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Let's face it, what the judge did was a miscarriage of justice. If that guy was sacked based on the subject matter, it would have been a different thing but he was emphatically sacked for crypto involvement despite not being illegal in his country, these are two different things and this guy was not involved in suspicious acts, neither did he err in his responsibilities as an employee, so we should not drag it far.
Also, desperation is a different context that never showed in the suit. Gambling or not, employees are desperate on a daily basis, it is now left to how the establishment tightens its security not to allow unsuspected/unscrupulous employees to take advantage of it.
It's really hard to know without having all the facts, which I'm sure the judge had...
Also, yes, people do get frustrated, and desperate in many situations, but I guess you can know that it will potentially happen if you know that someone is a gambling addict.
I think getting fired for something like this might actually be OK...
Naturally, when an employer finds out that an employee is a gambler or at least just a lover of gambling, this immediately becomes something akin to a black mark in the employee's work biography. This is especially true if the employer simply did not know about this employee's hobby until some point and suddenly accidentally or through a denunciation from other employees found out about it. The attitude of course ml to instantly change most negatively, this in turn entails increased control over the employee by his superiors. But the results of the control may just show that the employee has insufficient or reduced labor productivity. And this, of course, is a very compelling argument for the superiors to fire such an employee.