What is the origin of "You're Fired!"?
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I could find no real origin in any of my reference books, other than suggesting the analogy with firing a gun. However, one day, I was sent the following which appeared in the Clevedon, Somerset, Civic Society Newsletter for Summer 1996:\n"We discovered recently that the word 'fired', meaning discharged from a job originated on Mendip. It comes from Item 6 of the Laws of Mendip Miners. \n"If any man... do pick or steale any lead or ore to the value of xiiid (=13 pence), the Lord or his Officer may arrest all his lead and Oare House or hearthes with his Grooves and Workes and keep them in forfeit... and shall take the person that hath soe affeended and bring him where his house or worke and all his tooles and instruments are... and put him into his house or worke and set fire in all together about him and banish him..." Fired indeed!
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Not mine, but a friend had a horrible boss who made her type out all the letters telling some other employee's they were being made redundant. At 5 minutes before home time he came into the office and said to her 'oh by the way, you need to add your name to that list bcz we're getting rid of you too'...
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because your boss said that they are! can we spell your fired! get the hint.
371107
It's the same as "blow your top" I believe. Basically, it means lose control/go crazy.
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1382, from O.Fr. fugitif, from L. fugitivus "fleeing" (but commonly used as a noun meaning "runaway"), from stem of fugere "run away, flee," from PIE base *bheug- "to flee" (cf. Gk. pheugein "to flee," Lith. bugstu "be frightened"). Replaced O.E. flyma. From 17c.-19c. Eng. had the useful adj. fugacious "likely to flee."
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Old english bar owners.  Figuring out evenings profits by measuring their "pints and quarts" sold vs. inventory left to insure there wasn't waste or thievery.\n\nBTW - "whet your whistle" came from the same time period where beer mugs used to literally have a whistle on them.  Patrons would blow them when they wanted the bar wench to refill their steins with more beer!  :)  (And now you know the REST of the story)....
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they get fired by makeing multiple minor mistakes, one major mistake, or even not showing upat all. if you break any rule of the workplace.
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It comes from I think the movie "American pie" if I remember correctly. 'Stiffler' uses it. It means Mother I'd like to f*ck.
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If you mean $#!+-canned, it can mean fired from a job (as Katy_S said) or thrown away, tossed into the garbage can, abandoned.
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'RESIGNING' IS POLITE TALK FOR "YOU'RE FIRED!".
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Grammatically, nothing, but it does imply that the boss was the one who was unable to type the letter (and therefore fired you).
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I did. My boss came in one day and asked why I always looked like I was in a bad mood(he said it with an attitude) so I said: You'd be in a bad mood too if you worked for an As*hole like you. He looked at me, shocked and then said , you know I should fire you for that...I replied: Fire me then.....We stood there glaring at each other for a moment then he said....go back to work.. and that was the end of it. I guess you have to know how far you can push the envelope with your boss.
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I believe it's called the Sarbanns-Oxley act and the Whistleblower's Protection act.\n\nBasically, if you cannot be fired, your anonimity is guaranteed, and you cannot be demoted for reporting unethical or illegal conduct by the company or any individual within the company.
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sounds like you might be dumb enough to get fired
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I think it was coined by Martin Lawrence, the same man who gave us "You go, Girl!"\n\nCave\n\np.s.---Just found this:\n\n"In the case of "don't go there," the earliest citation for the phrase in print in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from an interview with comedian Martin Lawrence in Entertainment Weekly back in February 1994. At the time the star of the highly-rated Fox sitcom "Martin," Lawrence took the opportunity to complain, oddly enough, that his material was being stolen by other Fox shows: \n\n"Something ain't right," Lawrence says, removing his sunglasses. ... "We started using the expressions 'You go, girl!' and 'Don't go there!' and no one in television was doing that. No one. Now a lot of Fox shows are using the same stuff and the same premises."
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Because when you were fired in the ancient days you were given a sack of your wages due...hence you've been sacked.
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Yes... George W. Bush, you're fired!