Are you old enough to have ever received or seen a 'pay packet' or 'pay envelope'?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Are you old enough to have ever received or seen a 'pay packet' or 'pay envelope'?

Posted: 1/30/2011 4:58:07 AM EDT

My Mom worked for the A&P as cashier when I was kid. I can remember early on when she would come home with cash money in a manilla "packet" on payday.

Any of you guys remember these?

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:00:01 AM EDT

[#1]

From when I was VERY young yes.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:00:33 AM EDT

[#2]

I received summer internship stipends (~1998) as checks, but everything else (even $6.50 an hour for working in the campus computer labs) has arrived by direct deposit.

Kharn

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:05:26 AM EDT

[#3]

I remember A&P. We used to drink the A&P Cola my Grandfather would only buy. Blackberry flavor!!

I miss that stuff and him.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:07:43 AM EDT

[#4]

Yes. Got my 80cents/hour every Friday.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:09:05 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

I remember A&P. We used to drink the A&P Cola my Grandfather would only buy. Blackberry flavor!!

I miss that stuff and him.

My Mom did pretty good at the old A&P. The butcher would put aside all the good bacon for the employees when it came in.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:10:11 AM EDT

[#6]

Last time I got a pay packet with a pay slip and cash in it would have been around 1990.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:15:55 AM EDT

[#7]

Well, YEA!!!! Hell, I'll be 70 in a month.. In the Navy, we got payed in cash each payday. Had to fill out a pay chit, stand in line in pay number order, hold your ID card in your left hand, pay chit in your right hand, step up to the pay table and hand the chit to the Disbursing Clerk. If you talked in the pay line you got tossed out and had to wait until next payday.

It was also a great time for the Master at Arms to check for hair cuts, shoe shines and other chicken shit crap.

Prior to the Navy I always got paid cash in an envelope. The first pay checks I got were computer cards that you could not "Fold Spindle or Mutilate" according to the information printed on them.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:19:44 AM EDT

[#8]

Yea, worked in a gas station in 1970 and that's how the guy paid us, cash in the envolope.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:22:01 AM EDT

[#9]

Yep.

I can also remember reporting for pay in the Army. We got paid in cash.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:25:31 AM EDT

[#10]

I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
Fuck you.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:28:39 AM EDT

[#11]

thats how I got paid at my 1st job 10 years ago, i was 15

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:29:34 AM EDT

[#12]

I've never had a payday that wasn't by direct deposit.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:34:55 AM EDT

[#13]

The only time I can remember getting paid cash was when I did farm work as a kid.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:38:33 AM EDT

[#14]

My first real job was in a gun store.
I got paid every two weeks in cash.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:45:07 AM EDT

[#15]

Yepper, got one weekly at my first job, Browns Grocery in Marietta Ga.

A small and very old school market where I bagged and restocked items, place had 2 checkouts and was known for their great butcher shop.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:51:53 AM EDT

[#16]

Yes, I was in the Army when you got paid once a month, in cash. You lined up by company in alphabetical order and had to have your ID card. One person at a time was allowed to approach the cash cage and their was an armed MP on each side.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:53:09 AM EDT

[#17]

No, but I remember the salary warrants that were printed on IBM punchcards. You took this piece of cardboard to your bank and deposited/cashed it.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:53:26 AM EDT

[#18]

I got paid in cash at the end of my shift as a dishwasher. $14.00 was good money.

Posted: 1/30/2011 5:55:24 AM EDT

[#19]

I'm 40....never been paid in cash for anything that was reportable income

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:00:22 AM EDT

[#20]

The only time I was paid in cash was when it was under the table.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:02:07 AM EDT

[#21]

My mom worked in payroll at a factory back in the early 70's. I remember hearing her talk about counting out the payroll and putting it in those envelopes. I also remember going with her to the grocery store on Saturdays and she would have an envelope like that along with everyone else. From 1981 to 2003, every payday for me (part time in school or fulltime) was a ceremony of the boss handing out an envelop of some sort with my paycheck or cash in it. Sometimes we'd gather up in a big crowd like hungry vultures waiting to be fed, sometimes the boss would go around individually and say stuff like "there's a little extra in there this week."

I have noticed that payday doesn't have the same thrill that it once had since I've been on direct deposit.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:04:16 AM EDT

[#22]

My dad was paid that way when I was a kid.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:10:21 AM EDT

[#23]

No cash for me, but I had plenty of years of checks before direct deposit became the norm.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:15:28 AM EDT

[#24]

Yes, carwash job as a kid. Maybe 1988 or 89 IIRC.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:15:30 AM EDT

[#25]

Yep, just like the little pay envelopes in the pic. The bookkeeper would write everything out including the tax withholding in the spaces provided. Pay was in cash. I don't think I got a check till the 70s. I started working in 1967 at age 13 at "real" jobs till school started then just part time till my junior year in HS then I worked full time and went to school untill graduation. Different times.

I also had a full time job (VA State Prison) where you were paid once a month till it changed in '75. Talk about learning to budget in a hurry.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:17:43 AM EDT

[#26]

worked at kmart during summers in 89-91 and they paid in cash.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:17:52 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
Fuck you.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.

I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old.
Fuck you.
I'm not that old.
I'm not that old

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:21:54 AM EDT

[#28]

Yep.............My first job pumping gas in 1972 was for $1.60 an hour and we got our pay in the same little brown envelope every week.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:23:54 AM EDT

[#29]

yep.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:28:39 AM EDT

[#30]

Vaguely remember them, but never got paid in one.

Posted: 1/30/2011 6:34:53 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

My first real job was in a gun store.

I got paid every two weeks in cash.

That must have been tough. Ever make it home with any left?

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:17:12 AM EDT

[#32]

It was on my very first Real World, Permanent Job. (Union Shop.) It was Before I went into the Army.

Every Friday afternoon a gal would come along and hand out our pay. One Friday came long and she wore a corsage made out of dollar bills. She was quitting and getting a new job elsewhere. The money was for Good Luck. A few months later she was back. I forget what she said. Apparently the "New" job wasn't all that great.

So she came back.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:20:48 AM EDT

[#33]

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:27:11 AM EDT

[#34]

I was direct deposit in the Army 1984-1987, I received cash payments from Kmart from Jan 87 to Feb 89. AA pays me direct deposit from Feb 89 to today.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:30:57 AM EDT

[#35]

I remember when the minimum wage was $1.25............does that count?

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:33:06 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

I remember when the minimum wage was $1.25............does that count?

3.85 when I started working

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:33:06 AM EDT

[#37]

I swear I had a client come in with those things in the past year, wish I could remember the employer. I've seen them but I think I've always been paid by check.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:33:12 AM EDT

[#38]

Seen one. Never got one.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:39:23 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
I remember when the minimum wage was $1.25............does that count?

I don't remember minimum wage being $1.25, but I do remember it being $1.35 (what they called Sub Minimum Wage) You got paid that if you were under 18 or some such requirement, (possibly part time, I really don't recall). The adult minimum wage was $1.65.

To answer the original question I think I have received one or two of those, but most of the time I was paid in cash, it was face to face counted out on the table and signed for.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:42:09 AM EDT

[#40]

I just got handed a wad of bills.

Now days it's very hard to even get a check. A large number of companies pay direct deposit only OR on a pay card which is just a pre paid debit card.

Posted: 1/30/2011 8:46:49 AM EDT

[#41]

Yep.

I got my first job at 12. Up until I was about 17 or 18 I always got an envelope with my money and a pay slip. After that it was always a check until direct deposit started up.