Who among you here is gambling at work?

[summonerrk]

There is a story in the company where I work now that a guy who played slots on the job was fired a year ago. At the same time, it was the boss. It turned out that due to problems in his family, he was extremely depressed. Every working day at lunch, he went to his car, got drunk and played slots there. And then he would come back and, having no strength to stop, he would play in the workplace.

I don't understand his logic - how could you lose such a career..?

[noormcs5]

I have several colleagues and I personally gambler, so far we have been fine even though we work and use the time to play several rounds of games.
There is no worry, no panic because we just entertain ourselves and use as much money as we can afford to lose.
It all just depends on how each gambler has an attitude and can work well, being professional at work is the main thing but that doesn't mean we can't do things that entertain ourselves in work environment.

You must be doing office type work of job and therefore you and your colleagues get time to gamble. If your job is to sit on the table all day in front of the computer then no doubt you will find time to gamble and it won't effect your job too. But again this depend upon job to job basis, like if someone is doing a physical job, then it may be hard to get time to gamble at the same time during the working hours.

I still think that gambling at work, is not a best of the thing to do. Even if you have time to gamble, maybe you will not be able to enjoy the game properly while being in the office.
Wouldn't gambling is better and fun when you are free at the comfort of your home. By the way, every person has their own preferences, so i will not enforce my point of view on others neither i should say that my way of doing gambling (at home) is better.

[moneystery]

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We should be able to differentiate between work and play. And because gambling is included in the game and not an activity that we must do immediately, we should be able to choose the right time to gamble.
We cannot take the risk of gambling while we are at work. That is the same as putting us at risk and will also result in us being fired from our jobs. Work and fun can go together, but we know how risky gambling can be, which can make us lose control.
If they were truly responsible, it might still be possible, but gambling while at work is not necessary.

that's right, a worker must be able to differentiate between priorities and entertainment. when they work, it means they have to focus on what they are doing, don't focus on other things that have nothing to do with their current job. if a worker chooses to gamble or do other activities, it means he is not focused on his work and this could be a reason for his boss to fire him and replace him with someone who wants to take his place who is more focused on work.

and a wise person should be able to position himself when he should gamble and when he should work.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

~snip~
But still, within the scope of work, whether you want to hide it or by controlling it, over time you can find out, whether your friend or boss finds out, and if your friend doesn't like you, your friend could report it to your boss, so your job could be threatened just because you gambled on the spot work, in my opinion this is a trivial problem that over time becomes a big problem, you may at first just take the time to gamble but over time if you feel safe you will spend more time because you feel more fun gambling at work if you have like this will certainly be a big problem for your work.

Yes, because you think too much about gambling so you can't stop yourself from gambling even though you're working, it's better to stop that action if you want to keeping working at your placed, don't take too big risky because you're just an employee who has to comply with work regulation.

Yeah, you're right.

At the end of the day you have to be smart about your life.

If you are at work, simply work and don't do anything else, gambling or social media while working could potentially backfire at you, so why bother.

It's the safest approach to simply work at your work hours.

     -   That's right, let's put gambling in the right place. It seems like there is no difference in driving a four-wheel vehicle if you don't drive while using a mobile phone. Because it can cause an accident that can cost us our lives in an instant.

It's the same with work: when we play gambling online at the same time, the real consequences of that are that we or you can lose your job just because we want to play gambling. There is nothing stopping us from gambling, as long as we put it in the right place.

[Iroh]

Yeah, you're right.

At the end of the day you have to be smart about your life.

If you are at work, simply work and don't do anything else, gambling or social media while working could potentially backfire at you, so why bother.

It's the safest approach to simply work at your work hours.

It’s surely the safest approach. Why do anything else during work hours than the actual work assignments and for which you’re being paid.
Social media would only distract you from whatever tasks you’ve got and you’ll end up burning more time than initially intended. Gambling in my opinion, is much worse at after placing bets and maybe losing out on the bets placed, it could emotionally affect the person which could in turn affect the work performance of the person.
I doubt anyone would still feel motivated at work after losing some good money while gambling at work.

[kenshi222]

But still, within the scope of work, whether you want to hide it or by controlling it, over time you can find out, whether your friend or boss finds out, and if your friend doesn't like you, your friend could report it to your boss, so your job could be threatened just because you gambled on the spot work, in my opinion this is a trivial problem that over time becomes a big problem, you may at first just take the time to gamble but over time if you feel safe you will spend more time because you feel more fun gambling at work if you have like this will certainly be a big problem for your work.

