Is it a cause of concern if your employer frequent casinos?

[bakasabo]

First its not employee business what employer is doing. That employee dont know if his boss is gambling with his own money or not. That is why it is inappropriate to put tags on person before knowing truth. Second, if that business is working legally, "white business" then employee should not worry that boss will bankrupt business due to gambling, because nobody would allow him to take company funds for his own needs. Technically he can do that, but bookkeeper and monthly/quarterly/annual reports will prevent boss from "stealing" from company.

[Jody.Drummer]

It really calls for concern because if the owner of the company have started gambling, their is a high tendency that he may get addicted and the company will gradually start to fold or go bankrupt. A time may come when the owner may not be able to pay his employees due to lack of fund that has Ben used for gambling. If I am an employee working under an employer that recently started gambling and I see he is gradually turning to an addict, I have no choice than to quit before the company will crumble under my custody. And he may not be able to pay his workers in the future.

Yes, anyone who gambles has the opportunity to get addicted whether it can be worse or can immediately realize before going deeper, a boss who gambles this which of course can be addicted is certainly something to worry about, because I think like you that maybe I can have an impact on his business which can become bankrupt with initially maybe they can't pay their employees on time with gambling habits that can't be eliminated then this can really make his business bankrupt.

[KiaKia]

As an employee I will never dare, as far as I am getting paid every month I don't care what the owner is doing with his time or money, my duty is to work and do all I am requested to do.

I don't expect everyone to be like me, I expect some people to do something about it even if it will land them in trouble later, it's what people are known for, they like getting into others private life.

What would you do OP? Mind your business or get into others life? To whom it may concern, it's not all employers that will take this lightly, some of them will get angry and they will decide to become aggressive with you or send you out of the company.

My question is are you there to get into people's private life or you are there to make money for yourself?

[mak013]

I’m an employer myself so my answer is no.

My gambling funds is always separate from my business money account to avoid legal issues in the future for tax purposes and also against the risk of ruining everything due to gambling.

As an employer, I have my right to gamble without any approval from my employee. Not their business.

Well if that is true and correct nothing wrong with it but when some other person in the same position as you goes and recklessly gambles even business money that can affect people's salaries then it is a great reason to be concerned about and not stay that long in that company. Personally I believe gambling to such people should be disallowed in some form just as is disallowed to working persons to frequent casinos during working hours, also drinking should be disallowed during working hours so at least he is focused during business days.

I don`t see any words about business money. If gambling is allowed, if the employer has no problems with gambling why he must be restricted? In such way we can find lots of dangerous for business things, that we must prohibit for employers. Alcohol is first of it.
Yes, it can be dangerous, but we can`t restrict someone with such reason.
The good advice is try to control what kind of gambler is owner. Or, if you don`t like gamblers - quit this job.

[Bigjoe33]

This is coming from a friend, he's been with a company that is a restaurant and a catering service for 15 years, and is a regular employee. This is not really a big company, but it's been stable for the last 20 years.
But he learned that the owner became hooked in casino, and he was just starting to frequent casinos.

Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

I think gambling should be for fun, and the resultant effect of the employer always frequenting the casino my not be too good. Unless tye employer is able to manage the situation, I mean gambling and not touching the companies assets to a point that it will affect payment and the workers renumerations. If he can control this, then there is no problem with him gambling or visiting the casino.

Any negative attitude against the right gambling habits will definitely affect the company. And for the employee, if it's goes, your salary might be affected, and the only option is to resign if after much endurance and talks for a better change and working experience

[LastKiss]

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Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

Seeing an employee hooked on gambling is concerning for the employer likewise, an employer with a gambling habit is equally worrying. If an employee loses focus it could prevent the company from hitting its targets meanwhile if an employer gambles away the company profit, it prevent the company to develop and leads to financial instability. In short, yes it's concern for the company and the employee if employer addicted to gamble and lose the money there instead developing it's own company.

[xenomorfo]

Seeing an employee hooked on gambling is concerning for the employer likewise, an employer with a gambling habit is equally worrying. If an employee loses focus it could prevent the company from hitting its targets meanwhile if an employer gambles away the company profit, it prevent the company to develop and leads to financial instability. In short, yes it's concern for the company and the employee if employer addicted to gamble and lose the money there instead developing it's own company.

sure, but it depends on whether he plays in his free time, no one should be allowed to bother him
if he plays while he works, there are two problems: that he doesn't work and that he shows that he has a real addiction
everything is very serious, that is, both things

[Ishicryptic]

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Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

Seeing an employee hooked on gambling is concerning for the employer likewise, an employer with a gambling habit is equally worrying. If an employee loses focus it could prevent the company from hitting its targets meanwhile if an employer gambles away the company profit, it prevent the company to develop and leads to financial instability. In short, yes it's concern for the company and the employee if employer addicted to gamble and lose the money there instead developing it's own company.

