Who among you here is gambling at work?

[maydna]

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Yeah, it is easier to keep yourself busy with other things that bring you positive things to your life.

If you don't have other things in your life it is easy to get addicted because there are no other fun things to do.

And addiction works because it is fun and enjoyable for the person. At least in the beginning.

Well, if they don't try, they won't know what the results will be by busying themselves with other things. And surely it will bring positive things to their lives. It is indeed difficult to break the gambling cycle, and it requires hard work to stop gambling activities, especially if they have been gambling for a long time. But if they succeed in breaking the gambling cycle, they can see that they have succeeded in reducing or even abandoning gambling, and that will allow them to work calmly and will not want to risk losing their job. It is better for them to be addicted to work than to be addicted to gambling because if they are addicted to work, they can try to find additional work that can make extra money.

[xSkylarx]

Work time should always be work time, as you are getting paid to do work. Unless there are times that you are free and have nothing to do, you can do it without using the devices in the office. I used to do it in my office only when I was free because the seniors would see you if you are not doing your job, like not being able to complete the task given to you. Also right now because of the work-from-home setup a lot of gamblers are doing this unless they have a company that they are micromanaging, so they can't do it. The focus is very different when you gamble while at work, it is better when you are already out of shift.

[Blitzboy]

Sometimes I think that work is the last place to gamble, because humans are not robots and cant perform multitasking perfectly in everything. If a person has a lot of free time at work, then he is either slacking, or could have helped others. Gambling parallel working isnt good either. Hard to concentrate on two things simultaneously. Chances of loosing in gambling are higher, and it will be not wise to blame work for a loss later. Imo unethical to gamble, while other are busy, and gambling should be done during free time. Using same devices that are used for work is unacceptable and dangerous. A person would really look stupid if his working pc/laptop/tablet gets bug, virus or simply battery runs out because he visit various gambling sites.

What if a little friendly wagering on mundane professional duties could spice up board meetings? I admit multitasking is a fiction. Combining gambling with serious labour is like riding two horses with one behind - it doesnt work. Using gambling as a reward system? Finish a duty, then enjoy some guilt-free betting on your favourite site. Its like a carrot on a stick, pushing us to tackle our to-do lists.

If we dont abandon our jobs or use the office Wi-Fi for wagering, a little harmless gaming could make us happier and more comfortable at work. Imagine a world where a tiny win may make daily work more bearable.

[Oilacris]

Work time should always be work time, as you are getting paid to do work. Unless there are times that you are free and have nothing to do, you can do it without using the devices in the office. I used to do it in my office only when I was free because the seniors would see you if you are not doing your job, like not being able to complete the task given to you. Also right now because of the work-from-home setup a lot of gamblers are doing this unless they have a company that they are micromanaging, so they can't do it. The focus is very different when you gamble while at work, it is better when you are already out of shift.

Should really be the thing on your mind is on having those priorities over with your own interest because if you do have that kind of behavior on which trying out to prioritize things on which in line with your own interest and really just neglecting your work or having those kind of lack of efficiency then you are really that putting yourself at such great trouble. This is why it would really be that important that you should really know on what you are doing at least and on what are the decisions that you are making because if you do put up yourself on such scenario on where you do prioritize on playing
gambling while at work then high chances that you would be losing that work completely and if you do have some mouths to feed or simply having a family? then youre fucked up.

[STT]

My old boss at the cake factory would carry around a small portable TV with him, way back in the days before phones became so convenient it was very unusual.  He would watch the sports in the evenings on it and get overtime pay while relaxing on a pallet of flour bags perhaps, living that dream on a nice extra wage.   He may have gambled some of that extra money on the games he was watching I was never in the place to ask such a question of my boss but certainly we can say some people are in a nicer position when working to gamble if they like.
  Delivery drivers and Taxi I often see waiting for their next appointment they could easily watch a game and/or gamble if they wanted while waiting.    I would still say its a distraction but justified in some way as some people do have jobs where waiting around for the next business is part of the work to it all.

