rsc wondered if anyone ever gives pink slips to fire people these days. In my career I "officially fired" a very small number of people and there were no pink slips involved.This reminds me the time that I had noticed we had some kind of disciplinary form in the supply room. I had a fish tank in my office and one day I got tired of the angel fish who kept eating other fish so I removed it from the tank and let it die. Then I filled out one of the discipline slips and pinned it with the dead fish to my bulletin board. Did everyone in the office behave better because of this example? No, it just confirmed their view that I was a bit weird.
They crucified thousands of criminals in Ancient Rome, but that didn't deter wrong behavior, either! :)
Edited at 2010-08-10 06:13 pm (UTC)
(I did NOT get a pink slip when I had my hair this colour)
We did used to have pink slip job hunting parties here in Seattle back when the dot coms were imploding hourly. I think they used pink cocktail napkins.
I had another incident about non-smell. On day when cleaning up some of my office I found a brown paper bag which contained what I called petrified bananas. They were at least a year old, had no smell and where quite nice. I pinned them up to my bulletin board. Years later after we moved out of the office I brought them home but during the renovation in 2001 I lost them. (Yes I tend to keep things for a very long time).