Is the idiomatic phrase "Someone got promoted" a secret language meaning "Someone was fired" ?

When I was reading the page of which photo I I posted here too, I saw a sentence that said "I heard you got promoted", which is translated "クビになったって聞いたよ".
This Japanese means that I heard you were fired.

Is it true that to get promoted also means to be fired ?[Image]

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Is the idiomatic phrase "Someone got promoted" a secret language meaning "Someone was fired" ?

When I was reading the page of which photo I I posted here too, I saw a sentence that said "I heard you got promoted", which is translated "クビになったって聞いたよ". 
This Japanese means that I heard you were fired.

Is it true that to get promoted also means to be fired ?[Image]

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I don't understand why the book has 'promoted' translated to 'fired' in English. Someone please tell me if there is a dialect of English where this makes sense 😅

日本語で"to be fired"と"to be promoted"とはどういう意味ですか？

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Normally, promoted is never fired so there must be an error in translation.
However you can joke around by saying “Did you get promoted to unemployment?”

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I've never heard promoted to mean getting fired, but maybe it could be used ironically to mean that? I agree with Jade that it means to move up, to go into a better professional position.

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'to get promoted' means to move up in the workplace. It means to get a better job within the same company that you already work for. 'to get a promotion' is is the same.

Example:
I was working as a server at a restaurant but I got promoted to manager!

Today my girlfriend got a promotion to head designer!

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