When my mom said she might be fired, I didn't recognize the term. She told me it was another way of saying laid off, and so I thought it meant that she would be so mad that she would set fire to her work building as revenge.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- 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 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 believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel