When you got fired, a document stating that you somehow work there was burned somehow, like in the fireplace.Once that document was burned, you couldn,t work there no more.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.Anon
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- I used to believe that drug stores sold illegal drugs and I couldn't work out how they got away with it.— Bigg Jase