Talk:Pink slip (employment)

Pink Slip

In the 1960's, Detroit Gear and Axle, part of the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Corporation, located at 1840 Holbrook Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, handed out "Notices of Employment Discontinuance" on slips of pink paper.John Paul Parks (talk) 04:47, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

C4

Might want to remove the C4 link, as it links to a page with no information as to what a C4 is. Could just type out C4 letter paper or something along those lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob7k (talk • contribs) 07:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is included in 'other' on the disambig page, so probably okay to leave in as a link in case anyone ever turns it into a real article at least there is a link from here if that happens. --81.150.229.68 (talk) 15:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Slip Party

The german Wikipedia Admins are wondering why this term is not named here. They say this may not exist. Any hints? Best regards --Schreibmalwieder (talk) 13:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Google search on "pink slip" gets surprisingly many "Pink Slip Party" hits -- surprising, bcz tho i think the meaning is obvious if you know "Pink Slip", i don't ever recall hearing it. (But are such parties a notable phenom?
--Jerzy•t 19:32, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Multi-part forms

I refer to a precursor of the current point-of-sale terminals with two-part NCR paper, that let the customer sign and fill in the tip on the top (white) copy for the credit-card company, and make a carbon copy of sig and tip on second (yellow) copy for the customer to keep, with the color difference preventing the server or cashier from giving away the wrong copy by making the color difference obvious.
I'm surprised that nothing is said to knock down the obvious assumption: a multi-part business form, with one page for the originator, one (pink?) for the employee, and one at least for the personnel or payroll department or both, probably with check-boxes besides termination, and two or more sheets of carbon paper between sheets of paper. I didn't doubt this theory until i saw the 1900s as earliest known use, but it made me check, and carbon paper had been in use 100 years, and a standard business tool for 50.
This sounds like inadequate research: either confirmation is out there waiting to be found -- or no confirmation exists, in which case there still should be sources that mention not just lack of "pink paper" in the context of termination (as the accompanying article does), but of a lack of pink pages in multi-part personnel-action forms.
--Jerzy•t 19:32, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A link to red tape?

Is the link to 'Red Tape' under 'see also' simply for comedic effect, or does it help advance the article in some way? Thestarsprism (talk) 06:36, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]