What Is Considered Stealing At Work?
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1:12Let's not go on Facebook. Oh, wow. Look what he ate for lunch. Maybe I'll have that too. Oh, look, look what she did this weekend. Maybe I'm going to do that also. They start playing on Facebook for an hour and a half. Then, after they finish, they get bored of Facebook and go on Twitter. They start, oh, Donald Trump just said he's going to bomb Iran. Wow, Donnie. Good job, Donnie. Now he's going to go for something else. He's playing with Twitter. After he's bored with Twitter for 15-20 minutes, he's like, what else could I do? You know what? That guy at the Beit Knesset told me that if I could do something, if I could actually make the call for him, he's going to pay me 20 dollars. You know what? I'm going to make that call for him. It's only 5-10 minutes. My boss is on lunch. So he makes the call for his friend to do such and such at the shul. Then he calls his friend and says, "Listen, I did it for you. You're going to give me 20 dollars today." What did you do? You just used your boss's time that he's paying you to work for somebody else. That's 100% stealing. 100% stealing. You have to understand that if you work for somebody for a certain amount of time, you work for them and...
2:16Now, sometimes certain companies don't necessarily care about every detail that you do. So, for example, they're going to tell you, "Listen, as long as you do your job, I don't really care how you do it." As long as you do your job. So if you want to do your job while you're listening to headphones, listen to headphones. I don't really care. So if you want to listen to your headphones to Shiur Torah, no problem. He doesn't care. He doesn't care that you listen to Shiur Torah as long as you get your job done. But if, as a result of you listening to even a Shiur Torah, that's a mitzvah. you end up not working, then guess what? That shiur Torah is not even a mitzvah anymore. That's stealing. Meaning, first, if you're working, the first priority is the job. First priority is the job. If the boss allows you to do other things while you do it, no problem. But if the boss is not paying you to do the other things, and it's disturbing the job, then guess what? It's stealing. It's called gezel. So, if somebody pays attention to how they work, Simply put, how they work, ninety percent of people would change their job. Why? Because the conditions they have now versus the conditions that the employer is offering them are two different things—two different things. That's why we have to pay attention to our actions. And if you pay attention to your actions, for sure you're going to be a fantastic human being, a fantastic neshama, with an eternity in Gan Eden—heaven. And that's what we all want.
