Who among you here is gambling at work?

[hedgeh0g]

Sometimes, when work has stalled and my brain has overheated, I am tempted to play online casinos on my full time job. It's like a way to get distracted and relax for a few minutes. The pros are that it adds thrills and excitement to my boring work day.
But, there are also disadvantages: I lose focus and concentration at work, and also risk being caught by my superiors. Therefore, I try not to get too carried away and use the game as a short entertainment.

You are putting yourself in trouble mate haha, because that does not really help you instead you are just using that reason of boring in work to play but the reality you wanted or missed gambling at all.
I have done this also in the past , but yeah never  that I am caught but now I stopped this because of the risk of being kicked in my work.

Gambling at work is not a new thing to many of us here because is what we do just to try our luck to see if we could earn some cash to take care of our important bills. I do this often then but not anymore because my schedule is somehow tide and I think I have outgrown gambling without any proper planing. There are people that might find joy in this and they could keep gambling for as long as they want whether at work or when they are less busy. It we just have to know which one works for us so that we don't do things that would later bring loses to us.

I tried playing at work, but it was a long time ago, but I remember the feeling well. I wanted to win a big win so that it would allow me to leave my unloved job forever, but this is just an illusion that seems to many players, but only very few will be able to achieve it.

In addition, I could be called at work at any time and would be distracted from the game; concentration decreases at work; we are not completely immersed in any of our activities. It turns out our brain is stressed because of this. Now I have completely stopped playing at work because I want to do one thing and not interfere with work and entertainment in the form of a game. After all, it may happen that work will influence our actions and we may lose important hands or press the wrong button or simply not notice our winnings. Therefore, I now prefer to play at home in a calm environment, when no one distracts me from the game. I enjoy it a lot more, and I even think the chance of winning and not making a mistake is a little higher due to our concentration on the game itself.

[AnonBitCoiner]

Sometimes, when work has stalled and my brain has overheated, I am tempted to play online casinos on my full time job. It's like a way to get distracted and relax for a few minutes. The pros are that it adds thrills and excitement to my boring work day.
But, there are also disadvantages: I lose focus and concentration at work, and also risk being caught by my superiors. Therefore, I try not to get too carried away and use the game as a short entertainment.

I think a person should fulfil his responsibility instead of getting rid of your job because if you are getting paid for some work then it is your responsibility to complete your work with great care. A responsible man never gamble at a time of job and once you start gambling as an entertainment then you will steadily move towards it and will not make good use of your work.

If you want to joy through gambling then take out some time for it but don't play casinos during your job because it will reduce your concentration from your work and according to my experience many people leave their jobs just for gambling but at the end they does not find anything instead of lossing their Job as well as money.

[bettercrypto]

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.

For sure, no matter what your experience was before, you have learned a lesson from that matter, right? And that's the important thing, from what I see. There is nothing stopping us from gambling, and we as gamblers are always in control of what we do about that too.

So if a gambler is currently employed and he knows in himself that he can't stop himself from gambling once a week, I think he can still control himself to gamble correctly. But if he plays gambling online every day, I don't think it's really a good habit because it will affect his work for sure, like Op said.

[Dewi Aries]

Gambling at work is not a new thing to many of us here because is what we do just to try our luck to see if we could earn some cash to take care of our important bills. I do this often then but not anymore because my schedule is somehow tide and I think I have outgrown gambling without any proper planing. There are people that might find joy in this and they could keep gambling for as long as they want whether at work or when they are less busy. It we just have to know which one works for us so that we don't do things that would later bring loses to us.

Workplace gambling is undoubtedly a bad habit. Workplace is an important place for everyone be it a job or own business if someone gambles there then his work will be disrupted.  Because when someone loses gambling at that moment, a depression of losing money will appear in him and he will be upset and lose focus on work. So no one should do it.  Because that work is a source of his income and through that he meets his financial expenses. so gambling cannot be impotent from one's workplace

Of course gambling at work is a careless or even stupid decision, they do not know or are unable to distinguish about which one is more important and which should be prioritized, as you say here that work is an important activity for a person because it is by working that we are able to make money to survive, and this is why it is a very silly decision for anyone to gamble at work. This is because the risks are greater, and this can lead to many other problems and not just a matter of losing, because obviously there is no way you can focus on work if you are doing two activities at the same time.

The first thing that will definitely happen is that you will lose focus at work which makes the results of the performance or the results of the work you do poor, and this could be something that will be questioned by the boss, and the second is the concern when your boss accidentally finds out about the gambling you are doing in the middle of working hours which could ultimately cost you your job because most likely your boss will make the decision to fire you unilaterally due to seeing his employees who do not comply with the rules and instead carry out gambling activities in the middle of working hours which basically gambling has a very negative point of view in the eyes of the general public.

On the other hand, I think there is still quite a lot of time that you can allocate for gambling, you can gamble when you have finished working or that means when you have returned home and you can gamble casually without any worries about being found out by your boss, or you can also gamble when you are on holidays such as weekends, so my advice is to try to be wiser in dividing your time.

[ethereumhunter]

Yeah right, the chance of keeping your focus into gambling either you are winning or losing will lead you not to pay attention to your work, it might ruin your bread and butter in terms of financial needs. Better not to deal with it if you can hold and wait till your shift ends up and you have all the free time to gamble.

Well, that can makes your works can't finish in the right time and clearly, your focus on your work will disturb. When you lose, your minds will back to thinks about your loss and will not realizes that your gambling time is over and you now must continue your work until it finish. But because of you gets lose in gambling, your minds can't thinks clearly and not accepting the lose so that can interrupt your emotion and your work. It's why that if you want to playing gambling, you better doing that in your home and not in your work because you risks your work and that can makes you gets fired when your superiors knows.

[angrybirdy]

Yeah right, the chance of keeping your focus into gambling either you are winning or losing will lead you not to pay attention to your work, it might ruin your bread and butter in terms of financial needs. Better not to deal with it if you can hold and wait till your shift ends up and you have all the free time to gamble.

Well, that can makes your works can't finish in the right time and clearly, your focus on your work will disturb. When you lose, your minds will back to thinks about your loss and will not realizes that your gambling time is over and you now must continue your work until it finish. But because of you gets lose in gambling, your minds can't thinks clearly and not accepting the lose so that can interrupt your emotion and your work. It's why that if you want to playing gambling, you better doing that in your home and not in your work because you risks your work and that can makes you gets fired when your superiors knows.

but the thing here is, what if you are set up to work from home? You need a lot of self control because you can gamble anytime with just your phone, right? Since your work is at home, it will be difficult for you to control yourself because you may not be able to work properly and lose your focus due to the temptation of gambling. Whether we admit it or not, it has come to the point that we do it especially when we have spare time at work like break time. It's really hard to get through, but it's up to you how you can help yourself in managing your time, especially when it comes to work-life balance.

[Slow death]

Not long ago I was reading an article that talked about how our society was in decline in terms of moral and ethical values and how respect is disappearing. nowadays people do not have due respect in the job they are in, they seem to not value the place they work in, they are constantly on their cell phone, even if it is a person who has no history of involvement with gambling, They still stay at work with their phone in their hand chatting on WhatsApp or Instagram while they are working and as a consequence, if it is in a hospital for example, they leave people who need care with a certain urgency in a queue where there are many other people because the Service is very slow, what I'm saying is nothing new. I don't know if this has only happened in my country

but here in my country there are many cases of people who went to the hospital and spent hours waiting to be seen by the doctor, and the doctor was taking a long time because he was chatting on social media, there are cases where the employee was playing games instead of taking care of the patients. in other companies in cases similar to these. People no longer have limits on where they can use their phones and where they can't use their phones. It's not a good thing for a person at work to be playing games on the phone instead of working, it's not a good thing for a person to ignore dozens of people who are in the hospital waiting for treatment and the employee is playing games or chatting on social media.

I have seen in banks in my country, when I arrive there are many people to be served and hours pass and no one is being attended to, but when I look at the bank employee, she is not assisting anyone, but is on the phone talking and then He leaves the bank and takes a long time to get back, and as a consequence we have to spend many hours at the bank. It's a situation that I've reported to my country's central bank several times, but they never resolve it, phones have become much more important than working well. I know people who show off that they play at online casinos when they are at work.

