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Hopefully not another employee stealing credit cards, Brooke mused. Or any sort of headache-inducing __ops moment,_ like the time one of the restaurant managers called to ask if he could fire a line cook after discovering that the man was a convicted murderer.__eez. How__ you learn that?_ Brooke had asked.__e made a joke to one of the waiters about honing his cooking skills in prison. The waiter asked what he__ been serving time for, and he said, __urder.____ bet that put an end to the conversation real fast. And yes, you can fire him,_ Brooke had said. __bviously, he lied on his employment application._ All of Sterling__ employees, regardless of job position, were required to answer whether they__ ever been convicted of a crime involving __iolence, deceit, or theft._ Pretty safe to say that murder qualified.Ten minutes later, the manager had called her back.__m . . . what if he didn__ exactly lie? I just double-checked his application, and as it turns out, he did check the box for having been convicted of a crime.__rooke had paused at that. __nd then the next question, where we ask what crime he__ been convicted for, what did he write?___h . . . __econd-degree murder.____ see. Just a crazy suggestion here, Cory, but you might want to start reading these applications a little more closely before making employment offers.___lease don__ fire me.