It's Lies! All Lies! Those legendary business stories could be just that.
By Geoff Williams •
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Even if you plan to lay off employees, you're probably nothanding out real pink slips. No known company has ever handedanybody an actual pink slip.
Peter Liebhold, a curator at the Smithsonian's NationalMuseum of American History, has been searching for the origins ofthe term for over a decade. So far, he's had no luck. The termis used in a novel as early as 1915, but there's no historicalrecord of an actual pink dismissal form.
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