So you "get fired" - what does that really mean? And should you feel bad, or is it an opportunity to review where you really belong. Let's start with the word. Fired. The web has a variety of etymologies for the word fired being applied to losing ones job but the version I grew up with is that when a craftsman was very bad at his job (say... working on a Medieval cathedral) and he was kicked off the crew his tools would be thrown into the fire (so he [...]