pink-slipped

They were pink-slipped within minutes of the word getting out.

The investment banker, who was recently pink-slipped, said she had only minutes to ponder the content.

All of the syndicated shows and airstaff were already pink-slipped a day before the flip.

"Now they're to the point of getting pink-slipped."

Neither was pink-slipped for his strategic decisions.

Vitale, a little-used featured player who also served as a staff writer, is also pink-slipped at mid-season.

It isn't anything the old Soviet Biopreparat germ chefs might've auctioned off when they got pink-slipped after the breakup.

On his cryptic "I was worried I was going to get pink-slipped" remark:

KPTY would be the biggest causality of this move as the entire air staff was pink-slipped and the station went jockless.

The book's publisher is marketing the novel as a roman à clef - a kind of "Devil Wears Prada" for pink-slipped editors.

The Game was pink-slipped by 50 Cent three days before the release of 50 Cent's album "The Massacre" last Thursday.

The number of those actually pink-slipped, like well-publicized dot-com workers, may be small; but a perception of coming hardships is widespread, and it is causing people to retrench.

(Even the production chief at Disney, which produced the summer's biggest smash, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," was pink-slipped on Monday.)

The departure memo has become enough of an institution at certain companies that after being pink-slipped, composing the memo - rather than impending joblessness - can rank as the most pressing concern.

The stories I hear are pretty much the same, with a few variations to allow for the pink-slipped brother who committed suicide, or the mother who lost her life savings when the pension fund went belly-up.

Klaus Esser may be losing the title of chief executive and the independence of his company, Mannesmann A.G, but his paycheck won't be like that of some pink-slipped employee.

However, as competition increased from Fox News, and CNN veterans such as Natalie Allen and Lou Waters were pink-slipped in favor of Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown, Harris felt less comfortable.

This move comes on February 27, just two days after parent owner Univision announced that they were eliminating 6% of their employees at their properties; the stations' airstaff, with the exception of the PD, would be among those being pink-slipped.

While this change caused the additional layoffs bringing the total of pink-slipped Midwest pilots to nearly 300 and total employee cuts for the year to 1,850, Midwest indicated that it hoped to begin operating these new planes itself with Midwest crews in 8-12 months form that time.