When I was quite young, Dad would sometimes bring me with him to the office on Saturdays, when he was catching up on work. He told me not to break anything, or he would be fired. Of course, I believed that meant they'd set fire to 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