When I was little I thought that getting fired actually meant that your boss would tie you to a stake and set you on fire. When my mom told me her friend had just gotten fired, I was horrified and started crying. It took an explanation and an hour of reasurrance for me to believe they had not set her on fire and that she was still alive. I was about 6 years old.
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