As a child, I overheard my mom talking with someone about an acquaintance who got fired, and literally took it to mean that people who do a bad job get killed by being thrown into a fire. For a while I was terrified of what would happen if I wasn't good at my job when I grew up
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- 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 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 think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin