pink slip
noun
: a notice from an employer that a recipient's employment is being terminated
pink-slip
transitive verb
Examples of pink slip in a Sentence
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This forced many startups to close their doors—pushing thousands of employees out the door with a pink slip and stalling late-stage exit strategies.
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Haresh Bhungalia, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
These are difficult conversations, but, if done correctly, professionally and with tact, their employees will not be so surprised when they are handed a pink slip.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
In January, across two rounds of layoffs that hit its ad sales and hardware teams, Alphabet laid off over 1,000 employees after handing out 12,000 pink slips in 2022.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
Quartz’s Laura Bratton lists the organizations that have handed out pink slips since January.
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💌 Inbox hysteria.
—Susan Howson, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024
With a chance to lock up the NFC East, Dallas once again steamrolls Washington en route to a division title and significant home-field advantage in the playoffs, while Ron Rivera likely gets a pink slip the following day.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
The lead mule is River Cartwright, played by the habitually great Jack Lowden, the scion of MI5 royalty who got played in a training exercise that resulted in the theoretical deaths of thousands, and avoided the pink slip only because his granddad (Jonathan Pryce) is MI5 royalty.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
Five months ago, Meta Platforms Inc. finished handing out the last of more than 20,000 pink slips to employees, part of a year-long effort to rein in costs and become more efficient.
—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
The final curtain may not have completely descended on tech layoffs—Niantic, Discord, and Salesforce all handed out pink slips this month.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
Haresh Bhungalia, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
These are difficult conversations, but, if done correctly, professionally and with tact, their employees will not be so surprised when they are handed a pink slip.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
In January, across two rounds of layoffs that hit its ad sales and hardware teams, Alphabet laid off over 1,000 employees after handing out 12,000 pink slips in 2022.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
Quartz’s Laura Bratton lists the organizations that have handed out pink slips since January.
5 great stories from elsewhere
💌 Inbox hysteria.
—Susan Howson, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024
With a chance to lock up the NFC East, Dallas once again steamrolls Washington en route to a division title and significant home-field advantage in the playoffs, while Ron Rivera likely gets a pink slip the following day.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
The lead mule is River Cartwright, played by the habitually great Jack Lowden, the scion of MI5 royalty who got played in a training exercise that resulted in the theoretical deaths of thousands, and avoided the pink slip only because his granddad (Jonathan Pryce) is MI5 royalty.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
Five months ago, Meta Platforms Inc. finished handing out the last of more than 20,000 pink slips to employees, part of a year-long effort to rein in costs and become more efficient.
—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
The final curtain may not have completely descended on tech layoffs—Niantic, Discord, and Salesforce all handed out pink slips this month.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
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“Pink slip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pink%20slip. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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