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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 6233637" data-attributes="member: 7808">I occasionally play the lottery for entertainment, but I have also played many times for social reasons.&nbsp; At various jobs that I have had, there have been lottery pools when the pot hit a certain threshold.&nbsp; These pools can be a great tool for social interaction and professional development.&nbsp; It is a way to interact with your boss on a personal level.&nbsp; It's a way to meet people from other departments that you may not work with on a daily basis.&nbsp; It's a way for departments that are at a different social and financial levels to interact with relatively equal footing.&nbsp; I think I owe a small but notable part of my success at my first job out of college to the social interactions that resulted from the lottery pool.&nbsp; Definitely worth the buck or two a month I threw at it.Scratch tickets are also a great general purpose, low cost gift to keep on hand around the holidays.&nbsp; &quot;Oh, you unexpectedly bought me some candy! How nice.&nbsp; By an amazing coincidence, I got you a gift too!&quot;&nbsp; Me and my wife also keep a couple of gift cards on hand for the same reason (to places we would go to if they end up not getting used).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 6233637, member: 7808"] I occasionally play the lottery for entertainment, but I have also played many times for social reasons. At various jobs that I have had, there have been lottery pools when the pot hit a certain threshold. These pools can be a great tool for social interaction and professional development. It is a way to interact with your boss on a personal level. It's a way to meet people from other departments that you may not work with on a daily basis. It's a way for departments that are at a different social and financial levels to interact with relatively equal footing. I think I owe a small but notable part of my success at my first job out of college to the social interactions that resulted from the lottery pool. Definitely worth the buck or two a month I threw at it. Scratch tickets are also a great general purpose, low cost gift to keep on hand around the holidays. "Oh, you unexpectedly bought me some candy! How nice. By an amazing coincidence, I got you a gift too!" Me and my wife also keep a couple of gift cards on hand for the same reason (to places we would go to if they end up not getting used). [/QUOTE]

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