Yes, because you think too much about gambling so you can't stop yourself from gambling even though you're working, it's better to stop that action if you want to keeping working at your placed, don't take too big risky because you're just an employee who has to comply with work regulation.

The work is not same for all the people,Some people are at the top position in their office.For them the office will provide the separate work room,So they can easily use the gambling at their work place.But to the gamblers who work as the team members will be monitor by the manager or the owner of the company.So they can’t pay the gambling with peace of mind,peace of mind was the important one for the gamblers to play the good game and to make the big money from the same gambling site.

The friends or colleagues in your company may monitor your game at the work place.They also use that way of approaching manger for the benefit and show your game play to the manger.Finally it leads to the termination of your job.It may be done by your own friends for the benefit of the appraisal and for the abroad opportunity by skipping you by showing the game play in the office hours which reduce your fame to the company.

[junder]

~snip~
Of course, this is not recommend by workers, let alone drinking alcoholic beverages, son't do things thats are which is not allowed within the scope of work if you don't want to be sanction or fired for doing thing that are infringed by anyone whose superior will definitely not accepted seeing their subordinate doing that during working hours, unless you do it outside of works then it won't be a problem and won't interfere with your work.

Yeah, although the thing is that if you manage to do those things in a more controlled way, you might be able to get away with it.

If you only gamble at work from time to time, it's not really a big deal.

The issue appears when you start consuming too much time. That's the key. Because you lose focus and attention, which are critical and scarce resources.

But still, within the scope of work, whether you want to hide it or by controlling it, over time you can find out, whether your friend or boss finds out, and if your friend doesn't like you, your friend could report it to your boss, so your job could be threatened just because you gambled on the spot work, in my opinion this is a trivial problem that over time becomes a big problem, you may at first just take the time to gamble but over time if you feel safe you will spend more time because you feel more fun gambling at work if you have like this will certainly be a big problem for your work.

Yes, because you think too much about gambling so you can't stop yourself from gambling even though you're working, it's better to stop that action if you want to keeping working at your placed, don't take too big risky because you're just an employee who has to comply with work regulation.

Yes, that's true, just like the saying "as clever as you are at hiding the corpse flower, over time you will smell it too". This could happen, in my opinion, in the work environment there will definitely be people who don't like us because basically humans tend to have an attitude of not wanting to lose, so it's possible that there will be people who are like referees who only look for our mistakes and report them to their superiors. However, even so, you should not gamble in the work environment or during work hours, because it is an unethical act.

I agree with you, in the beginning you may only spend a short time gambling, but it can turn into a long time if the gambling you do has hypnotized us, although there are some people who think "it depends on their job" but in my opinion this still shouldn't be done. during working hours, because basically we have to work professionally, do our best for the job in order to get a promotion or salary, our superiors will also definitely see our good performance. It's impossible for superiors to remain silent if they see that our performance is good, especially if it has a big positive impact on the company.

[maydna]

Yeah, you're right.

At the end of the day you have to be smart about your life.

If you are at work, simply work and don't do anything else, gambling or social media while working could potentially backfire at you, so why bother.

It's the safest approach to simply work at your work hours.

It’s surely the safest approach. Why do anything else during work hours than the actual work assignments and for which you’re being paid.
Social media would only distract you from whatever tasks you’ve got and you’ll end up burning more time than initially intended. Gambling in my opinion, is much worse at after placing bets and maybe losing out on the bets placed, it could emotionally affect the person which could in turn affect the work performance of the person.
I doubt anyone would still feel motivated at work after losing some good money while gambling at work.

When we are at work, we are required to work well with good performance, which requires focus from us so we can complete the work given to us. If we use even a small part of our working time to do other things, such as social media or even gambling, we cannot appreciate our work, which has given us money. Meanwhile, out there, there are still many people who are scrambling to get jobs that can make money, but instead, we waste this opportunity by using our work time to do things that are outside our work. And it is true that if someone has experienced defeat in gambling, he can lose motivation to work, which can cause his work performance to decrease. In the end, it will only make him unable to complete his work well.

[EarnOnVictor]

~snip~
Of course, this is not recommend by workers, let alone drinking alcoholic beverages, son't do things thats are which is not allowed within the scope of work if you don't want to be sanction or fired for doing thing that are infringed by anyone whose superior will definitely not accepted seeing their subordinate doing that during working hours, unless you do it outside of works then it won't be a problem and won't interfere with your work.

Yeah, although the thing is that if you manage to do those things in a more controlled way, you might be able to get away with it.

