Do You Join Office Lottery Pools?
As you may know, the Powerball jackpot is very quickly approaching a quarter of a billion dollars. And when that happens, people start to dream big.
Whenever the jackpots start to balloon to these levels, $235 million as of this writing, a bunch of my co-workers go in on a pool.
As we saw right here in Toms River two years ago, when workers at The Ocean County Vehicle Maintenance Department won a share of a nearly $500 million jackpot, these types of arrangements can actually end up working out great for the co-workers.
But, there have also been a number of stories where these arrangements don't work out well, and end up with hurt feelings at best, and lawsuits at worst.
In the end, the way I see it is that it can't hurt to throw $10 dollars in the office pool. If we don't win, we don't win together. If we do win, well, that will be $10 really well spent!
What about you? Do you go in on office lottery pools? Comment below and let us know!