Topic: Who among you here is gambling at work? - page 9. (Read 7586 times)

You're absolutely right in my own opinion as a learned person you're suppose to know the implications of gambling when you're at work,you should know that there is always time for everything once is time for work you have to concentrate on the work.probably when you return from work,you have all day to do whatever thing you wish to do either.is only a foolish person that will play gamble when he's at work,what if you get fired?what will become of you? someone who has plan and a better future will never think of gambling when he's at work.

It really depends on the type of job you have.

Some jobs require full undivided attention whereas others can be done while watching a movie for example.

Gambling in the second case should probably not be a big deal.

This is only the best time that you would really be doing gambling on which on the time that you would really be vacant or free time. Dont tend to go against with the rules since you are just a worker and you have been hired to do work and not to gamble specially on working hours. Just like been said above by other people that if you cant bare up to put up the risks on losing your job then you should simply quit up on the things that you've been currently doing.Your boss or your fellow workers might really be just that looks fine on the time that you do gamble but you dont really know in background that they are alkready making out those kind of complaints basing up into the situation that you are in. This is why it would be better that you should really be avoiding it at all cost if you dont really like for some potential
problems or would really be totally lose your work.

If  you dont care then its up to you but i would say that it would be better that you should only gamble on the time that you do go home or with your free time. There would be no someone
who would stop you on doing that and you've been paid to do your work and not to gamble specially into those working hours.

The company hire them to work, so every one must focus to work. They have a break time, the worker can use this time if they want to gamble or to do any activity apart from the work. It is too much if a worker tries to gamble when it is the time for working in the company. He deserves to fire from the job, he shows a bad attitude in the working area. Using phone also ruins the focus in working, it may bring bad impact to the quality of the job.

Indeed. For some jobs, the use of cellphones is completely prohibited. I think it is very reasonable because it can harm the workers and the company. It must lower the quality of their works. I also think using cellphones will be useless for some jobs. So, the chance to gambler during working is actually not so easy.

Always remember that we go to company for working, we don't go there for gambling. 

Not all companies allow the use of cell phones. Even though I have seen many that don't allow the use of cell phones in the organisation, I have still seen most of them that still allow the use of cell phones in my country, but they are just told not to allow it to distract them from the work they are doing. 
 
It's only when the person has been cut off doing something that is not related to their job or has violated one of the company's policies that they can use the ban on cell phone usage as punishment.

I have seen a few health organisations and their workers still being allowed to make use of phones here in my country, even when those staff are informed of playing video games at the time of duty.

Sure thing to happen as if you already compromising your job, either physically or mentally if the only matter for you is your gambling activities your employer will not have any other options but to cut your ties with them,  we all know what gambling can do especially if you already been deeply engaged,  your decision making is affected and all the activities that you have in life will also be affected,  gambling iis something that can really ruined your life, maybe at first you can control but as time goes by your appetite and your engagement will be deeper to the point that you are willing to risk everything in life.

Yeah but they don't lose their money on social media, do they? That's the difference and it's a huge one. After losing your money one might end up stressed and unable to concentrate on their main job.


Sounds like a prison  to me.

Our professionalism is tested in this case, it is true that we are paid to do tasks from the company, whatever tasks it is, we are not paid to do other things that we should not do at work. Before we work, we should have signed a work contract, which contains the rules and regulations concerning our work later. If we have signed it, it means we have agreed with everything. Maybe some companies have more flexible rules in the use of cell phones, but that does not mean we can be arbitrary, instead we should be grateful because maybe it will help in times of emergency.

It's a form of responsibility that we take on, whether we can be responsible or not. Especially if we try to steal time to just gamble, in my opinion gambling must also know the rules, where we can gamble and where we cannot do it. If we really want to gamble, then we can use the break time to do it. Do not let it harm us, because it could be that when we are caught gambling during working hours it will lead to dismissal. It's ridiculous if that happens.

Even though there might be something which might not be written or included up on gambling at work in regarding with your work regulation or whatever it would be but still its not really that ethical
or something ideal or recommended that you do make yourself having that involvement with gambling while you do work. Its never been that appealing for your work or employer on seeing
that you've been dealing up with other things in working hours. It would really be totally that better that you should really be avoiding yourself on such issues or potential problems if you
do really just that simply quit up on the things that you are doing on work site. You could always deal up with gambling activity on the time that you would really be going at home.

Your employer might not be having those kind of complains about on your gambling in work but sooner or later when things turns out to be that excessive anymore
then this is the time that you might be told up on having at least some break or the worst that you might be totally laid off or you would really be the ones who will
be the first candidate if ever there would really be some removal. It would really be that depending on the efficiency of course.

Each company has varying regulations, including regulations that limit the use of cell phones or completely prohibit users while working, cell phone use can trigger users to carry out habitual activities while working, some workers will access gambling in secret to avoid CCTV footage installed in various corners of the office. I agree with your opinion that the company pays for every activity you do related to company activities and they don't pay a penny for being careless and playing on your cell phone.

So, don't ever do external activities while you are working, the boss will monitor every employee, even though he won't reprimand them directly, but he will wait for the right moment to call you to talk personally about your status in the company.

