Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 20. (Read 7320 times)

Not everyone mate, if you put it that way, it should only be for people who are working for companies or establishments. For those who owns their own businesses, they can choose to gamble at their own time. When you are employed you are usually given task to do and most times you have 1 or 2 hours break which you have for lunch and other things but how can you gamble during this time.  It's still a good thing, to be able to minimize your gambling activities, during hours of work even though you own the business or are employed.

As you are being paid in full but you are using some of the time to enjoy playing your hobby, and for sure your boss or the owner of that particular business will not be happy, omiting time while enjoying your gambling will place you in a big risk, surely there's sanctions that you will be facing if your superior will find out that you are doing it during your office working hour.

Better to seperate your gaming time and your work time, as like you said, it's not wrong if you are really enjoying just not let that enjoyment eat up all of your time including your working hours.

In this case, I have nothing against the fact that you play when all the work is completed. Ultimately, people are not robots and they also want to relax a little during working hours. It will even affect our mood a little. The main thing is that it is not bad after we see that we have lost a big bet online and not to shout or be rude to the client to whom we provide services. I wouldn’t even want to bet big at work, because I want to be more focused on this process, and even if I lose, I’ll tell myself that it wasn’t because I was at work and wasn’t concentrated.

It would be better if you really want to gamble at work, it's best to do it in your free time after all your office work has been completed, or in between work breaks. And don't let your boss find out about your gambling activities in your work area, because they definitely won't like that.
I myself am one of those people who gamble even though I'm working. However, as I explained above, I make sure all my work is finished first. Moreover, the gambling that I take is light gambling, such as lotteries and slots, which don't require a long time or too much concentration.

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

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

Sometimes this risk can be justified if we don't like the job and are ready to lose it. But here it is important to comply with one condition, we must be sure that at the next job we will have better conditions, but no one can give us such guarantees. This is the danger. As a result, we will not like our new job so much that we will be ready to return to the old one, but the boss will not hire us again, because he will know that we behave irresponsibly at work and do not fulfill our duties in full.

Also, when we play at work, we only think about ourselves, but do not think about others, those people who would like to receive our services at a good level. I think it would be unpleasant for many if we were treated the same way.

There is a time and place for everything, gambling by itself is not really something wrong to do, as it is just like any other hobby that you may enjoy.

However doing so at your place of work is a bad idea, bosses do not like that their employees are taking some of their working time off to enjoy a hobby, and we can see this on the push to try to get people back to the office, as even if the work still got done at the end, people did so while enjoying their time at their house, and companies hated this even if it was overall more efficient for everyone involved.

As you are being paid in full but you are using some of the time to enjoy playing your hobby, and for sure your boss or the owner of that particular business will not be happy, omiting time while enjoying your gambling will place you in a big risk, surely there's sanctions that you will be facing if your superior will find out that you are doing it during your office working hour.

Better to seperate your gaming time and your work time, as like you said, it's not wrong if you are really enjoying just not let that enjoyment eat up all of your time including your working hours.

There is a time and place for everything, gambling by itself is not really something wrong to do, as it is just like any other hobby that you may enjoy.

However doing so at your place of work is a bad idea, bosses do not like that their employees are taking some of their working time off to enjoy a hobby, and we can see this on the push to try to get people back to the office, as even if the work still got done at the end, people did so while enjoying their time at their house, and companies hated this even if it was overall more efficient for everyone involved.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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