When you let someone into your home you need to share a certain degree of trust, which is something you’d think would have been established after a seven year period.

Apparently that’s not good enough for 29-year-old Dawood Gulzar, because he dismissed his domestic worker for allegedly stealing a tea bag.

Singular – one tea bag.

Here he is ranting to News24:

“This lady is a thief. She never stole money, but she’s stealing our small things like a tea bag and some sugar,” he said this week.

When asked if he had proof that the woman, Lenah Phiri, 32, had stolen something from his house, he nearly lost his temper.

“My friend, I don’t need to prove to you; I know my groceries. I count my things when leaving the house and I know them very well. She should have asked because I know it’s very cold nowadays, rather than stealing,” he said.

So what does the 32-year-old domestic worker, Lenah Phiri, have to say about this:

“I still can’t believe it. I thought my boss was cracking a joke when he said I stole a tea bag. I have been nothing but loyal to my work for the past seven years, never think of stealing anything. I was told that I stole a tea bag. A tea bag out of all things,” she said…

“How can I steal a tea bag instead of money? I always found R200 and R100 banknotes when I’m doing laundry, but I gave them all back. It’s obvious that I was no longer useful to them after all these years,” Phiri said.

The CCMA will now look into the matter, but all of this raises a point many South Africans are all too keen to turn a blind eye towards.

Our thoughts are with her, as it’s unlikely that she will be on the R95 per month MadeSure policy – which covers loss of earnings, a funeral plan and hospital cover.

You can read all about that HERE.

[source:news24]

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