[ethereumhunter]

but the thing here is, what if you are set up to work from home? You need a lot of self control because you can gamble anytime with just your phone, right? Since your work is at home, it will be difficult for you to control yourself because you may not be able to work properly and lose your focus due to the temptation of gambling. Whether we admit it or not, it has come to the point that we do it especially when we have spare time at work like break time. It's really hard to get through, but it's up to you how you can help yourself in managing your time, especially when it comes to work-life balance.

When that is happens, you must have a good self-control and have many activities to distract your minds not to thinks about gambling because your work in home can gives you much free time that you can used for other things. If you can stick to your rules, you don't have to worry with your free time when you are in home and you will not used your time to playing gambling because you will considering that playing gambling is just for having fun. You have the other important things you must do and that's all about of your work. Your free time will be used for the other things besides of playing gambling and when you wants to playing gambling, you will playing gambling moderately because you don't wants to becomes not responsible gambler.

[LUCKMCFLY]

but the thing here is, what if you are set up to work from home? You need a lot of self control because you can gamble anytime with just your phone, right? Since your work is at home, it will be difficult for you to control yourself because you may not be able to work properly and lose your focus due to the temptation of gambling. Whether we admit it or not, it has come to the point that we do it especially when we have spare time at work like break time. It's really hard to get through, but it's up to you how you can help yourself in managing your time, especially when it comes to work-life balance.

When that is happens, you must have a good self-control and have many activities to distract your minds not to thinks about gambling because your work in home can gives you much free time that you can used for other things. If you can stick to your rules, you don't have to worry with your free time when you are in home and you will not used your time to playing gambling because you will considering that playing gambling is just for having fun. You have the other important things you must do and that's all about of your work. Your free time will be used for the other things besides of playing gambling and when you wants to playing gambling, you will playing gambling moderately because you don't wants to becomes not responsible gambler.

That is the type of thoughts of a responsible person, who knows that they can have fun but considers that it is not Correct for them to do it at their workplace, because work is something legal, it is something that we always see as ideal behavior. , but what is that ? When a Person enters a casino they can have everything very clear, the worst thing is that they start to believe that they can win, of course it is not something certain , but I have Really learned through my little experience and over time I have been playing in casinos that as a player you must be or have established how much money you can win, you know that you cannot spend everything you have , you have to play only with the money you are allowed to lose, this to Avoid spending the money you have for the games daily purchases, or for medicines, services, among other things.

Not everyone thinks this way, because when they sit down in a casino to play, they feel that they can beat the same casino and that is a superiority complex that does not lead to the right path.

[EarnOnVictor]

Sometimes, when work has stalled and my brain has overheated, I am tempted to play online casinos on my full time job. It's like a way to get distracted and relax for a few minutes. The pros are that it adds thrills and excitement to my boring work day.
But, there are also disadvantages: I lose focus and concentration at work, and also risk being caught by my superiors. Therefore, I try not to get too carried away and use the game as a short entertainment.

I've said it many times, it's mostly about the nature of the work because, in some work settings, you will not even dare to check your phone talkless of gambling with it, while some would have taken custody of the phone immediately you are at work or force you to drop it in a locker specially assigned to you. Your nature of work is still less pressing, unlike many others, if not, you might not be able to access the phone even if they do not collect it from you as they do in some places for many reasons.

Regardless, your approach might still be good because you never mentioned that you practically gamble at work because you are addicted to it but to relieve stress. If that is your hobby and what you can do at that time to save the day, why not? Not that I am encouraging a bad habit but it is a way for you to be more productive. Imagine being fully stressed and you can reach out to your phone for a couple of minutes to freshen yourself a bit and return back to work ASAP. I am certain that you are returning to work with better efficiency than though you were just working and working under stress with no stopping. There is no way you can work with the high performance needed of you that way.

Just don't get caught because it will not be a good ending for you and no amount of explanation and persuasion can make your employer or senior colleagues agree with you on that reason.

[zuzie]

Just don't get caught because it will not be a good ending for you and no amount of explanation and persuasion can make your employer or senior colleagues agree with you on that reason.

Agree, if we gamble at work then we also have to maintain a careful attitude because we are surrounded by many people and they can definitely accept or strongly reject gambling. Indeed, nowadays we see a lot of workers at their workplaces also carrying out gambling activities such as playing slots with their friends during break times and in my opinion the gambling that is often played by workers at work is slot games just by using their gadget and data package. . It's easy to gamble with friends around you.
And in my opinion, slot gambling will not disturb workers while they are working, they only play during break times.

