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> "Got fired" may be a tad ambiguous, but being told "stop working on that other thing or leave" is not too far off.

It's very different.

When employees begin working at my company, they're told a list of things they're not allowed to do. And, they're told if they do these things, they will be shown the door.

By your definition of "not too far off", we're basically firing people on day one. Absurd.