Related Clues:

• Gave pink slips to
• Let go from the job
• Fired, informally
• Split, as logs
• Laid off, as workers
• Cut from the payroll
• Abruptly dismissed
• Cut from the staff
• Gave a pink slip
• Cut down, as a tree
• Discharged, slangily
• Gave the heave-ho
• In a split way
• Abruptly purged from the payroll
• Laid off, less politely