pink-slip
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After several pink-slip owners during and after World War II, Palmdale began to be coveted by the city of L.A. in the early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
With the end of the 2018 slate for non-playoff teams comes the inevitable pink-slip fest known infamously as "Black Monday," when most teams looking to make a leadership change fire their head coach.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
It was Friday afternoon, the optimal pink-slip window.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
The anonymous drip-drip-drip of negative comments will take its toll eventually, said Oregon RNC member Solomon Yue, who is co-sponsoring Mr. Currier’s resolution calling on Mr. Priebus to pink-slip renegade employees.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
Finally, there’s the pink-slip table in the back.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2014
He first appears dressed as Santa Claus, who has come to deliver a hand towel or a pink slip to his employees, depending on whether he deems them naughty or nice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The trek to the boss’s office, the tense stares across the desk, the awkward mix of praise and criticism—and the potential for a promotion or a pink slip when it is all over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
It looks like I’ll be commuting more—but for how long before I, too, get a pink slip without warning or reason?
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2025
“No Highs” is an attempt to give himself a playlist pink slip.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
So did at least 60 of his colleagues who had also just been pink-slipped.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
Which can only mean they might be NHL Seattle coaching candidates a year from now once pink-slipped by their respective squads.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
He has been super-annuated, pink-slipped, rendered redundant, P45-ed, by the real life character Homer Jackson and a fictional character who will appear in the third volume.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2019
For those who question whether Ned Colletti should be pink-slipped immediately, three words provide the answer:
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2014
Of course, layoffs aren’t new at Cisco, which pink-slipped 6500 people in 2011.
From Forbes ● Aug. 15, 2013
It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores and pink-slipping its 37,000 employees.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of those alternatives vanished last week as Ross Perot shut down his campaign with all the brutality of a plant manager pink-slipping loyal workers at Christmas.
From Time Magazine Archive
