A criminal record is like a skeleton in the closet – it may come back to bite you at some point in the future. For one Wisconsin woman, her skeleton in the closet was shoplifting. Her charge came back to bite her in the behind 40 years later!

Acccording to bizjournals.com, Fifty-eight-year-old Yolanda Quesada was sacked by her employer, Wells Fargo, after it discovered a shoplifting conviction back in 1972!

Quesada claims she was a good employee, and has the pins, certificates and photos to prove it. But after more than five years of good service, she was fired due to her previous theft conviction.

The reason for her firing is actually mandated by federal law where banks are prohibited from hiring or continuing the employment of any person with a criminal record involving dishonesty or breach of trust.

Quesada was a customer service representative for the bank, fielding calls from people with questions about mortgages. She doesn't handle any cash.

Wells launched a series of FBI background checks in 2010 of its home mortgage team. Quesada held a full-time job at the bank at $33,000 a year until last week

It again goes to show that especially in this digital age you have to your record clean. Perhaps a mandatory Wisconsin theft class in high school could have prevented Quesada from losing her job this year.