our favorite stats from the survey are the list of reasons people gave for slacking off:

• 18 percent said they were bored and/or had nothing to do
• 13.9 percent said their work hours were too long
• 11.8 percent said they were underpaid
• 11.1 percent said their work wasn't challenging enough

It's not clear how any of those (except perhaps the first) justifies spending time playing online video games or surfing web sites. (Download Squad doesn't count. Reading this blog keeps you informed and is thus vital to your job security, no matter what your job is).