Should it not be BLUE SLIP instead of PINK?!

HI mimpi! You know, I always wondered about that myself! That is a very good point! I don't know why they always use the pink slip thing! I agree with you that pinks surely is a happier color and certainly not appropriate for a firing or layoff! But, I love the color blue and although I do I agree that it certainly would make more sense to use that color than pink! I wonder who thought of the color pink and when it came about? That really is such an interesting question!

I think it should be a RED slip! Since RED is a depressing color. That is just my opinion. Red I think can cause panick. Pink and Blue are for newborns. No matter waht color the slip I feel bad for anyone who gets one.

Maybe they are trying to be nice and cordial by giving it in pink. Yes t too have thought that the term seems inapropraite. But why are u suggesting Blue ? is it something to do with the mood ? Red: may imply don't come back Green: keep going Orange:- Get ready to go Black:- So that you may mourn over it Maybe they are using this term as compared to termination, fired, sacked, let off, relieved... Actually blue sounds better..

Over the years people have offered plenty of examples of companies that supposedly used pink slips to fire their employees, but none that has ever been verified. The most common explanation concerns the Ford Motor Company as Henry Ford and his business are commonly viewed as the prototype that established the modern corporate employer-employee business relationship The "pink slip" has come a long way from when Henry Ford dreamed up a way to evaluate his assembly line employees. Each worker had a cubbyhole where at the end of the workday, a manager would place a piece of colored paper. A white piece of paper meant their work was acceptable, a pink one meant the boot.

i think,they might be being diplomatic,trying to give bad news in a pink slip(good)or they might be expecting of us to show our pink tongues. belated happy new year.

Hi Mou i never knew that its called "giving pink slip" when u r terminating some one i think the best color describe it must be BLACK as its mourning thing its going to bring darkness not only in front of ons eyes but on his/her future tooo. Well, i dont think companies THINK anything when they lay off any one Not a Good slip to have regardless of any color byee

bala beat me to one explanation for it! lol. I agree with nanajanet that they should be red as this is definitely the color we all see if we get one!

We have an expression here in the US about workers "going postal" and when I think of the color pink in connection with layoff slips, I sort of imagine that the color is supposed to be soothing, but in reality they probably just used it to make those slips stand out. Cute that you associate the color pink with a party. Then, too, they could have done it just to add to the humiliation, since at one time most of the outside of the home workers were men.

I think that it should be a red slip as I would be angry!!!

Hi mim, Please don't tell me that you are one of the latest to lose your job!! When you think about it, to me it really doesn't matter what color you call it, for that matter, it should be black. My hubby has been laid off and without a job for a year and a half now. If he doesn't get a job soon, who knows what will happen. I pray and hope for the best. leenie

Blue is miss leading imo because blue usually means positive or good. Getting laid off is neither of those things.