In South Korea, A
bank employee was found to be playing online games that use crypto as its in game currency. The bank claimed that the employee is a habitual gambler and fired him from his job. The ex-employee naturally raised his concern to HR as he thinks it is unfair dismissal but the HR rejected his appeal which led him to file a lawsuit. In the end, even the court sided with the bank. Even though the ex-employee claims that he never played during work hours and that his habits did not interfere with his work quality, the court rules it to be undignified to be gambling with crypto.
If crypto wasn't involved, do you think this employee would have gotten fired?
- Frankly speaking, crypto gambling has nothing to do with whether the person was fired from their job, because in reality, it was also the employee's negligence because he did not properly manage his passion for playing online casinos while he was at work.
Then of course the bank company reported against their employee, so the advantage is really on the company's side not on the employee.
Hopefully that was just a lesson to the ex-employee.