16. A was engaged as a delivery personnel by a luxury optical store. In his two years of employment, he had twice served a one-month suspension for losing clients’ reading glasses. This time, he was tasked to deliver a pair of luxury eyeglasses worth PHP 250,000.00 to a client. On the way to the client’s address, A passed by his girlfriend’s house for coffee where he lost the eyeglasses. Consequently, the optical store dismissed A for gross and habitual neglect of duty. Is the dismissal of A valid? Reason(s).