Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 20. (Read 7586 times)

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.

Gambling is not completely bad if we can do it well and responsibly, including the time and place for gambling, because it is impossible to gamble in places where you shouldn't. If there are many people who gamble well, maybe there won't be many people who have a negative view of gambling. because there are so many negative views on gambling because people gamble excessively which results in big losses. and also with countries that allow and do not allow gambling being one of them.

What you say is correct, I agree with that, although some say it depends on the job you have, but in my opinion it is not good to gamble at work, in the work environment or working hours. If you are in the environment, hours and place of work then you should just focus on work, because that is the main income which is clear, don't let us get into trouble because of careless actions taken. Even if I were a boss who had employees and they were stealing time to do their hobbies, especially gambling, of course I wouldn't like it and would reprimand this action, because I think it could affect their performance, and I myself don't want my company to suffer from this. problems due to careless actions of employees. Besides, it's hard to wait until you get home from work, because even if you're at home, it's impossible not to have free time.

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.

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.

Yes, I admit that when temptation comes and tries to control us, we will falter and find it difficult to control ourselves well. We might immediately follow the temptation and deposit more money so we can continue gambling. This is where it is important to practice self-control so that we can position ourselves when we are at work so that we will not be tempted by anything related to gambling. It is important to avoid gambling at work so that we are not tempted and can still focus on doing or completing our work. However, we must prioritize work when we are at work and everything else must wait until we have finished work and are at home.

By having good self-control, we can resist the temptation to control us at work. We can avoid it and keep doing our work until we go home and once we are home, we can gamble casually without having to do anything.

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.

In some countries betting is so commonplace that you might end up having better coworker relationships if you bet together!

But yeah, in general it is not a really great thing to do.

Specially if you are betting large amounts of money.

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.

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

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.

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.

In the immortal words of Tony Soprano, you dont S*** where you eat for good reasons.   Dont try to mix oil with water, it doesnt especially work and on general principle gambling while at work should be underlined with heavy caution.   I know some people will do it anyway but since you gamble the money you earn, to compromise one with the other is potentially dangerous and you wont have any money to gamble if the job should be lost by gambling and heavily distracted during work.
   Some people could balance this perhaps but its best to presume you wont or it would develop into a negative not worth it.  Add in the other side which is just general balance of not gambling all the time, take time out to work, rest not gamble too much is massively arguable and good advice imo

Yes, gambling and work should not be combined because they are two different things. Work can provide us with income that we can use to meet our daily needs. Meanwhile, gambling is an activity that can provide pleasure, sadness, entertainment, and so on. And we are not allowed to gamble at work because it violates workplace regulations. We must know that the workplace is for work while we can gamble wherever we want when we are not doing anything or have free time. But that doesn't mean that if we take a break at work, we can gamble because this will depend on the situation and conditions at the workplace.

Yes, we have to conclude whether our actions are right or wrong. Let's just ask our little hearts how we would feel if, for example, we were a boss and saw that our employees were gambling at work. We don't want our workplace to tolerate this attitude because other employees will do other things at work where there are already regulations that we cannot do outside of work. After all, it can interfere with our performance. We cannot be indifferent to this because we have been accepted to work at our workplace, and we should be able to respect it by working as well as possible. We can't waste it because finding work is very difficult nowadays and we must face tough competition. If accepted for work, we still must compete with other employees to show our achievements.

Well, it's not gambling then, is it? If you are not betting your money you can easily forget about it right away and keep doing your main job. It will hardly be the case if a serious amount of money is at stake. Then you will be thinking of it even when you are not on a gambling site and it can be distractive. If you don't recommend playing for money, in short, you don't recommend gambling at work, I would say.

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.

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.

If you are the boss, part of the higher ups or an external contractor then you can get away with things other employees may not be able to do, however someone that does not have that kind of independence and that needs their job, should do well to err on the side of caution and avoid gambling while they are at their job.

Since you never know when the company for which you work may cut some personal, and they could let you go because the higher-ups do not feel that you are giving it your all since you gamble at work.

Yes it's true that if you don't gamble at work it won't affect your performance. If there is more attention to gambling it will be leisure time. It is interesting to note that most gamblers do not do it to win. Only a small number of players benefit. If someone is determined to achieve gambling goals they should avoid the game gambling should be a form of entertainment except at work and losing money should be considered an entertainment expense.

They can gamble at work as long as they can be responsible for what they do. But we must remember that gambling provides a temptation for them so that they can gamble excessively so that they cannot be responsible with themselves and their work. Maybe some people have been punished because they were caught gambling at work and maybe some have been fired. Instead of taking the risk of losing our jobs, it is better for us not to gamble at work because there are people who like and dislike us, are always looking for faults, and intend to bring us down in front of our superiors. This has happened frequently in many workplaces, so we must know where we are. And it is also for our good not to gamble at work.

Imo it is also wrong for people to rush doing their duties just to have free time. If employer sees that, he might give extra work easily, thinking you are doing little for the money you are paid.

I agree that a tiny win at work makes daily work more enjoyable. But what if it a tiny loss, or not tiny at all? Its very wrong if negative attitude from a loss will be moved to working process, colleagues, final result. Basically this is risking job in exchange for a tiny win. Is it really worth it?

In general I find it unacceptable if I share with colleagues during coffee, that I have gambled recently at work, instead of discussing life trifles or chat. Definitely I wont find support in their eyes.