Who among you here is gambling at work?

[entertheabyss]

even for unprofessional work, it still requires their professionalism to be able to provide the best work by not doing anything other than their work. if they want to gamble or something else, they can do it outside of their working hours, not when they are doing their work. because each has their own responsibilities and when people take their work too lightly by gambling during work, it means they are not fit to be employed.

We have responsibilities that need to be taken care of without complain and they ought to be done swiftly. We work to earn a living in the system, and we also keep schedules that either deprived us of our time to execute other projects, the work man handles is tough, and all these numerous activities is mainly to feed the family and foot into his own bills. Gambling at work doesn't come easy, the gambler in question is making quite enough sacrifice to ensure he stays on the lane of becoming useful to himself at his own end and possibly not get carry away by the intriguing profits generated.

[Gormicsta]

Gambling during working hours isn't that insanity? Because your attention would be divided between your job and the gambling you are playing as it will make you not to concentrate in your work place. No matter the passion you have for gambling never gamble at your workplace as anything that would put your job at a stake should be avoided because that's where you earn your major income from so you shouldn't joke with it all.

There are different sets of workers we have in society: those who take their work very seriously and do it with passion, and those who are just there for the pay and are not deriving joy from the work. They always end up doing other things whenever they are left unsupervised. Most of this set of workers are those who work in government sectors.
 
Anyone who cherishes their job and focuses on how to bring maximum productivity to the industry will focus on improving the organisation and not on things that will drag it back. Only those who are not concerned with organisational goals can gamble in their work place, and such people can always end up bringing setbacks to the organisation.

It’s also possible that someone who still respects their job can gamble out of addiction (even if they are trying to be free from it). But like I said earlier, anyone who gambles during work for whatsoever reason should get fired, unless the job is not a professional one. You can gamble before or after, not just on duty. If I was the employer, I’d assume such person doesn’t have respect for the company and doesn’t know work ethics.

Stigma is a big issue when it comes to gambling addiction. Many people are afraid to talk about it because they're worried about being judged or shamed. They may also be afraid of losing their job or damaging their reputation. But the reality is that gambling addiction is a treatable condition, and it's important for people to get the help they need. Employers can play a big role in breaking down the stigma by educating their employees about the signs of gambling addiction and encouraging them to seek help if they need it and not to fire them on charge of unprofessionalism.

[Fortify]

I'd like to share my experience with you all. Even though I'm not currently employed, I went through a phase of gambling while I was working in the past, and the outcome wasn't positive. It affected my job performance because, as you may know, when you lose, you tend to dwell on your losses and constantly think about strategies to win. When we talk about work, it usually means we're not particularly wealthy, and imagine what happens when we gamble money we can't afford to lose, especially when we're not earning much.

Let me tell you, the feeling is far from pleasant. It leads to a decline in your work performance, which can have significant consequences since that's your primary source of income. It might be manageable if you're winning, but the harsh reality is often quite the opposite. Even when we do win, we tend to spend most of our winnings, so we don't treat it as business money. This leaves us in a precarious situation when we lose because the money we initially budgeted for our families gets diverted to cover unexpected gambling-related expenses.

I'd like to hear from those of you who have experienced this or are still dealing with it. Please share your testimonies.

I keep what little gambling I do to outside of work, as it is a leisure time activity and if you're incapable of setting boundaries it could lead down a slippery slope to things like addiction. If you are feeling the urge that bad to gamble throughout the whole day, it's quite possible that you have a problem that should be worked on or it could end up at a very expensive final destination. Maybe I'm lucky, but I enjoy my job which means that most of the day is filled with activities that keep me busy, although in the past there have been jobs where this sort of boredom could set in. One thing to consider is you're at work to earn money, so it seems a bit silly to be throwing it away as you're sat around earning it.

[oktana]

Gambling during working hours isn't that insanity? Because your attention would be divided between your job and the gambling you are playing as it will make you not to concentrate in your work place. No matter the passion you have for gambling never gamble at your workplace as anything that would put your job at a stake should be avoided because that's where you earn your major income from so you shouldn't joke with it all.

There are different sets of workers we have in society: those who take their work very seriously and do it with passion, and those who are just there for the pay and are not deriving joy from the work. They always end up doing other things whenever they are left unsupervised. Most of this set of workers are those who work in government sectors.
 
