Who remembers when one was paid with cash in an envelope?

[Bretrick]

For years we would line up on a Friday afternoon, the paymaster with all the cash beside him, gave him my name and employee number, he would count out the cash and seal it in a yellow envelope.
Not sure when that stopped.
I was still getting paid with cash late 80's I think.
I certainly can not remember the first direct deposit of my pay

 

[funsearcher!]

Never-was always a check and then direct deposit---never was it ever cash.

 

[hollydolly]

Me...it was in a little brown wage packet ( envelope)... and I had to hand it over to my father on pay day unopened...

 

[Murrmurr]

Christmas bonuses were always in cash. Pretty sure that was so you didn't have to wait for a check to clear before you could go get your Christmas shopping all finished up.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Pay envelopes had been phased out by the time I started working in 1974.

At one time the railroad servicing my area had a special payroll train that brought the envelopes to the men.

 

[Don M.]

I think the Only time I was paid by cash was when I was a teen ager, and working part-time at a local gas station in the late 1950's.

 

[terry123]

Only time I was paid in cash was working as a teenager baby sitting. Then checks and then direct deposit.

 

[Capt Lightning]

The only time I was paid in cash was as a student doing temporary jobs in summer and Christmas. All my 'real' jobs paid straight into my bank account. I don't recall ever receiving a pay cheque.

 

[hollydolly]

The only time I was paid in cash was as a student doing temporary jobs in summer and Christmas. All my 'real' jobs paid straight into my bank account. I don't recall ever receiving a pay cheque.

my goodness I can't believe I was the only one that got paid in cash in a paypacket. Not just one job either.. several multi-nationals.. and not in the dark ages.. in the 70's....

 

[Mizmo]

Way back in days of old I worked in an office and my job was do the payroll for the factory workers and make up cash pay packets .
Two of us were on the job. She would check my work and I would check hers.
Oh and we had no computers in those days..not even a calculating machine !.
All done with brain power and finger counting

 

[Bretrick]

my goodness I can't believe I was the only one that got paid in cash in a paypacket. Not just one job either.. several multi-nationals.. and not in the dark ages.. in the 70's....

Seems strange to me as well. I wonder how many people were never paid in cash.
It is predicted that Australia will be a cashless society in about 3 years.
We already have businesses that do not accept cash.

 

[hollydolly]

Seems strange to me as well. I wonder how many people were never paid in cash.
It is predicted that Australia will be a cashless society in about 3 years.
We already have businesses that do not accept cash.

yes we're heading very fast towards the slippery slope of a cashless society as well.....many places don't accept cash now at all...
Once the govt has control of your money they have control of your life...,so although I pay for stuff using a card often..I try as much as possible when buying less expensive things, in local shops .. and particularly in cafes and restaurants to pay with cash

 

[Bretrick]

yes we're heading very fast towards the slippery slope of a cashless society as well.....many places don't accept cash now at all...
Once the govt has control of your money they have control of your life...,so although I pay for stuff using a card often..I try as much as possible when buying less expensive things, in local shops .. and particularly in cafes and restaurants to pay with cash

I always like to have a wad of cash in my wallet.
We see so often that technology breaks down. What happens when the next solar flare fries all the satellites and no one has access to their money?

 

[Marie5656]

I remember being paid in cash...when I worked at a K Mart in early 90s

 

[Nathan]

When I was in the Army the company XO(a 1st Lt.) acted as the paymaster, paid us in cash.

Bad idea: Never give a GI a bunch of cash when payday is once a month!

 

[horseless carriage]

Just like the thread about life before technology, I have never embraced the advances in electronic payment or receiving payment. In the early years of work I was paid in cash, that went over to bank transfer by the early seventies.

Going back to that thread about life before technology, I rejoined the workforce after a short retirement. Nowadays the company doesn't issue their staff with a payment advice slip, you get it from the wages department via e-mail. I didn't have e-mail, so the wages department had to send my advice slip to the general manager, he then printed off a hard copy and gave it to me in an envelope.

Last Christmas I was arm twisted into getting an e-mail, now my payment advice arrives by e-mail, problem is, it's a jumble of computer gibberish. I'm supposed to click on it, activate a drop down menu, then click on open, (told you it was gibberish,) I haven't said anything at work, but I have no idea, it's all gobble-de-gook.

Fortunately, I can go to the ATM machine, print of a mini statement and read the amount paid in. It's always correct. That e-mail address did have one benefit though, it allowed me to join S/F.