Stephen Sprunk schrieb:


In the US, it takes a couple pay cycles to get direct deposit set up,
though most white-collar workers do it immediately upon changing jobs.
It's not as common in service-industry or blue-collar jobs, where folks
may even be paid in cash each week or even each day; that appears to be
mainly a cultural thing, though the banks are trying their best to
change that by offering "free" accounts only to people with direct
deposit. Still, many folks resist that, for reasons I've never
understood myself.

They probably fear, that the administrative effort for some extra would
be too high for the employer.

In blue collar jobs paid weekly over the table, it is custom in many
companies, that some extra bills go over the table in case of some extra
effort. I don't think, that anybody pays taxes on it, and in fact, the
bookkeeping costs for this might get higher as the sums involved.

That would also be the time, to cash in the small sums, which you might
have spent buying other people's help during the week. On construction
sites, that happens more often than you might think.


Hans-Joachim


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