An ex-neighbour, who worked as a bank-teller had once told me, his good friend, a bank-teller too, was too tempted with monies around him, that the good friend brought home several thousand ringgit of the newly delivered money meant for the next day's business after they knocked off from their overtime at around 10pm.
He called up the mother to inform of her son's temptation.
The mother persuaded him to return the money but he claimed that the money was righfully his as he's overworked and underpaid.
The mother did not sleep the whole night but sat on her praying rug, praying for God to enlighten him.
The next day, after the morning prayer, the good friend went to work earlier than usual, placed the money where it was supposed to be, and submitted his resignation letter.
No one knew about the incidence except my good neighbour.
To forget the whole episode, my neighbour too, resigned from the bank.
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Then, on another occasion, I was at a house where it was affected by flood in Segamat a few years ago.
My friend was only able to clean her house after 3 days the flood receded as she still had to work during the flood. Worst still, she worked almost 12 hours daily.
Although she works in the bank counting money, but during the flood, she brought her iron to work - to iron money.
Flood water seeped into the ATM machine at her working place and all monies in the machine were completely wet.
How was it to see lots and lots of money? I asked her.
Whatever is hers is hers. Whatever is not, working with money is not for the gullible, she said.
Yes, I admit. I used to collect
fees and it sum up to thousands.
Money can be said as the essence of life or the root of evil, any which statement we choose.
Today's Straits Times stumped me as I can assume that this immature youth's proud parents, whose son work in Singapore are now ashamed.
He will be barred from entering the country. His future?
Jailed For Stealing $50,000
A CERTIS Cisco vault assistant, who was in charge of keeping cash boxes and helped himself to S$50,000, was jailed 1 1/2 years on Monday. Worker Lim Ming Yao pleaded guilty in a district court to stealing the money and taking it to Malaysia.
The court heard that the 19-year-old started work at Certis Cisco in April.
As the vault assistant, the Malaysian was to assist the vault custodian in issuing and receiving these boxes containing cash for automated teller machines or holding the cash earnings of retail businesses.
On June 5, Lim cut open a box in the inner sanctum of the vault at the Certis Cisco Secure Logistics centre in Jalan Afifi and stuffed the money in his jeans pocket and later placed the money in a sling bag.
After his shift ended at 7am the next day, Lim signed out taking the sling bag full of money, and crossed over to Johor after 8am.
Certis Cisco reported the theft on June 9 - four days after the offence.
However, within weeks, Lim was tired of life on the run and surrendered himself with $41,150 and RM900 (S$380) on him.
Asking District Judge Lee Poh Choo for a lenient sentence, Lim said that he surrendered himself because he realised his mistake.
The Malaysian was jailed 1 1/2 years for stealing from his employer and jailed nine months for moving criminal proceeds amounting to $50,000 out of the country. As the sentences were ordered to run together, he will have to serve only 1 1/2 years in jail.
