Did you ever work for a very large corporation, and you were paid in cash in a small brown envelope......???

[Sourdough]

No check to be cashed at a bank.

 

[Tirediron]

Maybe, repos kind of go like that

 

[Caribou]

Only when I worked, “under the table."

 

[Canon29]

Usually the big guys do everything above board nowadays. Sometimes things get a little dicey with travel reimbursements, vouchers, perdiems etc. I've been handed cash for travel expenses which I've been told was written in as "specialty" expenses (and not to inquire furthur) to remove obstacles for me to go work in other locations and solve problems- especially when outsourcing my help was not budgeted/approved by the egg heads. The envelopes were white though

I've only met one other guy from my company who was good enougn to merit that kind of special treatment. Mainly cause it's a career risk for whichever facility manager cause those funds arent properly taxed when it's handed to me as cash.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

In 45 years I only worked for four companies.
Two were large national corporations. The only time anything like that ever happened was I was one of a crew sent to another state to fix a logistical mess at one of the warehouses. Each man was given a check each week there for per diem in addition to regular hourly pay and no receipts were needed to be turned in.

I went to the grocery store, bought bread and canned goods, ate in the hotel room that they paid for and pocketed the difference.
That’s as close as I ever got.

 

[Sourdough]

Most of you are so young.

This was in the 50's 60's how the big companies paid employees. We worked six days a week, generally off on Sunday (but not always, some machines had to run 24 hours a day for weeks or months). There were two shifts, each shift worked 12 hours, but one shift got paid for 12.5 hours, the other shift got paid for 13 hours. I started my apprenticeship, getting $2.08 an hour. At the end of the apprenticeship, four years (8,000 hours) I got my papers, and scale was $3.15 per hour journeyman's wages. Pay was cash down to the nickel, dime, and pennies. You had to sign, as they handed you your pay envelope. Everyone executives, engineers, the secretaries, everyone got paid in cash.

 

[d_marsh]

I am just old enough to remember getting paychecks, but most of my life has been direct deposit and a email explaining the breakdown of hours, taxes, soc sec, etc. I have done some PSD work where I was handed a fat stack of cash with no discussion of explanation. Decided it was off the books money and put it in the safe.

 

[Tirediron]

Damn I was hoping this was about Opsec work, 'cause , well repossession work often pays cash.

 

[LadyLocust]

Nope. Haven’t been paid cash since HS. I have paid tons of taxes.

 

[joel]

No, the only time I got cash was working for small business.
First Job in 1968 was a dollar a day to pick up pine cone ahead of the lawnmower.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I worked in Afghanistan back in 07-08 as a senior manager providing "training" to the local Afghans and military support. Our payroll was in cash. Once a week I'd meet another vehicle out in the desert, always at a different location. I'd park about 200 yards away from this other vehicle, flash my lights 4 times, he'd flash his lights 3 times. Then we'd pull along side each other and he'd hand me a sack of cash. I'd count it then we'd both leave in different directions. The whole exchange took less than 5 mins. Obviously the locals were paid in cash, but I took some of my pay in cash too. All tax free.