When I was about 5, my best friend told me that she heard her father was "fired" from work. We discussed this to figure out what it meant. We finally decided it meant that his boss put him in the center of a circle and built a ring of fire around him!
A childhood belief about work
you weren't the only one
51 of you believed this
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I used to believe that when someone said they had been fired, they had been lit on fire. — Tammy