I was listening to a visiting learned speaker that combined two hot topics here – pritzut challenges in workplace and business ethics. The speaker proposed a list of humros to deal with the first issues and then went to a several kulos for cases like billing the company for the food that spoiled and was reimbursed by the hotel. He judged some permissible and some not, all with impeccable sources in poskim.
I was struck by the dissonance between being the direction – all humros in first case and just burning desire to make an extra buck in the second – and the great bonding with the audience. Just when I was thinking should I object when everyone agrees, I was relieved when suddenly the Rosh Kollel starting shouting – geneiva, geneiva
When I asked the speaker privately, he explained that pritzus in workplace leads to irreversible damage – broken families, etc. This still did not explain the desire for geneiva. When I asked Rosh Kollel, he suggested that for him business honesty is the most important parameter for shiduchim (I presume he took a number of other things for granted as easily researchable, while business honesty is not).