If you only gamble at work from time to time, it's not really a big deal.

The issue appears when you start consuming too much time. That's the key. Because you lose focus and attention, which are critical and scarce resources.

Like I said in my last reply here, it depends on the nature of the job. Some jobs will allow you to do some other things, while others will not allow you to do it, but in all, we should always gamble with discipline. It is not all time we allow it to engross us, we should have resistance to say no too and know the best time we are free to gamble more politely. I am not entirely speaking against gambling at work when the person is free, they can do it if what they want to gamble is so pressing and important. For example, if it is the match that will be late if they do not gamble at that time.

This is still very reasonable, but telling me that you are playing casino while at work for no just cause is so irresponsible to me. It really shows what you are and such may not be serious with his life. Instead of gambling at that time due to freedom, why not use that time to do better your life and do more productive things? Why not read books, watch documentaries if the place permits such, or try to learn new things or seek information that you didn't know. I mean that information that can add value to your life. After all, it will be as though that working hour is not a waste, instead of gambling at that accountable hour.

[klidex]

~snip~

The work is not same for all the people,Some people are at the top position in their office.For them the office will provide the separate work room,So they can easily use the gambling at their work place.But to the gamblers who work as the team members will be monitor by the manager or the owner of the company.So they can’t pay the gambling with peace of mind,peace of mind was the important one for the gamblers to play the good game and to make the big money from the same gambling site.

The friends or colleagues in your company may monitor your game at the work place.They also use that way of approaching manger for the benefit and show your game play to the manger.Finally it leads to the termination of your job.It may be done by your own friends for the benefit of the appraisal and for the abroad opportunity by skipping you by showing the game play in the office hours which reduce your fame to the company.

Yes, indeed someone who work is in a differents position and in my opinion this depend on your position in the office. If you are a manager or superior, then there is no right for subordinates to reprimand you because your rank is greater, even though someone is given the facilities. In his own room he is free to do whatever he wants because no one is watching him unless the CCTV is pointing at his work so the boss can know what you are doing with your worked. And this goes back to the fact that gambling required peace, even if you are bored with your work, you should not gamble at work because it can becomes a bad habit over times.

Yes, friends who don't like us will always have a way to find our faults and if they have found a loophole in our fault they will be happy and report it to their superior, causing problems for our work, therefore it is better to use our times as best as possible so that people those who don't like us have no chances of making our name bad in the eyes the company.

[ethereumhunter]

Yes, friends who don't like us will always have a way to find our faults and if they have found a loophole in our fault they will be happy and report it to their superior, causing problems for our work, therefore it is better to use our times as best as possible so that people those who don't like us have no chances of making our name bad in the eyes the company.

We often encounter this in many types of work. A friend once told me about the tough competition at his company. Some relatives don't like the results of my friend's work even though my friend's boss knows that my friend can be relied on. But for various reasons, his relations tried to bring down my friend. But because my friend's boss knows how my friend works, my friend's boss prefers my friend and kicks his relationship or gets fired

Competition in the workplace is fierce. We will never know who really likes us and who hates us. Those who hate us may pretend to be good in front of us but try to bring us down behind our backs. That is why we should not take any risks at work. If we want to gamble, we should not gamble at work. Unless we are a boss at our workplace, we can gamble in our room and forbid anyone from entering our room if we don't call him.

[noormcs5]

Yeah, although the thing is that if you manage to do those things in a more controlled way, you might be able to get away with it.
If you only gamble at work from time to time, it's not really a big deal.

Even if anyone is able to handle the office work perfectly and at the same time, they gamble within office during the office hours but does ti allowed by the office ?
I mean will the office give this permission to employees to gamble and do other task while they are at work ? Most of the gamblers will not tell their bosses that they are doing gambling and will be doing it hiddenly. I think no one even have the dare to disclose that he is gambling at work ?

The issue appears when you start consuming too much time. That's the key. Because you lose focus and attention, which are critical and scarce resources.

Of course if you start to give more time to gambling and less time and focus to the office work, it will not only affect your own performance but at the same time, it will have a bad impact on the overall business from whom we are being hired to work on. I still think if you are sincere to your work, do not gamble at the work time. Better dedicate full time to work during the working hours and when you want to gamble, you should not be at the office. There are ample time after office hours where you can gamble and enjoy.

[Fredomago]

Yes, friends who don't like us will always have a way to find our faults and if they have found a loophole in our fault they will be happy and report it to their superior, causing problems for our work, therefore it is better to use our times as best as possible so that people those who don't like us have no chances of making our name bad in the eyes the company.