[Orpichukwu]

Sometimes declining some betting activities is not necessary, I believe all dependent on the situation why you are betting. In this case, if you are currently employed, you can decide to go to a casino shop whenever it is right like I said, it’s always good to set a particular amount of betting from your salary so you won’t go above what you have projected, definitely is going to be a problem if you don’t have a budget on your betting activities you end up of using the money for your family, upkeep and groceries to put it away and come back home to face problem with your wife.

The thing is, some people have a budget, but they don't have control over their gambling activities. Most of them are working and earning a good amount of money from their work place, but still, they don't give that work their full attention as they divert most of their attention over to gambling. 
 
With the high rate of online gambling and its exposure, it's very easy for them to not even go into the game house, but they can just use any device that has access to the internet to login to their casino dashboard and begin to place bets on why they are in their work place, which will deviate their attention from focusing in their work place to other places, which is the negative part of online gambling for those who don't have control over their involvement in it.

[Quidat]

Yeah right, the chance of keeping your focus into gambling either you are winning or losing will lead you not to pay attention to your work, it might ruin your bread and butter in terms of financial needs. Better not to deal with it if you can hold and wait till your shift ends up and you have all the free time to gamble.

Well, that can makes your works can't finish in the right time and clearly, your focus on your work will disturb. When you lose, your minds will back to thinks about your loss and will not realizes that your gambling time is over and you now must continue your work until it finish. But because of you gets lose in gambling, your minds can't thinks clearly and not accepting the lose so that can interrupt your emotion and your work. It's why that if you want to playing gambling, you better doing that in your home and not in your work because you risks your work and that can makes you gets fired when your superiors knows.

On the time that you cant be that efficient already into your work then it does really shows that gambling did really affect you out then it would really be that best that you should really quit up gambling for good. You would really be having a choice whether you would really be putting up some focus on doing gambling and lost your work or you would be having that moderation so that
you wont potentially be able to compromise your source of income? It wouldnt be so hard on making up a choice but if you are that too dumb on to choose up gambling over work
then you are out of your mind. Never ever consider out on taking up such action because you would really be definitely be regretting in the end of line.

[Docnaster]

Just don't get caught because it will not be a good ending for you and no amount of explanation and persuasion can make your employer or senior colleagues agree with you on that reason.

It's absolutely wrong for someone that's employed to do a particular job by a particular firm to be gambling during working time and if for any reason he's relieved of his duties after the employer finds out of his gambling engagements during working hours, I think the best to do in other to save sack him for his unprofessionalism. To everything there's a time and for an employee to engage in gambling activities during working hours, it simply means he's not actually serious with work ahd such person i think deserves to be sacked without waiting for any sort lf explanation to justify his action

[promise444c5]

The topic subject  is funny itself!
It feels  like "Hey you why TF are you gambling  at work"

I will be replying to the subject, Gambling  should not interfered with our personal lives , anyone Gambling  at work is probably doing it for two reasons
One: he's having a break which bores him  alot,
Two: he's probably  addicted negatively to gamble at work
If Gambling  is beign done while working then such person is addicted and need help to quitting  it because  getting  addicted negatively  could ruin someone  entirely

[zuzie]

Just don't get caught because it will not be a good ending for you and no amount of explanation and persuasion can make your employer or senior colleagues agree with you on that reason.

It's absolutely wrong for someone that's employed to do a particular job by a particular firm to be gambling during working time and if for any reason he's relieved of his duties after the employer finds out of his gambling engagements during working hours, I think the best to do in other to save sack him for his unprofessionalism. To everything there's a time and for an employee to engage in gambling activities during working hours, it simply means he's not actually serious with work ahd such person i think deserves to be sacked without waiting for any sort lf explanation to justify his action

A mistake that can have fatal consequences is if a worker gambles during working hours and if his employer or superior finds out about this, he will receive a warning or be immediately expelled. It really doesn't make sense if workers are working during their working hours and also carry out their gambling activities and it would be nice if people could do that. I myself don't know if he is really good at doing that because of the addiction factor he can do it.
And if he is addicted to gambling then I wouldn't be surprised if he can do it because addicts can't just stop because all they have in mind is playing and playing.

