Where did the phrase "getting fired" (as in terminated from your job) orginate ?

A long, long time ago, when people lived in small communities, there was sometimes a problem of someone who didn't work really hard, or was otherwise of little value for that community. Since it was hard for the other people to tell such a person "you're useless, go away", they had an other solution for that. They simply put that person's dwelling on fire, so he had to leave to find a new home.

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Hi! I tried your post, but got that darn page that says "this page can't bee seen" or something like that! Darn it! I was wanting to see what that was!
I guess the page gobbler gobbled it away!
Wow! I just went back and clicked on it and the page gobbler must have returned your post! Cool site! Thanks for sharing it!