Indeed, they are limiting to avoid any distractions inside the working area, though there are other company who allows the use of cellphone depending to the line of business, but most of the time especially when the nature is producing products they are not allowed to use their phones, not just limited to gambling but also to use their time browsing online or taking time to chat with their friends of relatives, they are not being paid to do that but instead they are being paid to work and accomplished their daily task.


If you are allowed to use your device and you have that good control when betting in any sports that you are involved as chances that it can also take some of your time is possible especially when you are already having an addiction with the sports gambling that you particiapte with, it can affect your production and maybe also affects your emotions.

It is easy to gamble at work depending on the kind of work if we are always betting on sport book. This is the only way we could gamble without being caught by our employer since it does not require frequent looking at the game to determine the outcome of the bet. Sport bets is very easy and all we have to do is to look for the team we want to bet on and choose the option that is bets for such game. This is .keep flexible than playing casino games that would require you to be looking your screen every seconds. There are some jobs that it will be very difficult for us to gamble easily due to the time that is require to be working especially tedious one.

Every company regulations have implemented strict rules to limit cell phone use during work time because they have to focus on doing their work optimally without the influence of cell phones or other external influences.

I have seen several videos of company workers, they never use cell phones even though their line of work is only moving goods or wrapping goods, even though they have free time to wait for goods to be produced but they are not allowed to use cell phones while working except during rest time then they will be exempt from rules for using mobile phones.

Some companies in my locality have very strict rules when it comes to the use of mobile devices.
 
They have noticed that many people always get so addicted to their phones that it distracts them from what actually brought them to the company, and one of these things is them gambling with their phones without you knowing what they are doing. 
 
Country in someone's company here unless they're in the managerial positions once you resum duty, you are expected to hand over your phone and sign it off, and you won't be allowed to use it until the hour break period or when you have signed out of work for that day.

Active gambling while employed to do a job seems too much to justify, too much risk and too cheeky an action to ever justify if caught.  However if you gamble via lottery or entry type contests which is also a kind of gamble thats fair enough, any game or entry you can start and stop as the work requires or to answer the phone is fair.   You are not using up much resources just filling out a form or similar kind of low level interaction during work, I've done that previously and its fine imo.

I understand that point, and it's very true, to think about what you're saying, there's a lot of reason when doing purely physical work, but even so concentration is required, but in the case that, for example, I sometimes have to do automation and control work. of a PLC for a certain process in a company, I need time to make my control plane to see if it is compatible with that of the engineer who sends it from Germany, or any other country, then I carry it out with the connections, it is worth highlighting If I make a mistake in one of the connections I am capable of killing many people because they are in a room that could be energized, and that is very delicate, in fact many engineers have lost their license for things like this, and that is true. It's sad just to realize that I'm in that job and then because I'm playing I start to see that I can lose a lot in the casino and I leave aside the work of energizing, but I forget and I do it, just because I'm playing in the casino using the telephone, that could cause many deaths, and that is totally irresponsible, apart from the fact that they put me in prison.

So in this type of work I don't recommend that, now it is a job that I also do, for example carrying optical fiber for the community or the Internet, it is a field job, I have to go by car, it takes me some time. time and even so I go to be able to see my things well and on the trip that I was in the car, there I was able to take my phones and play calmly, but that is another thing, it is another mention of seeing the game and yes, it can be applied , but it is something that I do not recommend doing, because even though it is a boss job I am going to need concentration, first to get out quickly and second so that the things I am going to do are completely planned, that is what I call a good system To do it, there are also people who when they do maintenance on machines use the 6WH method just to do it faster, which is a very nice technique, and it also requires concentration.

There would really be certain conditions that might having that kind of exemptions but we know that we shouldnt really be able to tolerate out such behavior. You could do it one or twice
but not every friday on which you would really be that playing on the last hour since you've been confident that it is the last hour of the week plus its payday. Well, not all people would really be
too die hard with their jobs and really that spending their times on last drops on doing hard work. It would really be just that there are people who are dedicated to work and there
are ones who are really just simply do the things that they do have in mind.

The thing you should really be that in concern that you arent that affecting your work or not putting up on risks just because you have done something which its not recommended.
Its not bad to gamble but of course not on the time that you do work. You are really that making problems on which it shouldnt really be done in the first place.

Your performance can not be reduced when you have done all your work It is Friday and there is 1 hour left to work. Do you think someone is going to push himself hard during that one hour? Of course not. Especially on a salary day. Even the clients would come or call unobtrusively, as they understand that everyone is about to run home after a working week.

Of course there are jobs the require focus and working hard. Not everyone can make a pause and take a rest during work. But nobody is killing himself at work. There are rare cases, but such people are few.

You cannot combine gambling and work because it will reduce your performance. As you said, when gambling we will think about strategies to win. It requires energy and focus and you can't divide it between work and gambling. Your boss will scold you and you will not be productive at work. You also cannot enjoy your gambling because you do it during working hours. I can't imagine what it would be like if I were in your position because it's very unpleasant when you can't enjoy the game you're playing.

          -   If you are a regular employee in a company and you know that work is important to you, but you are also tempted to gamble at the same time as work, for sure there will be some nervousness while doing it. Of course, you are worried that your superior might catch you and make you lose your job.

But if work is really important to you, you shouldn't do gambling at the same time while you're at work, which gives you passive income; unlike gambling, you're not always lucky.
Instead in gambling most of the time you will get lose in it.