[nullama]

The topic subject  is funny itself!
It feels  like "Hey you why TF are you gambling  at work"

I will be replying to the subject, Gambling  should not interfered with our personal lives , anyone Gambling  at work is probably doing it for two reasons
One: he's having a break which bores him  alot,
Two: he's probably  addicted negatively to gamble at work
If Gambling  is beign done while working then such person is addicted and need help to quitting  it because  getting  addicted negatively  could ruin someone  entirely

Yeah, but gambling can be a slippery slope, and someone that just gambles a bit because they are bored can end up in a situation in which they can't control their gambling anymore.

And then they start putting more and more money in there and there will be a point in which they will not have access to more funds, and they probably will lose their job at that time as well as their minds will be in another place.

[borovichok]

Just don't get caught because it will not be a good ending for you and no amount of explanation and persuasion can make your employer or senior colleagues agree with you on that reason.

It's absolutely wrong for someone that's employed to do a particular job by a particular firm to be gambling during working time and if for any reason he's relieved of his duties after the employer finds out of his gambling engagements during working hours, I think the best to do in other to save sack him for his unprofessionalism. To everything there's a time and for an employee to engage in gambling activities during working hours, it simply means he's not actually serious with work ahd such person i think deserves to be sacked without waiting for any sort lf explanation to justify his action

It is wrong as you have noted. When you work and gamble, you must lose focus on the job. Gambling can affect emotion whether a gambler is winning or not. When you are winning, you become excited and want to continue gambling and when you are losing you become sad and then you pick offense over everything. Even an order from your superior can trigger anger and even disobedience because your mood has been distorted. This can affect the activeness and productivity of such workers. There is also every tendency that a gambler who gambles during work might find it challenging to get to work early since sometimes he will use money meant for transportation to place a bet and then scrabble to get a replacement which is not always easy.

I have a friend who was a chronic gambler and most times he would gamble with all his funds and then be absent from work. I agree that such a worker should be sacked. Every employer wants to grow his business and make a profit and so if his employee is not helping him achieve this goal, the employer will sack such employee to pave the way for an individual capable of bringing profit to the organization.

[Odusko]

Yeah right, the chance of keeping your focus into gambling either you are winning or losing will lead you not to pay attention to your work, it might ruin your bread and butter in terms of financial needs. Better not to deal with it if you can hold and wait till your shift ends up and you have all the free time to gamble.

Well, that can makes your works can't finish in the right time and clearly, your focus on your work will disturb. When you lose, your minds will back to thinks about your loss and will not realizes that your gambling time is over and you now must continue your work until it finish. But because of you gets lose in gambling, your minds can't thinks clearly and not accepting the lose so that can interrupt your emotion and your work. It's why that if you want to playing gambling, you better doing that in your home and not in your work because you risks your work and that can makes you gets fired when your superiors knows.

On the time that you cant be that efficient already into your work then it does really shows that gambling did really affect you out then it would really be that best that you should really quit up gambling for good. You would really be having a choice whether you would really be putting up some focus on doing gambling and lost your work or you would be having that moderation so that
you wont potentially be able to compromise your source of income? It wouldnt be so hard on making up a choice but if you are that too dumb on to choose up gambling over work
then you are out of your mind. Never ever consider out on taking up such action because you would really be definitely be regretting in the end of line.

Generally speaking gambling at work is a very bad and unacceptable practice since gambling naturally eat up one time and energy with loads of distractions, so majority's of CEOs will always have gambling on the blacklist among activities that are accepted within the workplace.
It's hard before you see any company that allows their staffs to gamble at work and if they are caught gambling secretly, it can lead to sack of that employee or suspension, because at that point their are already going out of context of the job and there is no relationship between working and gambling.

[Rampagoe004]

And if he is addicted to gambling then I wouldn't be surprised if he can do it because addicts can't just stop because all they have in mind is playing and playing.

Gambling addiction will reduce productivity at work. I'm sure this will make your boss suspicious and one day they will find you gambling while working. And because you can't work optimally then of course your boss will fire you. I'm not sure your boss will give you a warning. Gambling addiction is a fatal mistake. I think no one wants their employees to be gambling addicts. Gambling addicts can cause bad things for companies such as fraud or embezzlement of company money. Therefore, don't be a gambler in your work environment.