I have a great job. My boss allows me to work at home as long as I am always contactable by email, phone, cell-phone, fax and homing pigeon. Once or twice a month, depending on various factors, I go into the office, either to fill up on supplies or to attend a general staff briefing or to report on my activities. The system works well. I don’t go out into the traffic and the boss collects the traveling hours I save. And of course I can do a little online gambling at lunchtime in my kitchen. 

On the last day of the month I go to the office. That’s report day. I fill in time sheets, write progress reports, chat up the secretaries and attend to other important aspects of my work. I take my laptop with me because that’s my mobile office. Last month was the same, except that there was some panic going on and I was told to go and wait in the conference room. I was alone with my laptop, so to pass the time, I logged into an online casino and began playing roulette.

I won a couple of small bets and lost a few and I was pretty well square, one ear tuned to the door handle signifying the boss’s arrival and the other listening to the croupier  in the online casino. As I remember it now, I must have had a win and not noticed that I had left a rather large chip on my birthday, number 23. It came up and there was a lot of money lying on that number. Then everything happened at once. I heard the boss at the same moment the croupier spun the wheel. I waited an extra split second and closed the cover of the laptop. When I got home I found that the little white ball had dropped into 23 again. I won a huge amount. 

Here are my moral conscience questions: Should I tell my boss that I had been gambling online in his conference room? Should I tell him that I won this huge amount of money? Should I offer him half my winnings?

Posted on: July 16, 2007

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