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Comment on Ever wonder how the term "pink slip" came about? This is how you were fired. A pink slip on your desk.

It was pink because it was part of a carbon copy form. You write on the top sheet of paper and then you get 3 copies of what you wrote, one for the employee and 2 for other records. Carbon copy paper was very popular before you could just print 3 copies of something.

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Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It may be 5 sheets, as this one is marked “5 To Worker”

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- jodanlime@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Good observation, I haven’t seen more than a 5 part form but it might be possible, I have seen 5 part carbon copies though.
  
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  - weirdboy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Mortgage forms have like a million parts
    
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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yup, that’s also why it’s so blurry; As the pressure moves through each sheet of paper, it gets more and more spread out. You could technically dial up the tension on your typewriter to make more copies, but they would still end up blurry as the paper spread out the force of the impact.
  
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