Anyone who cherishes their job and focuses on how to bring maximum productivity to the industry will focus on improving the organisation and not on things that will drag it back. Only those who are not concerned with organisational goals can gamble in their work place, and such people can always end up bringing setbacks to the organisation.

It’s also possible that someone who still respects their job can gamble out of addiction (even if they are trying to be free from it). But like I said earlier, anyone who gambles during work for whatsoever reason should get fired, unless the job is not a professional one. You can gamble before or after, not just on duty. If I was the employer, I’d assume such person doesn’t have respect for the company and doesn’t know work ethics.

Stigma is a big issue when it comes to gambling addiction. Many people are afraid to talk about it because they're worried about being judged or shamed. They may also be afraid of losing their job or damaging their reputation. But the reality is that gambling addiction is a treatable condition, and it's important for people to get the help they need. Employers can play a big role in breaking down the stigma by educating their employees about the signs of gambling addiction and encouraging them to seek help if they need it and not to fire them on charge of unprofessionalism.

Your last sentence is a misunderstanding because I do not talk about carelessly firing the employee. If you check my last response in this thread, I mentioned advising and addressing the employee before you take the action of letting them go. Helping the employee also depends if the employee even wants help (because one can need help and not want it). Nonetheless, an employer doesn’t owe an employee anything, out of being humane, they can talk and advise the employee and even go as far as getting them a therapist. I am a humane person but if it happens that your gambling problem is really affecting the company, you should get replaced or the company suffers loss from the likely unproductive-ness.

[TopTort777]

But like I said earlier, anyone who gambles during work for whatsoever reason should get fired, unless the job is not a professional one. You can gamble before or after, not just on duty. If I was the employer, I’d assume such person doesn’t have respect for the company and doesn’t know work ethics.

Suppose you are an employee, who job depends on a results and work of others. Suppose you sit at the office and wait when somebody does calculations and give you numbers. So you say that while waiting, I am not allowed to anything else except work? You are CFO, you do things things monthly, when results are calculated, do major thing once a quarter. You say that such person must be fired?

Suppose I am not a professional. But I have a job contract where 1,2,3....X work duties are mentioned. What should I do if I have done them all? Should I work slower instead, so that my work will be unstoppable? Or should I then run through the office and ask if someone require any help?

I work on a delivery and wait for orders. Or work on a production and wait for supply delivery, which is being late due to rain, or broken tyre. Low level work. If you were my boss, you would have fire me, because "I do nothing at work". Brilliant logic.

Don’t get me wrong. My point is mainly about the unprofessionalism and the performance issue that comes with it. Theres a lot of emotions that comes with gambling, and if it happens to be the wrong emotion… what then do you think will happen to your performance (answer as a human being which you are)?

We’re all different people and see things differently, but I think it is wrong and very unprofessional to gamble during work hours (not just my idea but it’s a general idea).

Maybe I got your post wrong, but for me it sound like "work or get fire. in case there is no work - continue working". I understand that gambling results can cast impact on quality of work done. I agree, that is not acceptable. But if you have spare time at work, your free time does not endanger others life, why not spend this time they way you want. Like picking nose, reading new or playing Candy Crash are something different than gambling for same 10 minutes ?

[sompitonov]

I'd like to share my experience with you all. Even though I'm not currently employed, I went through a phase of gambling while I was working in the past, and the outcome wasn't positive. It affected my job performance because, as you may know, when you lose, you tend to dwell on your losses and constantly think about strategies to win. When we talk about work, it usually means we're not particularly wealthy, and imagine what happens when we gamble money we can't afford to lose, especially when we're not earning much.

Let me tell you, the feeling is far from pleasant. It leads to a decline in your work performance, which can have significant consequences since that's your primary source of income. It might be manageable if you're winning, but the harsh reality is often quite the opposite. Even when we do win, we tend to spend most of our winnings, so we don't treat it as business money. This leaves us in a precarious situation when we lose because the money we initially budgeted for our families gets diverted to cover unexpected gambling-related expenses.

I'd like to hear from those of you who have experienced this or are still dealing with it. Please share your testimonies.

