alt Hacker Newsit seems to agree haha:
> The sense of "sack, dismiss from employment" is recorded by 1877 (with out; 1879 alone) in American English.
> Research had found a firm called Thomas Austin Brick & Tile Makers, based at Clay Hills, Stoke-on-Trent in 1820
it seems to agree haha:
> The sense of "sack, dismiss from employment" is recorded by 1877 (with out; 1879 alone) in American English.
> Research had found a firm called Thomas Austin Brick & Tile Makers, based at Clay Hills, Stoke-on-Trent in 1820
Thomas Austin in 1820 "discharged" the employee. And Stoke-on-Trent is in Britain.