If your employer is frequenting a casino all the time and you don't have that kind of relationship where you can talk to him the best thing is to be observant about how his gambling behavior is affecting the business. If he gambles often but not on working hours and when he's at work he is able to concentrate fully and also able to mange finance then you shouldn't be too worried about him, gambling could be what makes him happy outside work.

I think that our focus should be whether our employer or employee is gambling responsibly, if they do then we shouldn't worry although it's not advisable to be gambling everytime because if you're not very careful it will gradually distract you from your work and family

[cryptoaddictchie]

This is coming from a friend, he's been with a company that is a restaurant and a catering service for 15 years, and is a regular employee. This is not really a big company, but it's been stable for the last 20 years.
But he learned that the owner became hooked in casino, and he was just starting to frequent casinos.

Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

Well if the owner is a responsible gambler then he does nothing to worry about. Bet that the owner might be playing only his fund can afford to lose and maybe enjoying? Most rich people do that to spend their time relaxing and even enjoying themselves.

I dont like to think that his betting their company fund and might lose it. Cause a businessman always know their limit and priority when it vomes to money.

But thats my opinion only we can also might see the potential of addiction here if its so frequent already.

[348Judah]

We cannot deny anyone from gambling as long as they wish to do so at their own discretion, it is entertaining to gamble and such person only have to be mindful of his behavior while gambling, and this is where discipline comes in, one cannot be gambling irresponsibly and expecting to go well, we need to behave maturely in everything we do and apply professionalism at the same time.

[mitchr4]

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Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

Seeing an employee hooked on gambling is concerning for the employer likewise, an employer with a gambling habit is equally worrying. If an employee loses focus it could prevent the company from hitting its targets meanwhile if an employer gambles away the company profit, it prevent the company to develop and leads to financial instability. In short, yes it's concern for the company and the employee if employer addicted to gamble and lose the money there instead developing it's own company.

Small businesses like restaurants and catering are especially vulnerable because the owner usually has direct access to company funds with little to no oversight. If the gambling stays controlled, maybe nothing changes. But employees can't exactly walk up and say something about it. The best they can do is quietly prepare for the worst. A business that has survived for decades is clearly the main income source for everyone working there, so watching it collapse over an uncontrolled gambling habit would be a real shame.

[giammangiato]

I don`t see any words about business money. If gambling is allowed, if the employer has no problems with gambling why he must be restricted? In such way we can find lots of dangerous for business things, that we must prohibit for employers. Alcohol is first of it.
Yes, it can be dangerous, but we can`t restrict someone with such reason.
The good advice is try to control what kind of gambler is owner. Or, if you don`t like gamblers - quit this job.

I work in a professional firm and we came across a customer addicted to gambling, the guy in question had a company with 150 employees, excellent turnover, but vice ultimately wore down the work (it destroyed the farm) the family (it was abandoned) also accumulated a lot of debts with the Government and is now homeless (they even seized that one).
The reason? Simple after squandering his company's profits, he began not paying the employees who gradually abandoned him, only to end up not closing the contracts and it ended very badly.

[Leahized]

Personally for me, it's not my concern because they didn't hire me to give personal advice but rather to do a different job which as long as I'm doing my job, I don't have to middle Into the afires of the company owner except he or she seeks my advice. He can frequent the casino but not addicted, meaning that it's not a problem if your employers does that. It would only be a concern if they are addicted but even if they are addicted, I am not in the position of advising them except they seek for it, and if the case is worse, I will start looking for another job.

How do you say it's not a concern? Yes, I know they shouldn't be messing around but if we do that owner's job. And if he is addicted to gambling, then what steps should we take? Firstly we may have problem with Salary, thoughts about it will come. However if ever the sole proprietor So we always have to be alert and leave the job before the situation worsens. And a company owner shouldn't need to frequent the casino.

[Obim34]

Seeing an employee hooked on gambling is concerning for the employer likewise, an employer with a gambling habit is equally worrying. If an employee loses focus it could prevent the company from hitting its targets meanwhile if an employer gambles away the company profit, it prevent the company to develop and leads to financial instability. In short, yes it's concern for the company and the employee if employer addicted to gamble and lose the money there instead developing it's own company.

You are getting it twisted, an employer hires an employee. According to the topic, an employer seriously has no concern with what his/her employer does outside running the company, an employer is paid for their work, it is only a concern when it starts ruin the affairs of the company, issues like delay or skipping of salaries, and crazy attitudes towards employers, this is when it becomes a concern.

