A Polish bus driver has been fired for sending 38,000 text messages on his company cell phone in a losing effort to win a contest jackpot.
Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in the northwestern Polish city of Slupsk, ran up a tab of some 94,000 zlotys ($34,000) with his text messages while trying to win a 100,000-zloty ($36,000) SMS contest that ended June 30.
A city bus drivers' monthly company phone bill is supposed to be limited to 15 zlotys ($5).
Wojcik sent an average of 1,200 SMS text messages a day, each costing 2.40 zlotys ($0.86), on his work cell phone.
Wojcik told TVN24 television he wanted to buy a second car with his possible winnings. "Now I'm without work," he said.
There is a Biblical principle to be learned by the unwise decisions of Mr. Wojcik. The Bible says...
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 28:19-20, ESV
God will bless the man who earns his wage. Activities that rob us of our time and resources (such as gambling) generally lead to some level of poverty, and often to a certain measure of compulsion.
Work hard and enjoy the fruit of your honest labor. To count on "easy money" is a fool's way of thinking.
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