[Julien_Olynpic]

There's actually nothing wrong with playing at work. It all depends on what you play and what kind of work you actually have. Of course, if you are a neurosurgeon and are performing a complex operation on a patient, then you will not be able to play at this time. You will also not be able to play while driving a car. Although I have heard of people placing sports bets in a car while they were standing at an intersection at a traffic light.
     But if you have long natural breaks at work that there is nothing to fill and your work does not require too much responsibility, then nothing prevents you from playing during the break. But I would not recommend playing for money.

[nullama]

There's actually nothing wrong with playing at work. It all depends on what you play and what kind of work you actually have. Of course, if you are a neurosurgeon and are performing a complex operation on a patient, then you will not be able to play at this time. You will also not be able to play while driving a car. Although I have heard of people placing sports bets in a car while they were standing at an intersection at a traffic light.
     But if you have long natural breaks at work that there is nothing to fill and your work does not require too much responsibility, then nothing prevents you from playing during the break. But I would not recommend playing for money.

I agree.

But it is only fine as long as it is comparable to what most people do, say, browse social media, etc.

If you actually start to get drawn too much into it, and start panicking with your losses, etc, then you will have a bad time.

[bakasabo]

Sometimes I think that work is the last place to gamble, because humans are not robots and cant perform multitasking perfectly in everything. If a person has a lot of free time at work, then he is either slacking, or could have helped others. Gambling parallel working isnt good either. Hard to concentrate on two things simultaneously. Chances of loosing in gambling are higher, and it will be not wise to blame work for a loss later. Imo unethical to gamble, while other are busy, and gambling should be done during free time. Using same devices that are used for work is unacceptable and dangerous. A person would really look stupid if his working pc/laptop/tablet gets bug, virus or simply battery runs out because he visit various gambling sites.

What if a little friendly wagering on mundane professional duties could spice up board meetings? I admit multitasking is a fiction. Combining gambling with serious labour is like riding two horses with one behind - it doesnt work. Using gambling as a reward system? Finish a duty, then enjoy some guilt-free betting on your favourite site. Its like a carrot on a stick, pushing us to tackle our to-do lists.

If we dont abandon our jobs or use the office Wi-Fi for wagering, a little harmless gaming could make us happier and more comfortable at work. Imagine a world where a tiny win may make daily work more bearable.

Imo it is also wrong for people to rush doing their duties just to have free time. If employer sees that, he might give extra work easily, thinking you are doing little for the money you are paid.

I agree that a tiny win at work makes daily work more enjoyable. But what if it a tiny loss, or not tiny at all? Its very wrong if negative attitude from a loss will be moved to working process, colleagues, final result. Basically this is risking job in exchange for a tiny win. Is it really worth it?

In general I find it unacceptable if I share with colleagues during coffee, that I have gambled recently at work, instead of discussing life trifles or chat. Definitely I wont find support in their eyes.

[ethereumhunter]

There's actually nothing wrong with playing at work. It all depends on what you play and what kind of work you actually have. Of course, if you are a neurosurgeon and are performing a complex operation on a patient, then you will not be able to play at this time. You will also not be able to play while driving a car. Although I have heard of people placing sports bets in a car while they were standing at an intersection at a traffic light.
     But if you have long natural breaks at work that there is nothing to fill and your work does not require too much responsibility, then nothing prevents you from playing during the break. But I would not recommend playing for money.

They can gamble at work as long as they can be responsible for what they do. But we must remember that gambling provides a temptation for them so that they can gamble excessively so that they cannot be responsible with themselves and their work. Maybe some people have been punished because they were caught gambling at work and maybe some have been fired. Instead of taking the risk of losing our jobs, it is better for us not to gamble at work because there are people who like and dislike us, are always looking for faults, and intend to bring us down in front of our superiors. This has happened frequently in many workplaces, so we must know where we are. And it is also for our good not to gamble at work.