We often encounter this in many types of work. A friend once told me about the tough competition at his company. Some relatives don't like the results of my friend's work even though my friend's boss knows that my friend can be relied on. But for various reasons, his relations tried to bring down my friend. But because my friend's boss knows how my friend works, my friend's boss prefers my friend and kicks his relationship or gets fired

Competition in the workplace is fierce. We will never know who really likes us and who hates us. Those who hate us may pretend to be good in front of us but try to bring us down behind our backs. That is why we should not take any risks at work. If we want to gamble, we should not gamble at work. Unless we are a boss at our workplace, we can gamble in our room and forbid anyone from entering our room if we don't call him.

yeah right, those who we thinks are close to us sometimes are the one who wanted us out, job relationship most of the time is more on backfigthing, they are good in front but behind us they are trying to kick us out, better not to give them reason to accomplish what they wanted to happen.

If we want to play then we should play after work, use your spare time and money and enjoy whatever type of gambling that we are
involve with, that's the sure thing not to risk your financial source of income.

[ethereumhunter]

yeah right, those who we thinks are close to us sometimes are the one who wanted us out, job relationship most of the time is more on backfigthing, they are good in front but behind us they are trying to kick us out, better not to give them reason to accomplish what they wanted to happen.

If we want to play then we should play after work, use your spare time and money and enjoy whatever type of gambling that we are
involve with, that's the sure thing not to risk your financial source of income.

Yes, many employees give us fake smiles and pretend to like what we do when they are looking to throw us out of the company or office using all the means they can get. We will feel disappointed and annoyed if we are fired from the office because of trivial problems that we can easily avoid as long as we have self-control. We have to take good care of ourselves while working so that they don't do things that could harm us.

We must understand when we can gamble and when we have to work. We don't need to gamble at the office to avoid problems, especially if our workplace provides income for us so we can meet our daily needs.

[danherbias07]

Yeah, you're right.

At the end of the day you have to be smart about your life.

If you are at work, simply work and don't do anything else, gambling or social media while working could potentially backfire at you, so why bother.

It's the safest approach to simply work at your work hours.

It’s surely the safest approach. Why do anything else during work hours than the actual work assignments and for which you’re being paid.
Social media would only distract you from whatever tasks you’ve got and you’ll end up burning more time than initially intended. Gambling in my opinion, is much worse at after placing bets and maybe losing out on the bets placed, it could emotionally affect the person which could in turn affect the work performance of the person.
I doubt anyone would still feel motivated at work after losing some good money while gambling at work.

So correct. I can say because I've been there. Not gambling, but social media. It will eat a lot of your time at work and you will never even notice the time passing by until your time at work is almost over and you are not even a little productive. What more when you combine gambling and social media at work? I bet an employee would not even do any work the whole day he is there sitting in front of the computer.
That's why the owner of the business decided to tell our computer technician to make an internet blocker that would stop us from doing it because he saw how low the production was. The technician was successful at blocking it and the owner was thankful that he saw some changes in our production.

I've never seen anyone who gambled at work yet but when the Zynga Poker on Facebook was a big trend, many employees do play that game and I am actually one who did that too. It's not gambling because there's really no money involved unless you buy the chips just so you can play the game more the whole day. That I never did. 
Don't do this both, it's just a waste of time, we have our breaks, and we can check our social media or gamble for a bit on our smartphone if we want to but when we sit down in front of our job, we should be focused.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Yeah, you're right.

At the end of the day you have to be smart about your life.

If you are at work, simply work and don't do anything else, gambling or social media while working could potentially backfire at you, so why bother.

It's the safest approach to simply work at your work hours.

It’s surely the safest approach. Why do anything else during work hours than the actual work assignments and for which you’re being paid.
Social media would only distract you from whatever tasks you’ve got and you’ll end up burning more time than initially intended. Gambling in my opinion, is much worse at after placing bets and maybe losing out on the bets placed, it could emotionally affect the person which could in turn affect the work performance of the person.
I doubt anyone would still feel motivated at work after losing some good money while gambling at work.

Well, sorry but I have to disagree with your both of you, a little play while at work does not cause any distraction except the person is lazy and doesn't want to work., during work hours, there is always a break or  lunch time, this time usually is like one hour long or more for some companies, this time is a time a worker can use to do whatever he or she likes and wants to do, like taking a nap, watching a movie, playing video games, having lunch, visiting a friend who lives nearby, escorting a friend somewhere and so on.

