Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 34. (Read 7324 times)

Basically, in any case, it is true that everything will proceed gradually,  whether it is achieving something positive or negative. It is impossible for someone to suddenly become addicted if there is no process that takes place slowly as a driving force to reach that level of addiction.

Therefore, we really have to be able to firmly apply some of the  boundaries that we have prepared, which of course is what you think is the best thing to do, none other than because addiction can come from anywhere and it is not uncommon for those who have entered the addiction phase accidentally. conscious. So basically, if you want to be safe and stay safe  then you have to keep trying to maintain your awareness, especially when your gambling session is in  progress, because by having a good enough level of awareness, I think you won't be careless in choosing something, especially you won't be easily tempted.

True, but it's also a gradual thing.

It's not like you wake up one day and you are addicted. It is a slow process that continues after multiple times the person goes gambling.

Some people are predisposed to being addicted so they should be extra careful.

Gambling is for entertainment purposes and a job is a way of making a living. When you put these 2 together, you will face problems that's for sure. Everything has a proper way of doing it. If you give priority to your work, you should never gamble or involve something that can take away your focus from it.

That's not how it works. When we become addicted to something, we try to reason to ourselves that we are not addicted to it yet and try to ignore the fact that we actually are. And by the time we realize that it's already too late. Sharing your thoughts and activities of gambling with people closer to you will always help prevent this situation. Also, people need to learn to gamble responsibly.

I don't think gambling was particularly booming in 2004 but for chess games it might have been and if there was gambling in that year I think it was mostly physical casinos. Of course  as you say it's not gambling if it doesn't involve betting valuable things that each person has like money for example in general, and judging by some of the questions you've asked here it seems like you're putting suspicion on the person about what gambling they're doing.

To be honest I also have the same assumptions and doubts as you, that's because I never heard that casinos provide games like chess as one of the gambling games, it refers more to skills, and  usually when people play chess they are more often to pit strategies and how good one of them is about the skills and understanding of the chess game. If it's a gambling game then it means that the more skilled person will win more, while chess is a game that can be learned, doesn't this make sense? So I'm quite doubtful if they lose their salary money because of this game.

Yeah! It's probably one of the worst case scenarios. The guy is not just gambling when he should be working and getting paid to work, but he also can get into the money that isn't his and  if you have control over other people's cash, gambling is a big no-no.  Anyone who manages money for others should not be doing things like betting and gambling on their own.

Did those Chess games involve betting your own money and hoping to win more? Because, if they didn't, that wasn't gambling. You were just having fun playing chess online and although that probably still wasn't allowed on your work place, it wasn't the same as being gambling. But you are saying some guys were "losing their week salary because of chess". Were they fined because of playing at the work place or was it really playing chess for money, which I've never heard of?

We should not support anyone with this attitude or give excuses for their action, irresponsibility can't be shortchanged, it's what it is. Good, if the nature of the job permits it, there is nothing, but when it becomes distracting means in their primary job dispensation, this is just irresponsible. There are some people who have a lot of spare time with their means of earning, to them, you can't blame them for whatever they do with that spare time. Inasmuch as they do not lag in delivering their jobs as they should be done, they are good to go. For these people, there is nothing stopping them from gambling as well, as to some, it might be their hobby, so let them have the fun as they while away time.

But take for example, a banker who has a lot of work in front of him but can't still control the urge to gamble at work, to such it's becoming bad and if nothing is done, it might become a problem.

Yeah, when gamblers start hiding their behavior from their friends and family that's when you might think it's time to think about it.

The further you go in that path, the more difficult it is to go back to a healthy life.

It's better to act earlier.

He’s gambling and hiding the fact from his parents cause he knows what he’s doing would not be acceptable by his parents and the society in general. And when he gets in trouble or in financial distress for such activities, he has very few people he can go to that would actually listen and want to solve his problem.

Asides all that, it’s still not nice nor responsible to gamble at work. We shouldn’t be doing one thing in the time stipulated for another thing.

This thread is very interesting, it is very noticeable what the players can do when establishing something that can make them get out of the routine, I know that in many jobs the issues are very ruinous, but when different things are done that are part of the job well It can be a lot of fun, and that is basically what we as players odems establish to do things better, I personally believe that a person who works in the field can take on the responsibility of playing without falling into any type of addiction, just as a quick hobby or something like that, sometimes people who have jobs that demand a lot from them, they can't do much in their free time, so instead of checking social networks and if they have 5 or 10 minutes free, it costs nothing to be a time on the phone to play quickly, even if it is a game like a slot where you can have a good, exciting time because it is not bad, as long as it does not affect the work being done.