There is a need to place boundaries in our life activities to avoid misuse of our time. But sometimes you will be tempted to check your phone to check your games in sports bets. In some cases, I have seen some of my colleagues secretly go to the restroom where there are no CCTV cameras to place bets which is against work ethics. But l I have seen cases when an employee unconsciously screamed in the banking hall while performing his duties because he lost a bet. It was quite embarrassing and I know he would be sanctioned for that.  Some employees can be sacked because they use work time for gambling and it affects their job performance.

I work in an organisation where you are not permitted to use your phones at the workplace not even during breaks. So I have been spared the temptation of placing bets in my office. But I prefer gambling during weekends when I am in a comfortable and relaxed mood.  This will increase concentration and reduce hasty bets. The best way to deal with such abnormal behaviour is to stay away from phones and plan your gambling time.    

I made bets at work when no one was looking and I can say that it slows down the pace of work and my thoughts become scattered. Despite the fact that the work was not very responsible and I realized that I would no longer do this. It’s a completely different matter if a player wants to place bets on a mobile phone when he has a very important job at the moment, for example, he is driving people on a bus and is constantly distracted to check the score in a football match. This can lead to an accident and people may die, but the driver does not attach any importance to this. I am sure that no one would want to be a passenger on such a bus.

Ultimately, it is best for me to do it in a calm atmosphere at home, so as not to wait for the boss to punish us for this or for our hobby to cause harm to people.

[ethereumhunter]

Stigma is a big issue when it comes to gambling addiction. Many people are afraid to talk about it because they're worried about being judged or shamed. They may also be afraid of losing their job or damaging their reputation. But the reality is that gambling addiction is a treatable condition, and it's important for people to get the help they need. Employers can play a big role in breaking down the stigma by educating their employees about the signs of gambling addiction and encouraging them to seek help if they need it and not to fire them on charge of unprofessionalism.

Instead of afraid of losing their jobs our damage their reputations, they don't have to playing gambling at work because that can be the thing that can ruin their reputations if someone or the other employee see they playing gambling. They should take care themselves well at work and stay away for temporary from gambling sites especially if they are resting for a while. They don't have to tell to other employees because they don't know what is their friends reaction if they know their friend often playing gambling. A company gives their rule to all of their employee to obey and not break the rule because that can make them get punishment and the worst thing is get fired from their company.

It's not worth if we get fired from our jobs because of playing gambling so we must take care ourselves and works as usual so we can give our good performance to the company. Let the company knows that we are one of many employee that will give our best to the company so we can get rewards from the company. That will be better to us as we can be the best employee in our work and know how to works for our company.

[Negotiation]

even for unprofessional work, it still requires their professionalism to be able to provide the best work by not doing anything other than their work. if they want to gamble or something else, they can do it outside of their working hours, not when they are doing their work. because each has their own responsibilities and when people take their work too lightly by gambling during work, it means they are not fit to be employed.

We have responsibilities that need to be taken care of without complain and they ought to be done swiftly. We work to earn a living in the system, and we also keep schedules that either deprived us of our time to execute other projects, the work man handles is tough, and all these numerous activities is mainly to feed the family and foot into his own bills. Gambling at work doesn't come easy, the gambler in question is making quite enough sacrifice to ensure he stays on the lane of becoming useful to himself at his own end and possibly not get carry away by the intriguing profits generated.

A man has to go to work to earn a living in that case if someone gambles negligently, he may be deprived of his job which will adversely affect his normal life. Gambling in the workplace should not be true. Gambling should be a leisure time with which family evil will not have any influence. Humans have hidden instincts that can cause harm to themselves or others just as there are urges of the intellect or stings of conscience. Who is responsible for these negative and destructive instincts hidden in people thinking about their own good gambling should not be done at work.

[moneystery]

It’s also possible that someone who still respects their job can gamble out of addiction (even if they are trying to be free from it). But like I said earlier, anyone who gambles during work for whatsoever reason should get fired, unless the job is not a professional one. You can gamble before or after, not just on duty. If I was the employer, I’d assume such person doesn’t have respect for the company and doesn’t know work ethics.

even for unprofessional work, it still requires their professionalism to be able to provide the best work by not doing anything other than their work. if they want to gamble or something else, they can do it outside of their working hours, not when they are doing their work. because each has their own responsibilities and when people take their work too lightly by gambling during work, it means they are not fit to be employed.

Professional or unprofessional it wont matter. Hard work and focus is something that it is really needed. If you do find yourself that not be able to avoid or cant resist gambling temptation on the
time that you do made up some work then potential problems could really be created and this is something which it isnt really that recommended on doing so since you would really be putting
up your work at risks and this is something that not recommendable.If you can risk on losing your job then its your choice, but to think that there would be no person on their right minds would be doing
so specially if he is totally relying with his monthly paycheck. This is why if you do have that gambling urge then better save it for later.

risking your job just to gamble during working hours is quite a stupid act. because gambling can be done whenever he wants, there is no need to do it during working hours. supposedly if he is smart, he can do it when he gets home from work or on the weekend, he can gamble all day until he gets tired. so there is no reason that a person is justified in gambling during working hours just because he cannot control his urge to gamble or is too bored at work.

[Hypnosis00]

risking your job just to gamble during working hours is quite a stupid act. because gambling can be done whenever he wants, there is no need to do it during working hours. supposedly if he is smart, he can do it when he gets home from work or on the weekend, he can gamble all day until he gets tired. so there is no reason that a person is justified in gambling during working hours just because he cannot control his urge to gamble or is too bored at work.

This is doable if you are playing a casino game. However, if you are betting on sports and the schedule coincides with your working hours, you might be tempted to gamble to avoid missing the action. Additionally, since you are gambling, you may need to check the scores or watch a live stream, which typically consumes a significant amount of time. This is clearly taking time away from your work, making you less effective and you'll likely get fired anytime soon.

[danadc]

even for unprofessional work, it still requires their professionalism to be able to provide the best work by not doing anything other than their work. if they want to gamble or something else, they can do it outside of their working hours, not when they are doing their work. because each has their own responsibilities and when people take their work too lightly by gambling during work, it means they are not fit to be employed.

We have responsibilities that need to be taken care of without complain and they ought to be done swiftly. We work to earn a living in the system, and we also keep schedules that either deprived us of our time to execute other projects, the work man handles is tough, and all these numerous activities is mainly to feed the family and foot into his own bills. Gambling at work doesn't come easy, the gambler in question is making quite enough sacrifice to ensure he stays on the lane of becoming useful to himself at his own end and possibly not get carry away by the intriguing profits generated.

A man has to go to work to earn a living in that case if someone gambles negligently, he may be deprived of his job which will adversely affect his normal life. Gambling in the workplace should not be true. Gambling should be a leisure time with which family evil will not have any influence. Humans have hidden instincts that can cause harm to themselves or others just as there are urges of the intellect or stings of conscience. Who is responsible for these negative and destructive instincts hidden in people thinking about their own good gambling should not be done at work.

Gambling has always been one of the things that people should take care of themselves, and what they should take care of most is addiction, but also if you do it from your job it is something that I see as a lack of respect, because in a job, a company, that is, any type, the hours of dedication to the job must be respected, it is not well seen that the cases are like that because basically the cases can look very bad, being glued to a telephone playing is not good at all , that is accepted in a teenager or anyone else as long as they are not in a job, but a job must be respected.

The person who does not hold out and starts playing at work and sporuq has a problem with the game and must fix that, he is not healthy and must attack quickly otherwise he will be filled with doubts and problems will begin, this is what causes a lot instability in people afterwards and can they risk being fired and for playing? It's not worth it.

[Natalim]

risking your job just to gamble during working hours is quite a stupid act. because gambling can be done whenever he wants, there is no need to do it during working hours. supposedly if he is smart, he can do it when he gets home from work or on the weekend, he can gamble all day until he gets tired. so there is no reason that a person is justified in gambling during working hours just because he cannot control his urge to gamble or is too bored at work.

This is doable if you are playing a casino game. However, if you are betting on sports and the schedule coincides with your working hours, you might be tempted to gamble to avoid missing the action. Additionally, since you are gambling, you may need to check the scores or watch a live stream, which typically consumes a significant amount of time. This is clearly taking time away from your work, making you less effective and you'll likely get fired anytime soon.

The stress is high for sports betting since normally games would end like 3 hours, I'm referring to basketball particularly NBA. And if you are following a lot of schedules at a given day, you'll end up consuming the entire 4 to 5 hours just to be updated of what is happening. I think any games could be stressful but it still depends on how you handle yourselves, but since we know that is the risk, a company will just try to ensure that it will not happen, so their measures is making prevention on this.

[teamsherry]

Gambling at work is not a good working ethics even if it's your private life, when we lose we often get emotional and it affect us in different ways, like me I could get angry and want to stay alone to reminisce my loss, but at times I also don't care, just depends how the loss came, nothing hurts more than when I lose by one game those kind of conditions piss me off.

Gambling in general has a kind of psychological effect on us cause we then to get disappointed when we lose and its best for us to develop a good habit around it cause when ever we lose it causes us to want to stake again.

[junder]

A man has to go to work to earn a living in that case if someone gambles negligently, he may be deprived of his job which will adversely affect his normal life. Gambling in the workplace should not be true. Gambling should be a leisure time with which family evil will not have any influence. Humans have hidden instincts that can cause harm to themselves or others just as there are urges of the intellect or stings of conscience. Who is responsible for these negative and destructive instincts hidden in people thinking about their own good gambling should not be done at work.

Of course the purpose of working is to get a living or income which is to fulfill our basic needs. It is true that you said that if you do gambling at work, it is likely that it could cause problems and worse, it could make us lose the job that has become our own livelihood point. Because in my opinion, not all company bosses like gambling even if there are people who like gambling, maybe the boss will not allow gambling during working hours. Because they think it can reduce the performance of our work.

In my opinion, if we already have a job then we should be able to be responsible for the work we have. Even though there is an urge from ourselves to do gambling, it does not mean that we have to gamble at work, because in my opinion it should not be done, gambling must be played comfortably so do gambling at a slow time like after work, the point is to be able to divide time well, not to do things that can trigger problems, because it will bring disaster like gambling during working hours it is not recommended.

[Gheka]

It’s also possible that someone who still respects their job can gamble out of addiction (even if they are trying to be free from it). But like I said earlier, anyone who gambles during work for whatsoever reason should get fired, unless the job is not a professional one. You can gamble before or after, not just on duty. If I was the employer, I’d assume such person doesn’t have respect for the company and doesn’t know work ethics.

even for unprofessional work, it still requires their professionalism to be able to provide the best work by not doing anything other than their work. if they want to gamble or something else, they can do it outside of their working hours, not when they are doing their work. because each has their own responsibilities and when people take their work too lightly by gambling during work, it means they are not fit to be employed.

Yes, because of such distractions, information technology departments in companies regularly upgrade access restrictions to gambling websites as well as absolutely prohibit such gathering behaviors, no matter what role one is in, one needs to use all one's energy for that job, distracting yourself to an emotional game like gambling only makes the work session more difficult. People who are not professional in using their minds will use their hands and feet to work and with such volume, gambling will not interfere when we are in a working state.

[oktana]

Gambling at work is not a good working ethics even if it's your private life, when we lose we often get emotional and it affect us in different ways, like me I could get angry and want to stay alone to reminisce my loss, but at times I also don't care, just depends how the loss came, nothing hurts more than when I lose by one game those kind of conditions piss me off.

Gambling in general has a kind of psychological effect on us cause we then to get disappointed when we lose and its best for us to develop a good habit around it cause when ever we lose it causes us to want to stake again.

You understand the point. Some people may say it’s their life and their time, but not every job will tell you what not to do. For example, some companies have the rule that you do not engage in gambling at work. While others don’t mention it, it’s best to be smart and know what is appropriate for work. Or how to maintain a good work ethics.

[TopTort777]

Gambling at work is not a good working ethics even if it's your private life, when we lose we often get emotional and it affect us in different ways, like me I could get angry and want to stay alone to reminisce my loss, but at times I also don't care, just depends how the loss came, nothing hurts more than when I lose by one game those kind of conditions piss me off.

Gambling in general has a kind of psychological effect on us cause we then to get disappointed when we lose and its best for us to develop a good habit around it cause when ever we lose it causes us to want to stake again.

You understand the point. Some people may say it’s their life and their time, but not every job will tell you what not to do. For example, some companies have the rule that you do not engage in gambling at work. While others don’t mention it, it’s best to be smart and know what is appropriate for work. Or how to maintain a good work ethics.