A worker instead of doing any of the above in their free time at work might choose to rather play some gambling games, just for fun by the way, this is nothing wrong to do, as long as the worker does not allow what ever be the outcome of his or her gambling affect his or her productivity at work.
When I was working, we usually go and play lotto in a nearby lotto shop in our free time at work, never have the outcome go the lotto I played affect my productivity at work, only a worker who is lazy and doesn't want to work will use outcome of a gambling as an excuse to why they are unable to meet up with their work target.

[Wapfika]

I've never seen anyone who gambled at work yet but when the Zynga Poker on Facebook was a big trend, many employees do play that game and I am actually one who did that too. It's not gambling because there's really no money involved unless you buy the chips just so you can play the game more the whole day. That I never did. 
Don't do this both, it's just a waste of time, we have our breaks, and we can check our social media or gamble for a bit on our smartphone if we want to but when we sit down in front of our job, we should be focused.

Is solitaire counted here because I play a lot of this game while working since I always have some waiting time when waiting my clients feedback on submitted proposals. 

You are lucky in your company that facebook is allowed to access back in the days when Zynga poker is popular. Smart phone is not that popular that time which means there’s no other means to play at work than using the PC. Seriously, Who have the courage to play at work here especially gambling while you will risk tainting your career once you are caught. Worst is you will be banned on companies that has connection to your current employer.

[Viscore]

I've never seen anyone who gambled at work yet but when the Zynga Poker on Facebook was a big trend, many employees do play that game and I am actually one who did that too. It's not gambling because there's really no money involved unless you buy the chips just so you can play the game more the whole day. That I never did. 
Don't do this both, it's just a waste of time, we have our breaks, and we can check our social media or gamble for a bit on our smartphone if we want to but when we sit down in front of our job, we should be focused.

Is solitaire counted here because I play a lot of this game while working since I always have some waiting time when waiting my clients feedback on submitted proposals. 

You are lucky in your company that facebook is allowed to access back in the days when Zynga poker is popular. Smart phone is not that popular that time which means there’s no other means to play at work than using the PC. Seriously, Who have the courage to play at work here especially gambling while you will risk tainting your career once you are caught. Worst is you will be banned on companies that has connection to your current employer.

Do you gamble on solitaire? I think you are referring to playing a game but not gambling. That thing could not be allowed as well as it makes employees unproductive but gambling is quite different, it has an after effect that an employee might be disturb when he loss and will not be effective the rest of the game, more so if the act has been repetitive already, it's already causing a lot of resources of the company which does not produce output.

[madnessteat]

^

If an employee spends work time on personal activities or entertainment, the employer will obviously not like it. And it makes no difference whether you are gambling, scrolling through your favorite social network or something else. In your free time you can do whatever you want, but at work you just have to spend all your time on work.

Whether to follow it or not everyone decides for himself, but we all know how nice it is to do our own things.

[EarnOnVictor]

I've never seen anyone who gambled at work yet but when the Zynga Poker on Facebook was a big trend, many employees do play that game and I am actually one who did that too. It's not gambling because there's really no money involved unless you buy the chips just so you can play the game more the whole day. That I never did. 
Don't do this both, it's just a waste of time, we have our breaks, and we can check our social media or gamble for a bit on our smartphone if we want to but when we sit down in front of our job, we should be focused.

Is solitaire counted here because I play a lot of this game while working since I always have some waiting time when waiting my clients feedback on submitted proposals. 

You are lucky in your company that facebook is allowed to access back in the days when Zynga poker is popular. Smart phone is not that popular that time which means there’s no other means to play at work than using the PC. Seriously, Who have the courage to play at work here especially gambling while you will risk tainting your career once you are caught. Worst is you will be banned on companies that has connection to your current employer.

Things are different these days and I know that it wasn't so possible in the olden days, this is even as the casinos you would want to bet with were not many then, so you might not even find the online ones of your choice at that time, not to talk of the mobile version. The companies I worked for at that time though gave computers with internet connection but limited the usage. While the mobile platform to bet was scarce because those who even started then only allowed the PC version, and coupled that the company policy will not allow you to use the internet during working hours, it wasn't encouraging at that hour.

They've set their computer in such a way that you can only have access to intranet during the office hours, and immediately after office hours which was always 5 PM of my local time, you usually have every access to the internet. But still, there is a limit to what you can do with the office computer and internet, or else, you might be speedily showing yourself the very way out of your feeding means. This is not worth it even if gambling was allowed then.