When we are in a job we must assume things as they are, we can be good about the things that can be done, we cannot decide to do a job and commit ourselves to doing the job, because that in my opinion is a serious lack of it and for the person who is employing, because a job needs to fulfill the goal or the purpose under which it was employed, for that reason we must do all kinds of things to be able to do everything well without affecting what we are doing, Let us remember that the casino must be taken as a means of fun and enjoyment, we can never take it as something that we can establish for a monthly, weekly income or something like that, because we would be wrong, and we would waste money, and in every casino and anywhere we What we should do is take care of our money and avoid it in a very stupid way, because we were not doing anything right, neither the work nor the gambling that we were doing in the casino because we were waiting for them to not discover us, so for the casino we have to concentrate too.

     -   If you are still playing gambling at work, it may be a serious habit of yours because you don't think about whether it will affect your work, where what you earn here contributes a lot to your personal life.

Because if you're thinking normally, you won't let it affect your work just because you want to do the gambling that you really want to do. It should not be emulated by other gamblers who have jobs, in my opinion.

But some people don'tonly accept some of the risks that will occur because usually they initially open the application just because they want to see their account or look for certain promotions. But after they visit page after page, they see an interesting promotion and try to get it. From there, they will immediately deposit their money or immediately play gambling without remembering that they are actually still at work. He also will not realize that it is against the rules at work because he has been gambling at the office and also while he is working. It could cost him his job if his boss finds out. They should be able to think about whether it is worth doing at their workplace, which already pays their salary so they can meet their daily living needs.

What if persons gambles on the mobile? That is not company's business what I do with my phone. Here in Europe employees and employers dont pay much attention to violation of privacy. But in US for example, if it wasnt mentioned in the contract and rules, and not prohibited, all the work is done and employee was fired anyway, because he gambled on his mobile at work... I think that company gonna prepare a solid cheque or should start to login to their bank account. As this gonna cost them a lot.

It even sounds weird, if a company has a "no gambling at work" clause in contract. Of course working computer or device must be used only for work. No one questions that. But often companies close eyes when employees freely use the internet and browse anything that isnt NSFW.

Gambling is a fun place and it is best to get only entertainment from here. But those who gamble even at work means that he is very serious about gambling and he is very addicted to gambling. So it will lead to a bad experience for him as it is never possible to concentrate on gambling at work. And if someone keeps an eye on more than one aspect while gambling, then his chances of gambling increase many times. So it should never be done for a conscious person

In most companies, the computer used to do things related to the company does not allow people to use that same computer to do other things like playing games or downloading movies, music and other things. so only people who occupy high positions in the company have access to computers that allow them to go out and do more things, and in these cases they are also computers that have very strict control, thus being cases of people who have used computers from the company they work for to enter the online casino are few cases. What can happen are cases of people who, while at work, are using their phone to play games, of course they do this outside the office where they work because companies have cameras in every corner

This means that company employees are constantly observed by company security cameras, all movements of company employees are constantly monitored by the security team, this is so that employees do not steal or destroy company assets and also prevents enter a criminal in the company and leave without being identified. So by that I mean that it's not easy for people to be playing games in the company, in addition to the collaborators being very watched, they are also very busy during work and this doesn't allow people to have free time during work to play. That's why we rarely hear in the news talking about any case in which an employee at a company was fired because they were playing games at work.

Who are we to blame in this your kind of experience, you're gambling without letting your parents know and they were not that sensitive enough to have caught you red handed on the act, your own condition is not gambling at work, it's just probably a misappropriation or something that got you involved into gambling at unaware, but now you've realized the difference and things at stake.

Would really be that impossible that you wont really be able to think up about the risks when you have decided to gamble while you do work. It would be common sense that doing something
which is out of your scope of work and not on the proper time will really be putting you into some issues on which it would really be just that normal that you would really be hesitated.
Of course you would really be assessing the surrounding whether it is really just that fine or not, on the time that you have seen that it is really just that alright then this is where
you would be playing but not all would really be that have the courage though since most of us would really be thinking about those potential risks on getting caught
and get fired. We cant really that able to afford and lose our job just because we do gamble.

Most of people do gamble at work but if we see the current result of the pool, only 31% claim that they gamble at work while 57% claim that they do not gamble at work.



I think this is healthy behavior if people do not gamble at work as this way they can focus more on the work during working time and when they gamble at other times (off work timings), there would be no tension of work at that particular time.

If someone dares to do that at work, he or she will certainly be able to accept all the risks that occur, one of which is losing his job and also his good name, this will definitely be bad this is the same as someone working but not complying with company rules, while the company wants employees who obey on the rules and if you break the rules and end up gambling at work that is very bad and I have seen people do things like this who end up losing their jobs.

If this includes gambling at work, you have to be enough to not get caught by your boss as you'll be fire directly once that happened. We gamblers knows the risk, understands it, so gambling at work is also something that we are aware of the consequences once we get caught, we have to say goodbye to our job but our love with gambling will remain.

Honestly, I am guilty, so with everyone else for sure as it's not new when we are gambling at home, our computer might be monitored but we have other device which is the smart phone, we own it so we keep our privacy and we can use it while gambling at work.

But yeah, we have to be smart.