Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 54.

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Quote from: Sanitough on October 12, 2023, 09:52:01 PM

I'd like to hear from those of you who have experienced this or are still dealing with it. Please share your testimonies.

Yes, I do this frequently but not on my office hours. I usually place bet on my computer when I arrived early to my office then check the result of my bet later on after work. I’m only playing sportsbook at office since it’s a serious offense to be caught playing gambling on the workspace.

Reading your story I can assume that you are playing an interactive game such as slot or other games that requires attention most of the time that’s why you become stressed. It”s very wrong to gamble at work not only ethically but also you can’t focus much on both your gambling and work that will result your to underperform on both.

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I also sometimes gamble at the office, and in my opinion almost all gamblers can now gamble anywhere because of modern developments where accessing gambling sites can be done anywhere using a smartphone.

However, after often losing when playing at the office, I finally stopped playing at the office, because after I evaluated playing gambling at the office and playing at home, it was more profitable to play at home because my concentration would be full on gambling, this is different when playing at the office with concentration. We will be torn between gambling and responsibility at work. And what's worse, if we leave it like that, it will become a habit so that we will no longer be smart in managing our time between gambling and work. My advice, before it becomes a habit, it's better to prevent it now.

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Quote from: Jawhead999 on October 12, 2023, 11:40:29 PM

At least it's just a temporary effect because the way to stop it is don't gamble at work.

But what if your employee or your boss know you're a gambler? it's a long term effect and every employees always know you're a gambler even you've stop to gamble. Most people always think gambler will give a bad effect at work, so you might be ostracized by other employees or kicked from the company.

Employers don't like what will distract their employee and so in the first place if at the interview level and you were asked about gambling and whether you criticize those gambling, it is a way to ask if you have interest in gambling or whether you gamble so your response will determine if you will get the job base on what they want.

If a company is not looking for gamblers you may not be employed in such places especially if you have to be handling cash at the work place. So it depends on what the employer wants but majority of the establishment want someone committed to the time of work. No employer will be happy if you misuse the working hours.

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Well, I gamble at work from time to time, but my job is like that, sometimes I have "free time" at work. I guess some jobs require total focus, but my job is not like that, so I can allow myself to gamble or do some other things while I am at work. It's not always like that, but there are good moments at work.

This sad story is about gambling losses, but it's gambling... we all win and lose all the time, if people can't bear gambling losses they should avoid gambling in the first place.

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This question is interesting. For me, I would say that there are a lot of jobs out there that don't provide more time for the employees who are working. Some workers don't have the chance to rest from work and do not talk about gambling during work time, but there are other jobs that don't stress the workers. Those employees who work in a company that doesn't stress the workers. But I think some of the workers during their free time at work (break) might try to have fun or rest for a while and during that process, if there is any gambler in the midst of the workers, then the gamblers can gamble online because it's free time for them, but still it is not a good endeavour to gamble at work.

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Gambling at work is really bad and the access through smartphones have made gambling anywhere an easy thing. Most of the gamblers could've gambled from their workplace during the early days into gambling. Gambling in workplace affect the concentration and this will surely reflect on the performance.

Once I read a story in our forum, an user gambles his entire salary in a night and from the next day onwards he starts borrowing for his daily living. This guy even on winning never stops and goes for big, which finally ends up losing everything. At any situation such kind of gambling shouldn't happen. With gambling we should have the limitations and should know when to play. If not, this is gonna be real troublesome.

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Quote from: Sanitough on October 12, 2023, 09:52:01 PM

I've never done it online. Peer-to-peer (P2P), yes, I did it during the NBA finals last season.

But I have gambled online before, while in an online class, lol. It was on autoplay, though.

Be careful when gambling while at work, especially if you are using your company's internet connection. Such activities can be tracked by the network administrator. If your workplace has a policy against gambling, it could get you into trouble. Moreover, I think that could be called as unprofessionalism.

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I highly do not recommend gambling at work just my cents, work is work, leisure time is leisure time, play gambling when you don't to any kind of work, gives more distractions to your work and might result of not giving a good potential effort giving to your work potential too that your heads will notice your poor performance, and not being focus in your task. Also, it is really hard once you play gambling and you lose consecutively there's a chance you cannot control your emotions due to this and makes a not good response to other co-workers which makes a possible to raise concern with the HR team and make a bad credit reflection to you. Ideal not bring your gambling addiction in work.

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Quote from: Bitinity on October 12, 2023, 11:01:59 PM

I have to say that those who are gambling at work are people who cant manage their time well. Working time should be used wisely, to focus on the work only but I wont deny that I have done it before because I was so bored with what I do in my office. I realize that it is a mistake and I do not do it again till now to avoid something bad with my career. Better to manage our gambling time, gamble when we have free time only, time when we have nothing to do at all. Time is priceless especially when it comes with our family, job, or relationship.

Those who are gambling at work are obviously not passionate on their job, because if they really love their job, they will use their time to work productively and not to be productive with gambling. Although a lot of us have been mixing our work with gambling, but that’s fine as long as we consistently experience profitability, but when losses start hitting us hard, believe me you will never have the interest to pursue your job and that’s the time your job performance will become poor and unproductive.

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Quote from: Sanitough on October 12, 2023, 09:52:01 PM

I'd like to share my experience with you all. Even though I'm not currently employed, I went through a phase of gambling while I was working in the past, and the outcome wasn't positive. It affected my job performance because, as you may know, when you lose, you tend to dwell on your losses and constantly think about strategies to win. When we talk about work, it usually means we're not particularly wealthy, and imagine what happens when we gamble money we can't afford to lose, especially when we're not earning much.

this is exactly what happened to me too(I mean the highlighted part), it basically consumes your thoughts and instead of focusing on your work, you become distracted and the result is lower performance. not only that, it also affects you emotionally and mentally. the moment I realize that I need to get my shit back together is when I lost that job(not that I stayed long in that company), losing your main source of income is this time and age is scary.

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Gambling at work comes with a lot of disadvantages than than the advantages and that's why it's absolutely unsafe for anyone to gamble at work because the chances of losing focus from work is very likely to happen and when it happens, the gambler will lose a lot of money if his kind of work happens to be a self-employed work or sacked if he's hired.
For instance, when you gamble and lose money, you'll want to gamble more to recover your money and at that particular time, you'll waste more time than you've earlier wanted to use in gambling which will definitely affect your work

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First, thanks for sharing your story. Gambling can damage our wallets, mental health, and careers. Gambling has high stakes, especially with hard-earned money. Our obsessive desire to recover losses distracts us from job, family, and other obligations. When we win, we often gamble again to win more. That rarely happens, leaving us in a vicious loop, as you noted.

Is the brief excitement of gambling worth the long-term stress? Im interested in everyone's stories. Have you managed to keep gambling casual or does it constantly spiral? Its tricky, right? Would like more community stories.

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Quote from: Sanitough on October 12, 2023, 09:52:01 PM

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I don’t experience this personally but imagining doing this is really a disaster. Gambling alone will makes you out on a terrible mental and financial state while doing this at work amplifies the risk since you can lose your job at the same time while you lose your money on gambling.

There’s no way to do this on my work since we cctv camera to monitor all our work but even we have cameras to watch. I will definitely don’t do it since my job is important to me while you already mention what’s the effect of gambling to our performances since we are focus on our game. You’re still lucky that you still have your work tho. Maybe gambling is not for you since you are bringing it to your work already which is a clear sign of addiction.

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At first I tried slots, within a few weeks I was working while in other side, I am playing slots. And I have same experience, my performance getting decreased, because I spend most of my time paying attention to the movement of the reel. Even though we can leave the reel alone by minimizing the tab/window, there is a feeling of not wanting to miss reel by reel by waiting for luck, be it free spins or connected symbol combos. I can do this, because my job is as a freelancer and work from home. Maybe, if I worked in an office, I wouldn't dare try to open anything other than work requirements. Especially if I use office inventory (laptop/desktop). So, there is any possibility for me to experience a decline in our work performance because focus too much on slots.

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I personally don't want to try gambling while I'm working, because I know it will disturb my focus while working, so I have a separate schedule for gambling, namely on weekends when I enjoy my leisure time with my family and also make time to gamble for a few hours. on weekends, after all it wouldn't be fun to gamble at work because we could be fired due to a decline in our work performance.

So it's best to never do that and you can also be an example for others here, including me, at work focus on working, because when we are busy working of course it will also eliminate our desire to gamble, I have experienced the feeling of wanting to gamble. while working but I thought it would just make me unfocused in the end, so I didn't do it. Grin

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It's really risky to gamble at workplace, even you're really bored since you don't have any activity, you must not gamble or doing anything that somewhat give a bad impression for other people. I'm not sure how discipline and toxic your workplace, but most of companies in my country don't like to see their employee play their phones. Playing at workplace looks not professional and many people don't happy with that.

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It is not difficult to gamble at work if we take in consideration that using your mobile is allowed in your company.Even if they restrict you which websites you can access as long as you have a dual sim phone and have a personal sim number beside the work one no one can restrict you which websites you browse through 4G/5G mobile data of your personal sim card.

I do just that,I play with my mobile but I have noticed that every time I play in work when people are in the next offices I have an immense amount of bad luck that is why I only place my sport bets most of the time during office hours rather than gambling massively,I like playing more in the comfort of my home where luck is a bit better.

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I have never done it in the workplace. Inside the company office. I think that's just wrong.
But today that I am working in my house I do it. And I can relate with you especially if we are the only ones shouldering the expenses of the whole family. Mortgage, electric bill, water bill, Internet, daily necessities food, etc...
You cannot risk your money just to try and double it but I did it once and it's not actually the money needed, it's like a spare that I somehow got from another job. I used it to gamble and tried to double the amount, it was successful but then the gambling site started getting it all back until zero. I can say it is really stressful and I have a hard time thinking straight about my work so I just took the rest and said to my manager that I ain't feeling good. Luckily, he accepted my reason and the next day I made sure that I would finish all my job first before gambling.
We need that discipline to adjust or else we will starve.

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I'm a gambler myself, but I have to say it's a risky approach when it comes to juggling it with your job. It's not just about the risk of getting caught, because most gamblers are pretty good at avoiding that. The real issue is when you're not fully focused on your work because you're busy gambling. In that case, you're breaking company rules because you're getting paid to do a job that you're not giving your full attention to.

Of course, the company's rules matter too. If they're lenient, then most employees might end up spending their work time on personal stuff, which is a loss of the company's investment. Imagine getting paid while you're gambling – that might sound great for you, but it's not fair to your employer.

Maybe if you're a high-level executive and your job isn't robotic, like when you're mostly monitoring, you can probably sneak in a little gambling. But be sure not to let it consume you or make you ineffective. Your primary role at work should always take priority.

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Gambling while doing your job can make you unable to work well. This will cause you to lose focus at work and your boss may get angry when he finds out you are gambling. And maybe your boss will say you are addicted to gambling because you can't differentiate between free and work time. If this is the case, maybe your boss will fire you because you are addicted to gambling and as a result, you will lose your job. That means you will not get your usual salary and have difficulty finding a new job.

So if you want to avoid experiencing it, you should not gamble while working. After all, you have more time to gamble at home. And you will only be bothered by people if you gamble in your house or room.

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