Sadly, it’s very hard to fight this stigma if there’s a lot of affected people globally that involved on gambling.
The stigma won't work, but the society insists on persuading players to see themselves as irresponsible due to the mistakes of addicts like the employee. Insulting and sidelining compulsive gamers changes nothing, instead it lands more players into troubles. Suppose efforts are made in talking to these victims and asking answering questions to them they'll have a rethink faster than saying illwords to them.