Workers lose belongings after lockers ransacked
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

The lockers where the workers keep their personal belongings

Several shop attendants of a leading mega store at Tungku Link in Gadong were in tears as thieves ransacked their personal lockers and stole their personal belongings on Tuesday afternoon. The thieves escaped with eight mobile phones and cash totalling B$1,000 which belonged to the workers.

The shop attendants said they usually relieved themselves of their personal belongings such as handbags, hand phones and money at the lockers which are located at a distance from the mega store.

"It is the policy of our company that we are not allowed to bring in our personal belongings into the store.

"Every one of us is allocated a locker to keep our belongings," said the workers of the store.

"This is to ensure that we report for duty clean and we are expected to go out of the store clean too when we finish our job."

They added that their lockers were locked from outside but there was no guard assigned to look after the lockers from any mishap.

The theft was believed to have occurred on Tuesday afternoon when it was raining heavily. "We hope the management will allocate a guard to look after the lockers from now on," they said.

The workers said they had lodged police report over the theft.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin