I used to believe that Fired and Hired both meant that you were out of a job. Me and a friend also thought it was an insult. We used to run up to other kids and yell, "Your fired! Your hired!"
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I thought "deployed" meant "fired".Anon
- My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.— Sally's mommy
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.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 you were fired, you were shot.— Murray
- I used to think that blow-jobs happened when you got fired from a job— MeGaN