Betting on the World Cup results has become a high stages game for staff of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the organisation that runs the Thai capital.
Civil servants working for the BMA were warned formally today that they will lose their jobs if they are caught betting on which team will win the World Cup playoffs.
If they make a wager, according to BMA's Permanent Secretary Nathanon Thavisin, the civil servants themselves are guaranteed to lose the big game--they'll be out of their jobs.
Khunying Nathanon, believing that gambling in Thailand is out of control, has ordered her subordinates to refrain from gambling ”or to be fired."
Betting is illegal, she said, and gambling is rampant in the country.
More than that, she said, problems such as sinking into debt and poor work efficiency can follow.
BMA officials found to have been involved in gambling would be dismissed, she stressed.
Khunying Nathanon also issued a similar order that was circulated to all schools under the BMA, ordering school administratiors, teachers and other staff not to gamble.
source: Bangkok post
