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 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 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)