@IT_KETI: First of all, Thanks for bringing this interesting topic which is relevant to almost all the nepalese students who had/are worked/working in gas-station.

So here's my take.

While in my college days, I always use to question myself about the same issue. Is it ethical to steal stuff from dhoti while i only get paid $6 an hour and had to bust my ass off ? If stealing is not ethical, why is dhoti stealing my right to getting paid the minimum wage? Why are my employee rights stolen? When i worked on american owned motel, couple of customers vandalized the room and i was the one that was penalized $1000 for it? Was that legal? If it is not, why i am responsible for that?

So basically, it just doesn't only happen in gas station. It happens everywhere, in motel, gas-station and even in restaurants. We, immigrants are exploited one way or another. Either it is a money based or service based. After thinking about it too much, although i got exploited, i just couldn't do it. So now the question comes, why didn't i do it?

First of all, i would say i couldn't do it because I haven't stolen money in my whole life. During childhood, I stole comics from the bookstore which I don't count. The reason for not counting it is just like krishna stealing yogurt during childhood ;-). So i would think if i haven't stolen money until now, why would i do it now? Will i be happy feeling afterwards although no body will see it? What if i got caught stealing some dollars/items which might hamper my immigration status? Someone said that, It's always hard to steal something for the first time. After that, you have less fear to do it again.Questions like this always hovered around my mind and hence i couldn't do it.

Now the question comes how long would you continue getting exploited? Well i would say, Find a better job or suffer like it until you graduate.

@chaurey: Although i agree with almost all your opinion but not about faking resume. Almost all people(american,indian) does it. I don't know if you are aware or not, there is also a american owned company which specializes in giving false references for your resume for money. So stealing money/faking resume are two different conditions. While stealing money from anywhere is strictly illegal and can be penalized but faking resume hasn't been illegal until now. Even the HR knows that every people tweak their resume here/there to get job.

Last but not least, just to remind you, Krishna asked Yudhistir to kill dronacharya by cheating saying that his son "Aswathama" is dead. That was also a cheat but it was for good purpose to gain victory for himself/humanity.

Hope this helps!

Peace

Sirus_Me