[Negotiation]

Sometimes I think that work is the last place to gamble, because humans are not robots and cant perform multitasking perfectly in everything. If a person has a lot of free time at work, then he is either slacking, or could have helped others. Gambling parallel working isnt good either. Hard to concentrate on two things simultaneously. Chances of loosing in gambling are higher, and it will be not wise to blame work for a loss later. Imo unethical to gamble, while other are busy, and gambling should be done during free time. Using same devices that are used for work is unacceptable and dangerous. A person would really look stupid if his working pc/laptop/tablet gets bug, virus or simply battery runs out because he visit various gambling sites.

What if a little friendly wagering on mundane professional duties could spice up board meetings? I admit multitasking is a fiction. Combining gambling with serious labour is like riding two horses with one behind - it doesnt work. Using gambling as a reward system? Finish a duty, then enjoy some guilt-free betting on your favourite site. Its like a carrot on a stick, pushing us to tackle our to-do lists.

If we dont abandon our jobs or use the office Wi-Fi for wagering, a little harmless gaming could make us happier and more comfortable at work. Imagine a world where a tiny win may make daily work more bearable.

Yes it's true that if you don't gamble at work it won't affect your performance. If there is more attention to gambling it will be leisure time. It is interesting to note that most gamblers do not do it to win. Only a small number of players benefit. If someone is determined to achieve gambling goals they should avoid the game gambling should be a form of entertainment except at work and losing money should be considered an entertainment expense.

[wxa7115]

My old boss at the cake factory would carry around a small portable TV with him, way back in the days before phones became so convenient it was very unusual.  He would watch the sports in the evenings on it and get overtime pay while relaxing on a pallet of flour bags perhaps, living that dream on a nice extra wage.   He may have gambled some of that extra money on the games he was watching I was never in the place to ask such a question of my boss but certainly we can say some people are in a nicer position when working to gamble if they like.
  Delivery drivers and Taxi I often see waiting for their next appointment they could easily watch a game and/or gamble if they wanted while waiting.    I would still say its a distraction but justified in some way as some people do have jobs where waiting around for the next business is part of the work to it all.

If you are the boss, part of the higher ups or an external contractor then you can get away with things other employees may not be able to do, however someone that does not have that kind of independence and that needs their job, should do well to err on the side of caution and avoid gambling while they are at their job.

Since you never know when the company for which you work may cut some personal, and they could let you go because the higher-ups do not feel that you are giving it your all since you gamble at work.

[Fredomago]

There's actually nothing wrong with playing at work. It all depends on what you play and what kind of work you actually have. Of course, if you are a neurosurgeon and are performing a complex operation on a patient, then you will not be able to play at this time. You will also not be able to play while driving a car. Although I have heard of people placing sports bets in a car while they were standing at an intersection at a traffic light.
     But if you have long natural breaks at work that there is nothing to fill and your work does not require too much responsibility, then nothing prevents you from playing during the break. But I would not recommend playing for money.

They can gamble at work as long as they can be responsible for what they do. But we must remember that gambling provides a temptation for them so that they can gamble excessively so that they cannot be responsible with themselves and their work. Maybe some people have been punished because they were caught gambling at work and maybe some have been fired. Instead of taking the risk of losing our jobs, it is better for us not to gamble at work because there are people who like and dislike us, are always looking for faults, and intend to bring us down in front of our superiors. This has happened frequently in many workplaces, so we must know where we are. And it is also for our good not to gamble at work.

It's easy to say that you can gamble and be responsible but the thing is, when temptation already dominates you that's where the problem will start to take place, if you unable to control yourself and you are not that good in setting your limitation, you might risk both your money and the job that you should be taking care, it's  mental issue that needed to control. Without that you will always find yourself following your desire and you will be sacrificing everything for the sake of your gambling activities.

It's a must that you should know how to set that limitation if you can' resist the need of playing, though I always have that doubt that it can be balance but maybe there are some who can deal with it and they are really good in controlling their emotions.

[EarnOnVictor]

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Like what I mentioned,  it's better to separate your gambling activities to your work schedule,  if you don't want to create any messed with your job, you should take all the responsibilities and complete what you are being paid for, the leisure should  be separated as it should be done outside your workplace,  being professional is also  being responsible,  else, you will both messing with your financial source and your potential gambling addiction.