Of course there are jobs where it is unethical to gamble during work, even sitting or holding a mobile phone in hand is prohibited. But to claim that gambling at work is bad at every kind of job is something  I cant agree with. Freelancers also do some kind of job, at home. They should not gamble at work either? Or take my job. All the work is connected with pc or mobile. I can do my work from the office, at home at the sofa, even while being abroad in the pool with margarita cocktail. Not because I am a big boss or nobody controls my work. But because my boss is oriented on the result, but not how it will be achieved. All he cares is that work must be done.

[Quidat]

Gambling at work is not a good working ethics even if it's your private life, when we lose we often get emotional and it affect us in different ways, like me I could get angry and want to stay alone to reminisce my loss, but at times I also don't care, just depends how the loss came, nothing hurts more than when I lose by one game those kind of conditions piss me off.

Gambling in general has a kind of psychological effect on us cause we then to get disappointed when we lose and its best for us to develop a good habit around it cause when ever we lose it causes us to want to stake again.

You understand the point. Some people may say it’s their life and their time, but not every job will tell you what not to do. For example, some companies have the rule that you do not engage in gambling at work. While others don’t mention it, it’s best to be smart and know what is appropriate for work. Or how to maintain a good work ethics.

Of course there are jobs where it is unethical to gamble during work, even sitting or holding a mobile phone in hand is prohibited. But to claim that gambling at work is bad at every kind of job is something  I cant agree with. Freelancers also do some kind of job, at home. They should not gamble at work either? Or take my job. All the work is connected with pc or mobile. I can do my work from the office, at home at the sofa, even while being abroad in the pool with margarita cocktail. Not because I am a big boss or nobody controls my work. But because my boss is oriented on the result, but not how it will be achieved. All he cares is that work must be done.

I do agree into your point that this would really be also depending on what kind of work you do have whether if its office based or a field based one on which it is possible that you could really be able to paly gambling when you do have an office work compared into those who are at field on which it is really that safety hazard or really very dangerous on losing up your focus. This is why
it would really be just that depending on what work you do have but in overall or frankly saying that its never been good to play or whatever things that you would be doing in working hours.
You arent that getting paid for making up those activities but rather you are paid on doing with your job, you could do the rest when you do get home.

[TopTort777]

I do agree into your point that this would really be also depending on what kind of work you do have whether if its office based or a field based one on which it is possible that you could really be able to paly gambling when you do have an office work compared into those who are at field on which it is really that safety hazard or really very dangerous on losing up your focus. This is why
it would really be just that depending on what work you do have but in overall or frankly saying that its never been good to play or whatever things that you would be doing in working hours.
You arent that getting paid for making up those activities but rather you are paid on doing with your job, you could do the rest when you do get home.

You know, many of us, forum members, read and post on the forum during their working hours. Many use work PC to read news, some watch YouTube parallel working. Some might take a pause (without asking others) and out for 5-15minutes for a smoke. Other might have a stomach problems and run to WC every few hours. If we have a working days from 9 to 5, it does not mean that we starting working at 9, and finish at 5, and between those hours we only work-work-work-work. Frankly, we slack a lot during working hours. So where is that gap between reading news at work (meaning not work) and gambling for the same 5-15min (meaning not working)? Why it is not good to gamble, but to got out and smoke every hours and with every colleague is ok?

[ethereumhunter]

because of such distractions, information technology departments in companies regularly upgrade access restrictions to gambling websites as well as absolutely prohibit such gathering behaviors, no matter what role one is in, one needs to use all one's energy for that job, distracting yourself to an emotional game like gambling only makes the work session more difficult. People who are not professional in using their minds will use their hands and feet to work and with such volume, gambling will not interfere when we are in a working state.

The company only want its employees can work well in the company and not gambling in their free time or work time. The company want their employee show their best performance for the company so that the company can become even better. An employee who understands the regulations in his company will not use his free time to gamble because it can affect his emotions after finished gambling so that can disrupted his work and make him unable to complete his work on time. Employees like that are what companies will look for because they really understand their working hours well so they won't ignore them just to gamble. They can go back to gambling after coming home from work so they can gamble.