Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 7. (Read 7586 times)

Sometimes, when work has stalled and my brain has overheated, I am tempted to play online casinos on my full time job. It's like a way to get distracted and relax for a few minutes. The pros are that it adds thrills and excitement to my boring work day.
But, there are also disadvantages: I lose focus and concentration at work, and also risk being caught by my superiors. Therefore, I try not to get too carried away and use the game as a short entertainment.

It depends on the country where live and also the regulations where work, if live in country that doesn't have ban on gambling and there no ban on gambling in the workplace then I think anyone can gamble if they want.
But apart from all that, worker still has full responsibility for his work and he must really prioritize completing work before doing other activities that are not related to work.
Most important thing is to be able to manage the right time and what do does not interfere with work, so this is clearly not something that needs to be considered unethical.
What more, gambling doesn't require you to use work device because everyone will have cell phone and personal cell phone can be used to access gambling sites so won't damage anything and worry about viruses or problems that will occur.

Everyone has their own rights regarding every activity they carry out, whether it is private or open, certainly no one can prohibit it unless it is prohibited act and clearly has legal regulations.
Everyone also has their own thoughts and whatever they do is their choice so they shouldn't be so dependent on what other people think.

In my opinion, whatever job it is, if it involves gambling, there is a big possibility that problems will occur, as you said, if we are caught gambling, there is a big possibility that we will have serious problems, such as being fired by our superiors from the job we have got. with outside or field-based work, maybe we can do it using an email, but of course that's a risk and could trigger our own emotional changes which will affect our performance and of course that's not good. Just like office-based jobs that involve computers and the internet in their daily lives, this really supports the ability to gamble.

but what you say is true, maybe there are other people who see our gambling activities and people who see our gambling activities can file a complaint or complain about it. In my opinion, it's not looking for face, but the person who gambles during working hours is at fault. . Of course, this should not be done because there will be many impacts that can occur if gambling itself cannot be controlled properly. If you still have good thoughts then it is unethical to do rash things at work, because the workplace has a source of income. Our main goal, of course, is to look after it as well as possible.

At the end of the day it really depends on the actual job you are working at, the contract you have, and the social relationships you have.

Some people can get away with it, others can't.

In some jobs it is impossible, in others it's quite simple.

You can't really make general assumptions about this.

If you do have that a job which is field based and something that really needs up that extreme attention and having that kind of distraction would be something hazardous then getting caught on doing gambling on the time of duty would definitely make yourself that fired but if you are really that working on an office type of work then playing gambling could really be inserted but of course you shouldnt really be that confident
that no one would really be tending to sabotage you and making up some complaints into higher ups or admin reporting on what you've been doing since these things cant really be avoided when it comes to
issues in between fellow workers if things go personal.

This is why it would really be that best that you shouldnt really be doing gambling while  you do work. You arent really just that avoiding yourself into some potential problems but also you are really that trying out to avoid
yourself on being addicted with it on which i would really be saying that this is something more preferable and a nice act i should say.

The answer will depend on the contract you signed with the company you are working for and the overall environment there, I have no doubts that some workplaces could be incredibly relaxed, and your boss or peers will not see anything wrong with you gambling at your job as long as you are attending your responsibilities.

But it is also true, there are many jobs in which you could be fired on the spot if you were to be discovered gambling, so you need to evaluate in which environment you are and take the best decision based on that evaluation.

Is it really forbidden to gamble while at work? It would be unethical to use work devices to access online casino (yet this still depends on the admin if he monitors users activity, or all he cares is that you dont download any virus), but who can forbid me to use my mobile to gamble? Wont it be interference in private life? Technically I can have a lunch at work in the office at my working place and gamble during it. Technically I am still at work.

For this type of game, it is true that it does not require much time, you just need to log in to one of the sites and put your confidence numbers and then leave and come back after a few hours to see the announcement of which number came out the winner at that time. If you are involved in this type of betting then maybe yes it will not interfere too much with your work time and maybe my advice is in terms of the amount of budget, which is where you are more advised to put the amount that you think you can afford to be responsible for if in the end the number you put is not the number that wins the lottery.

That's right, the problem with why it's forbidden to gamble while you're at work is when you're gambling on live casino bets which means you can't miss a beat and have to stay on screen to monitor and play your bets, such as maybe slot games or other live casino games that always need to be played.
 or other live casino games that always require consideration at any time to make decisions and obviously this will interfere with your focus at work.

I myself often play the lottery while I'm working. because it doesn't take a lot of time and is serious to bet there. so that the time to work remains effective and you can still place bets. Who knows, if the lottery we choose actually comes out, just think of it as finding money. If you play live casino, it's very difficult because you have a very short time frame while working. Even in between working hours, it feels like it will be very lacking if you play live casino.

You're right unlike as you said earlier that working is a good example of serving your master as you are rewarded for your work,I think you make a point there, you're not serving any master in gambling instead gamble is the one serving us since we gamble for fun and also for intertainment.but to be realistic gambling when you're at work is not advisable,there are some rules governing most of this companies and one of this rules are: using of cellphone is prohibited, as a worker in such company you have to abide with the rules. that's if you love your job,there are also some people who choose to violate this rules, probably if you're been cought using your cellphone to gamble when you're at work  you will be fired and that is final.

Good one, this a very clear and understandable explanation and I completely agree with you, gambling is not we serving a master, but more like the casino serving us indirectly, since when we serve a master, we get paid wages right?, now, what wages does the casino pay us when we play on the casino to show that we are serving them? If not we eventually losing all our money in the long run, that is to show that we are not serving the casino, but since we are the ones paying the casino with our hard earned money, it simply means that the casino is indirectly serving us, and we are the master, since it's we spending the money.

And besides, I feel that that phrase "one can be serve two masters at a time" is completely outdated and shouldn't be used anymore, for this day, we can find a lot of persons doing multiple jobs, and getting paid well, some of us here even have account in other forums where we are also promoting other services through our signature ad space, and still getting paid as we get paid here on bitcointalk, isn't that serving two masters?

The world have changed a lot, and I feel some of this old phrased should be changed as well, since they no longer apply effectively to what the world we live in today has turned into.

When I was a younger gambler, I wanted to do absolutely everything, and thus I tested myself and thought that I was faster than others. With age, my preferences have changed and now I enjoy taking my time and doing everything after carefully thinking it through. I want to say that in my youth I played at work from my phone and I liked it, but now everything has become the opposite, I don’t want to play at work anymore, but I want to be involved in only one thing. I realized that it’s better to play at home so that nothing distracts me. This way I will get more pleasure from the game, moreover, I think that I will not change this opinion. Maybe I have become more sensitive to little things or something else happened to me, I can’t even give a clear answer.

Wrong phrase, sorry for that sir.

Working is a good example of serving your master as you are rewarded for your work, you'll never loss since you are not gambling. however, gambling should be treated as a different thing, it's not us serving our master but it's us being serve since we gamble to be entertain and to win, and if we are successful with that, we are feeling fulfill not because we are working to get paid, but we are working on our own using our skills from our money to make money.

Yeah it's a Good one,and another thing is to set our priorities right, alot of people can't set their priority right,and which is your job,mind you once you lose it you've lost totally even the little funds for gambling won't be coming again.
So whenever we are at work our focus should be on work alone nothing else,cause once your mind is divided anything can happen  and the outcome will be disastrous.imagine working in a clinic where you attend to patient and you're gambling at that same spot what do you think will be the results it's either you loose your stake or lose a life.
So it's not advisable to gamble while at work as you can't serve two masters at a time.

Sometimes declining some betting activities is not necessary, I believe all dependent on the situation why you are betting. In this case, if you are currently employed, you can decide to go to a casino shop whenever it is right like I said, it’s always good to set a particular amount of betting from your salary so you won’t go above what you have projected, definitely is going to be a problem if you don’t have a budget on your betting activities you end up of using the money for your family, upkeep and groceries to put it away and come back home to face problem with your wife.

The thing is that life is for living, and if you simply work and go to sleep every day, and do nothing else then it would be a wasted life.

If you want to gamble, and you can do it at work, then that's a great thing to do. Why waste your personal time when it's possible to use the company time?

I did not see this as a direct problem of gambling, but I see there are problems with employer. Employer is either weak leader, or does not care how his company fixed assets are being used. Limitless internet is good, but employer must monitor what his employees do. I cant imagine what my boss or admin would do if I would start downloading heavy games and movies at work. I would take most of «internet speed» of whole company and my colleagues work would lag.

But on the other hand, if they have dont all the work, why should not they do what they want during free time? Employer might give them more work, so they wont mess around, but they can ask for a raise for that. Like I’ve said, its employers problem in your case. To many employees do the same work probably. He should fire some, increase payment of those who are left and make them work more. That would be more effective.

There's the right time for everything and right place on whatever things that you do and since you are at work then it would be just that sensible that you should really be doing working and not gambling.
Simple concept or things to be done but this is where some people do really fail on following so until they do find out that they dont have a job on tomorrows.  
This is why it would really be always best that you should really know on what you are doing and be that mindful about your actions because one mistake could cost your job.
So it would be always best that you should really be mindful about on the actions that you are taking rather than on ending up on regretting for the rest of your life
because of what you did.

In my country I saw people placing sports bets while they were at work, I asked them how they do it and they told me that when they are at work they log into their work computer during their lunch break, analyze the games and place sports bets and When they leave work and return home they just wait for the games to start, because according to them, the number of games they put in their multibet is very large, so they need to take a lot of time to analyze each team and they need to watch videos of each team playing, so it's easier for them to use the internet at work and watch lots of videos of each team's games, so they spend many days watching videos of each team's games and watch them at work

I asked them why they don't use the internet on their cell phone or at home, and they told me that they don't want to give up their internet on their cell phone and computer, so they use it at work, which is much faster and the funniest thing is that they they made multibet bets of 500.00 odds and won a lot of money, but even so they didn't want to pay for good quality internet, I confess that I couldn't stop being shocked, for me it was something that I hardly understood, they downloaded heavy games out of enthusiasm, I'm talking about computer video games, they analyzed the games and placed sports bets and won a lot of money but they still didn't put fast internet in their homes.

My opinion was that they behaved like people who liked to suck everything from the company, they didn't care if it harmed the company, they just cared about themselves, it's funny that they have good salaries, but they still have that behavior. people like free things. Many people gamble at their jobs because they take advantage of their job's internet because this way they save money, the money they would use to pay for internet, they will use to go to restaurants and beaches.

You see then, any game require focus. Maybe not a 100% of the time, but at least monitoring for a while what is going on is a must. If a person places a bet, closes browser tab and start working or doing something else, then such strategy will lead to loosing. It shows that a persons cares little about the game, about the result. I find it hard to do one thing at work, and parallel do something completely different. Gambling and working are two processes that hard to combine. For example like reading and cooking. You will get the dish done, but probably forget what you have read. I accept the fact that someone manages to work and gamble parallel, but I think it does not worth spending time like that. You wont win much, you wont get fun and excitement during that gambling period.