[Rockson1]

This is coming from a friend, he's been with a company that is a restaurant and a catering service for 15 years, and is a regular employee. This is not really a big company, but it's been stable for the last 20 years.
But he learned that the owner became hooked in casino, and he was just starting to frequent casinos.

Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

The company might be affected in the future since the owner of the establishment has decided to frequent the casino as you said, he might be addicted along the line and get bankrupt, we do not hope for that to happen but we must put things like this into consideration because visiting a casino on a steady bases might affect the owner of the establishment your friend works with and who knows what the end could be, but l do not think that is your friend concern, he should concentrate on the role that he been paid for, daily, weekly or monthly, he might be concerned about losing his job because if the man goes broke, the restaurant may not function again, it means all employees will their jobs automatically but all the same it is not his problem.

[nara1892]

Of course, for an employee, this is a worrying situation, especially if the business is owned by an individual. It's not uncommon for me to see business owners go bankrupt due to debts stemming from gambling addiction. For employees, the most worrying thing is not getting paid because their boss has run out of money. But this depends on how responsible the business owner is. If they are trustworthy and responsible, they should still be able to pay their workers because wages are the employee's right, no matter what.
My advice is that employees should be prepared. If, for example, salaries are late or there are other signs, they should immediately make decisions that won't be too detrimental to themselves.

For me, this is an alarming sign, because I once saw how a person got into debt because of gambling. The scariest part is that their mistake can have serious consequences for the employees as well, one day they might not receive their salary on time. I would be very concerned if wages started being delayed, and I would recommend clearly setting boundaries and, if necessary, demanding to be paid on time. A person with a gambling addiction may take advantage of access to company funds if they have the opportunity.

When a business owner experiences a gambling addiction, especially at a chronic level, it is certain that employees become one of the victims besides the family of the business owner himself, but actually for the employees they can report the case to the police because usually there is a work agreement between the employee and the boss, especially regarding the business owner who must fulfill all employee rights, so this situation can be said to still have alternatives to be overcome if it really happens.

[Sim_card]

Now he is asking me, is it a big concern if your employer starts to frequent casinos? Or he is just speculating that it will harm the company eventually.

If he's gambling responsibly, I don't think that there's any cause for alarm. However, if he gets hooked up and start gambling beyond the amount of money that he can afford to lose, it will definitely have a negative effect on his business. I have an employer three years back. I worked with her for 5 years and along the line, she became a chronic gambler. It affected the business and the business collapsed because she couldn't pay her workers anymore.

[Dunamisx]

When an employer is not careful with the way he gambles, he may end up operating his business in bankruptcy, maybe we are getting to know some of the reason to wear some establishment feel after they are being launched, incidence like this do occur whereby people mismanage their resources meant for handling the business for other purposes, that is why we must not divert our fund for business into gambling because we may regret doing so later.

[sunsilk]

As an employee I will never dare, as far as I am getting paid every month I don't care what the owner is doing with his time or money, my duty is to work and do all I am requested to do.

I don't expect everyone to be like me, I expect some people to do something about it even if it will land them in trouble later, it's what people are known for, they like getting into others private life.

What would you do OP? Mind your business or get into others life? To whom it may concern, it's not all employers that will take this lightly, some of them will get angry and they will decide to become aggressive with you or send you out of the company.

My question is are you there to get into people's private life or you are there to make money for yourself?

On this matter, you are correct. That's a personal and private life of the employer and he won't probably care about the employees as well of what they do.

What matters is as long as they're doing their duties and responsibilities to their jobs, that's all what everyone should be thinking of.

But, it's also fine to be worried when all internal affairs are being affected by one's activity in personal life when the whole team or the business and operations are showing some signs of affection.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

The work of the employee is to focus on the duty assigned to him, not to observe if the employer is a frequent casino visitor. The concern should only be raised when the employer cannot meet up in paying salary/wage. If the frequent visit to the casino affects the worker's paycheck, it is understandable that an employee can tailor the issue to the spouse of the employer if they can help him/her out.

Exactly, that's also the only situation that will make me feel concerned and probably starts looking for another job. Although there are situations where your employer is also an employee but he is working in a higher level and in a different department of the company, so, you both are still employees but he is your boss and also processes your payment. In such a situation, if the company have a policy that kicks against gambling and then you find your boss doing so, that means, I have the right to report him too to management.

In a different situation where my employer is also an employee of that company but he doesn't control my payment but rather, I receive payment from finance and accounting department, that means that it's absolutely non of my business if my employer is frequenting the casino.