Talk:pink slip

More could be presumably said about the origin. The Calif. reg. slip

(U.S.) the title for an automobile (source is most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper, as opposed to most other states where the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate)

rings true bcz of W:Pink slips being played in a movie that seemed like it was set in Calif. (I'd say a James Dean one, but i could easily just be thinking of the one where they play W:Chicken (game) (jumping out closest to the cliff edge) to fatal effect.)
I assume that a firing pink slip (supposed to be enclosed in your pay envelope) was one page of a multi-part discharge form, with say yellow copy to finance department, green to personnel, pink to the victim. The pink slip may have been a state's requirement for filing for unemployment compensation, or it may have been part of a standard form originated by one business-forms printing company (or recommended by an accounting school) and widely adopted.
--User:Jerzy·t 07:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)