Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 53. (Read 7644 times)

These will usually depend on the individual's own will to gamble at work outside and in the office, where you have to do everything yourself and be under the control of the boss if there is an obsession with gambling it will have a negative effect on work. Both will cause harm at work when gambling becomes addictive gambling at work can get out of control. Along with the negative social consequences associated with business serious social and financial problems arise. That is why it is better to take your office work seriously without putting yourself in harm's way at work.

It's all about self-control and how you have been carrying out your gambling activities throughout your gambling journey. If you are a responsible gambler and you don't spend a lot of money on gambling, you won't face such situations because you won't always be thinking about gambling, but if you are an addicted gambler who spends a lot of time and money gambling, this will definitely affect your work life as well because you won't be able to take gambling out of your mind and then you may as well start gambling when you are at work.

If we talk about personal experiences, I've never gambled when working in an office or outside, but it has been some time since I'm working from home and sometimes when I feel tired from work or want to have a small break, that's when I may gamble a little bit on a mobile gambling app just to enjoy my break.

And that yields to addiction especially if you are having problems to function properly, perhaps in one’s work, ‘coz he’s distracted and won’t be comfortable doing his job until that drive has been satisfied temporarily. Gambling at work is fine and I agree that it is, especially if you won’t compromise the things that you should be doing for that instance. If things won’t be handled with extra care, then things might get worse. It is a two-way perspective; playing during your duty would hurt his company.You won’t also be able things with convenience especially at work if your ‘hidden act’ has not been served. Gambling is an easy industry to engage yourself with but is something you won’t easily be able to quit.

Nothing wrong if you gamble at work but make sure that it doesn't affect your work and you're off duty when you do that. As long as it's your money and you don't touch your company's money or anyone from your colleagues. But if you're going to that point that you're also using your company's time and resources to your gambling then you will pay the price of it. Your work ethic will also be affected and brought to the point that you will never like and you'll regret it in the end. Well, I'm not trying to be clean but I have never done this although with other websites and activities, I've done it except gambling. Since before, there's not that much gambling sites that I know when I was in the office and good thing that I have not known any of them during those times because despite my office not being strict, they're always asking things related to our daily tasks and what we've done on our office hours.

I have never gambled or even considered to do it while at work, or while doing other things which require me to be focused. Though, I must say I have tried to multitask before while working (trying to watch a video or play some mobile idle game) and it was quite taxing to my performance, so I do not doubt any word you say when you tell us you got problems from gambling at your workplace.

Once I was told by a wise professor of mine, that problems in our life start to worsen when we do things intended to be done in our homes while we work and also when we do work at home.
Anyways, I am glad you somehow realized you were commiting a serious mistake and are now aware of it.
Hope things continue to improve.   

I have never compromised my money to gambling that is, allocating huge amount of my salary to gamble because I have a very big insight on what it cause to me and moreover it is not something we have to put trust as an ends meet where we are  typically relying to make a larger profits. Although a larger portion can come into whenever we have a sure winning and also lose greatly whenever we allocates a higher amount to gamble but that is not what we can be sure at because it doesn't deal with accuracy or professional we are in our prediction rather being challenged as a luck based game with little or zero chance of winning.

I have a part-time job that I am into, sometimes I will be at work and I will be free, I do gamble whenever I have nothing to do, and I haven’t noticed any negative impact on me. Whenever I am busy, I do forget about my mobile phone completely, but there are some times when I am less busy and I just decide to gamble just to make myself busy.
 
The only people that gambling at work might disturb are those who keep on gambling even when they are busy at work. They still look for ways to gamble; they are really attached to gambling. I am sure people like that will be affected at work because gambling is going to affect their work performance.

This did not particularly happen to me but to someone who is very close. He is a gambler an addict at that and was somehow employed in the finance department of his company. Gamblers and finance or money do not mix and because he did not disclose his gambling problem to his employers no one knew how much he suffered from this addiction. This person would alter financial accounts to embezzle money just to fulfill his gambling urge. He continued stealing from the organisation coffers until an audit was made and it was noticed that monies were missing and he was the main suspect. He was later arrested and  through family intervention he was released and fired from his workplace. His family made effort to get him to be rehabilitated and I think he's making good progress right now.

I find it hard to see how you are gambling while at work, unless you work online and you are also gambling online to which you are using your phone or your office computer. Your boss will even kick you out of playing solitaire in your office all the more when you are playing on casinos.

You really mixed it all up when you are doing these together. It should be funny to see yourself playing poker while your boss suddenly arrives and checks your monitor. Seem like a scene from a comedy movie.

Im sorry to hear that but I do think that you should manage how you gamble as it's affecting you as an individual. I'm not particularly rich, I'm actually on a below mid income on my country which compared to other country is too low, but I always manage or handle my gambling session better than this.
I also do online gambling when at work like doing dice and slots when there's free time and sportbet when there's a major sport or gambling opportunity arise and it tends to be more fun as some of my colleagues are also interested to bet on it. Whether we lose or win, it actually is fun as long as you don't bet or gamble what you can afford to lose.  Also, having someone to share your loses or wins are much more fun than doing alone.
Still, nobody should be gambling while at work, not only is it mostly not allowed by most company or HR which might jeopardize your job, it may also take away your focus from your work.

Addiction on anything usually is very bad and gambling addiction comes after you fail to gamble responsibly. The casino can focus on details, build up good security, write good warnings but if a gamble does not digest those advice, it is hard for any site prevent their users gamble carefully and elegantly.

This is what happens when one is addicted to gambling, you will want to gamble all the time because you are being controlled by your emotion to chase your losses, irrespective of where you are, either at work or wherever. This is a serious case because your attention will be diverted from carrying out your job effectively.

I have not experience such but I have a colleague who is a core gambler and when he comes to work, you will see him not settled and every time he comes to work, he is always complaining of one problem or the other to enable him get funds from people at our work place so that he can sneak to gamble with the money. The worst thing is that he keeps on borrowing money from almost everybody in the office and before you know it, he has accumulated debts that is more than his salary.

During payday, he ends up going home with nothing because everybody that borrowed him money will line up to get their funds back from him. I do pity for him, sometimes the moment payment is done he collects part of his salary in advance just to meet up with his gambling activities. His gambling activities started frustrating him to the extend that he can no longer pay people that he borrows money for,this made our Boss to take him for counseling.

There was a time that office funds kept in his custody was used to gamble and this almost led to his sack. I am happy that he has overcome his addiction now and he gambles responsible.

This is a very well-written statement of yours, OP.

Though I do not have any kind of experience that reached similarly to yours, I have personally witnessed someone close to our family whose life slowly crippled away due to his gambling and drug addiction. When I was a kid, my uncle used to have a stable career and healthy relationships with everyone. But when his co-workers introduced him to gambling and drugs, our family saw the difference- like it was literally night and day.

Unfortunately, my uncle still lives in his dark era where he continues to battle gambling addiction. We still hope that he recovers but this is just a testament on how gambling and drug addiction can turn your life around.

I have actually not done that before because I know the repercussion to it. On a normal it is against work ethics and in most occasion might have side effects on ones work abilities. These are amongst the reasons why some organisations put on their caution that no worker should be seen operating phone while at work but sometimes some workers sneak out to do that.

The side effect of gambling while at work is demoralising. The thought of losing a game puts you off balance and weakens your morals to work not to talk of when you are indebted and have a family to cater for. These are the reasons why it is advised to gamble responsibly and with what you can afford to lose without it bothering you.

Gambling at work, maybe or not, it depends on where we work, because every human being in the world has a variety of jobs, maybe for those who work in the office sector who can't be separated from the computer at their desk every day, maybe they like to gamble, it could be when work hours are over or during breaks.

But unlike us, there is no time and opportunity to gamble while working, because we are always in the field, there is no opportunity to place bets, we gamble when working hours end, usually gambling at night, there is no time during the day.

But in my opinion, gambling at work is not a good idea, apart from being able to damage one's own image and it can also damage the place where we work, for example, government or private offices, what we do can have bad consequences, for me it is not a good thing to do, the negative risks are greater than the positive.

Personally, I also sometimes like to gamble at work during my breaks. Like playing slots or soccer gambling. But despite this, I have some money that I risk in gambling and use cold hard cash. So I never use money that has been earmarked for my or my family's needs as gambling capital. Because whatever happens, even though we gamble there must be limits and we must not harm ourselves in the context of large losses. If the loss is small, that's normal. Because in gambling there are bound to be wins and losses. So basically the key to my gambling comfort is financial management. Because I have my own rules and limits when playing gambling. If explained in detail, I have special money intended for gambling. So, for example, if I lose and my gambling money has run out, I have to be patient until payday arrives. So for me personally, gambling at work, at home, or at a hangout, I think it's all the same. But even so, it would be better if gamble when get home from work and rest at home. Because what is certain is that mind and mentality will definitely be calmer.

I am working and I am involved in gambling sometimes and yes it will affect  my work cause the reason of I sleep lately because of gambling and I spend my money spontaneously which is there's no point  or target to my money. And also my salary  I'll spend some of it to my wants which is gambling. Anyways during my  day off I'll gamble to avoid boredom and lonely. And then I'll realize that it's not good to spend my salary in gambling.

This question would be answered with relation to the nature of job each individual do. For some persons their jobs provide them with enough time to do other things, while some do have ample break period where they can do things that are their lesuire  so I think these are the times with which for gamblers they could quickly scroll through their smart device and place a bet.

For those who work remotely they have more control of their time and can at any point pause to gamble, I personally I work remotely from my house so in-between work I could take a break place a bet and continue then at the end of the day I can go check on my bets so basically I place bet at work even if it's not a very formal office, more like my work station at home from where I work.

You can't focus when you do it on your work because you're thinking of your losses/wins. That's why if you're a working guy and you want to gamble, do it on your free time and maybe at your home and separate the workplace from your gambling activities.

I even read some stories that these people that does gamble at their workplace or became addicted were certainly affecting their jobs and more with their treasury department.

That's crazy to be honest and that only shows that when one is addicted, he can do a lot of crazy things just to satisfy his gambling cravings.

Seriously. Any of you who are gambling at work, seek professional help. Believe it or not, you need help, and you will end up seeking it sooner or later, so sooner is better. Maybe in some exceptional cases of people who work long hours alone and get bored, like a building doorman bets from time to time to get entertained and theres is no problem.But in general, if you are on the street, at work, or on the bus and you have to gamble, you have a problem.