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3 Φεβ 2010 · The term you’re fired originated with Henry Ford who would send sales reps deliberately out of the city and then have the laborers working at his building haul all of their belongings including their desk to the back loading dock and set on fire.
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According to the OED, this sense of "fire" goes back at least as far as 1885. It doesn't commit itself on the precise origin of the metaphor; but the earliest examples it cites indicate a meaning of "eject with great rapidity", which suggests derivation from the act of firing a weapon:
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