Hopefully, we never get involved in unnecessary things like that so we can focus on our work. We must not allow ourselves to be defeated by desires that tell us to gamble wherever we are because we are in control of ourselves. By always remembering where we are and what we are doing, we hope that we can position ourselves well and that nothing will interfere with our work. We don't want to be fired by our office because we gamble, which we can do after work. We must try to be professionals at work even though we don't have a position because we are accepted to work to have income that can be used to meet our daily needs.

Thank you for this advice, and I am baffled with some responses on this thread at times as some will even encourage such a bad attitude. Your work is your work and gambling is gambling, the two should not mix. Even if you can't control the urge to gamble at work, that means that you should be extra careful because something might be fishy and will never be good for the person. Imagine, even at the time of doing the work that delivers to you your daily bread, you can check your gambling platform many times in just an hour, and you think that is still normal? This is an addiction and it is not too late to stop it, and the earlier such is fought, the better.

I've fought a whole lot of app addiction like that before and I won easily, it only takes some awareness of the conclusion of whether what you are doing is right or wrong. Once you can reasonably conclude that it is wrong, then the determination and discipline to fight it are what you should reach out for. Once you can be successful in fighting it in a day, or two and going to the fourth day, I am certain that you will have defeated it, and you will not even remember you have such a bad practice any more. But it will persist if we are idiotic and believing that we are doing what is good while it is actually bad. Even if you are not caught or penalised by anyone at work, it is morally right that you are focused on what you are doing unless it is just the type of job that is so informal or that gives the free time/room for that.

[Betwrong]

There's actually nothing wrong with playing at work. It all depends on what you play and what kind of work you actually have. Of course, if you are a neurosurgeon and are performing a complex operation on a patient, then you will not be able to play at this time. You will also not be able to play while driving a car. Although I have heard of people placing sports bets in a car while they were standing at an intersection at a traffic light.
     But if you have long natural breaks at work that there is nothing to fill and your work does not require too much responsibility, then nothing prevents you from playing during the break. But I would not recommend playing for money.

Well, it's not gambling then, is it? If you are not betting your money you can easily forget about it right away and keep doing your main job. It will hardly be the case if a serious amount of money is at stake. Then you will be thinking of it even when you are not on a gambling site and it can be distractive. If you don't recommend playing for money, in short, you don't recommend gambling at work, I would say.

[maydna]

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Thank you for this advice, and I am baffled with some responses on this thread at times as some will even encourage such a bad attitude. Your work is your work and gambling is gambling, the two should not mix. Even if you can't control the urge to gamble at work, that means that you should be extra careful because something might be fishy and will never be good for the person. Imagine, even at the time of doing the work that delivers to you your daily bread, you can check your gambling platform many times in just an hour, and you think that is still normal? This is an addiction and it is not too late to stop it, and the earlier such is fought, the better.

I've fought a whole lot of app addiction like that before and I won easily, it only takes some awareness of the conclusion of whether what you are doing is right or wrong. Once you can reasonably conclude that it is wrong, then the determination and discipline to fight it are what you should reach out for. Once you can be successful in fighting it in a day, or two and going to the fourth day, I am certain that you will have defeated it, and you will not even remember you have such a bad practice any more. But it will persist if we are idiotic and believing that we are doing what is good while it is actually bad. Even if you are not caught or penalised by anyone at work, it is morally right that you are focused on what you are doing unless it is just the type of job that is so informal or that gives the free time/room for that.

Yes, gambling and work should not be combined because they are two different things. Work can provide us with income that we can use to meet our daily needs. Meanwhile, gambling is an activity that can provide pleasure, sadness, entertainment, and so on. And we are not allowed to gamble at work because it violates workplace regulations. We must know that the workplace is for work while we can gamble wherever we want when we are not doing anything or have free time. But that doesn't mean that if we take a break at work, we can gamble because this will depend on the situation and conditions at the workplace.

Yes, we have to conclude whether our actions are right or wrong. Let's just ask our little hearts how we would feel if, for example, we were a boss and saw that our employees were gambling at work. We don't want our workplace to tolerate this attitude because other employees will do other things at work where there are already regulations that we cannot do outside of work. After all, it can interfere with our performance. We cannot be indifferent to this because we have been accepted to work at our workplace, and we should be able to respect it by working as well as possible. We can't waste it because finding work is very difficult nowadays and we must face tough competition. If accepted for work, we still must compete with other employees to show our achievements.

[STT]

In the immortal words of Tony Soprano, you dont S*** where you eat for good reasons.   Dont try to mix oil with water, it doesnt especially work and on general principle gambling while at work should be underlined with heavy caution.   I know some people will do it anyway but since you gamble the money you earn, to compromise one with the other is potentially dangerous and you wont have any money to gamble if the job should be lost by gambling and heavily distracted during work.
   Some people could balance this perhaps but its best to presume you wont or it would develop into a negative not worth it.  Add in the other side which is just general balance of not gambling all the time, take time out to work, rest not gamble too much is massively arguable and good advice imo

[Lorence.xD]

Nah, gambling is considered as a personal interest of a person or habits which you shouldn't bring to your work. Just imagine this, you take a bath at work, sleep, eat, do your laundry, etc. do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Just apply it to gambling at work, there's a discipline and being a responsible employee that tou have task to do, not to sht around by betting your salary when you are on duty. Your time is getting paid so that time you would be contributing by just simply doing your work. Maybe gambling after work or break time it's up to you. Don't combine this two cause not for the gambler but for the company's sake also for you not lose your job.

[borovichok]

Nah, gambling is considered as a personal interest of a person or habits which you shouldn't bring to your work.

True! Working and gambling shouldn't go together. To work effectively means staying alert both emotionally, physically, and mentally and gambling can deny us that emotional, physical, and mental alertness.

Gambling at work is very wrong and against job ethics and it can affect productivity. When we gamble and lose at work, it becomes difficult to concentrate. Sometimes, our relationship with other colleagues is affected since losing at work can cause mood swings.

[the rise]

Nah, gambling is considered as a personal interest of a person or habits which you shouldn't bring to your work. Just imagine this, you take a bath at work, sleep, eat, do your laundry, etc. do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Just apply it to gambling at work, there's a discipline and being a responsible employee that tou have task to do, not to sht around by betting your salary when you are on duty. Your time is getting paid so that time you would be contributing by just simply doing your work. Maybe gambling after work or break time it's up to you. Don't combine this two cause not for the gambler but for the company's sake also for you not lose your job.

sacrificing work because of gambling will make us suffer much more, generally most people lose when gambling, plus there is a risk that we gamble at our time or at work, the first thing that comes to my mind is what if I lose gambling and I being fired from work, it is very scary, it is better not to combine the two because it will be very dangerous financially

[Fredomago]

Nah, gambling is considered as a personal interest of a person or habits which you shouldn't bring to your work. Just imagine this, you take a bath at work, sleep, eat, do your laundry, etc. do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Just apply it to gambling at work, there's a discipline and being a responsible employee that tou have task to do, not to sht around by betting your salary when you are on duty. Your time is getting paid so that time you would be contributing by just simply doing your work. Maybe gambling after work or break time it's up to you. Don't combine this two cause not for the gambler but for the company's sake also for you not lose your job.

sacrificing work because of gambling will make us suffer much more, generally most people lose when gambling, plus there is a risk that we gamble at our time or at work, the first thing that comes to my mind is what if I lose gambling and I being fired from work, it is very scary, it is better not to combine the two because it will be very dangerous financially

And that's always a possibility as if you'll be caught by your boss chances to lose your job is the next thing to happen  to you, there's always a place for your gambling and it should not be done during your paid hours inside your workplace,  plus the fact  that you can lose your money and your emotions can also be affected.

Most of the time, gamblers who lose money got emotional swings, being a hot-temper might affect also your relationship with your workmates. Can result as well in losing your job.