Getting paid salary by cheque

ldy4mxonucwsq6

Sleeper12 wrote: »

It's up to you to ask questions. How am I to be paid? How often am I to be paid? What day am I to be paid?

How often and what day aren't really important, not something I'd ask at either interview or job offer stage.

How I'll be paid though, it's honestly not something I would think needed to be asked, as I said never been paid by cheque in my life.

I suppose when some employers are still using a rarely used, almost obselete, written method of payment that's hundreds of years old then maybe I should remember to ask in future.

Sleeper12

Armando Plain Meatloaf wrote: »

How often and what day aren't really important, not something I'd ask at either interview or job offer stage.

How I'll be paid though, it's honestly not something I would think needed to be asked, as I said never been paid by cheque in my life.

I suppose when some employers are still using a rarely used, almost obselete, written method of payment that's hundreds of years old then maybe I should remember to ask in future.

I've had a guy ask me what bank I am with at an interview. He was figuring out how quickly he'd get his wages by ET if he got the job.



As for cheques I see them almost daily. Some sizable letting agents & maintenance companies pay me by cheque rather than ET. I have been accepting cards but think I'll get rid of card machine due to the cost. My daughter is a childminder. One of the creches she worked for paid by cheque & another by cash. Quite a lot of Creches pay in cash with old style brown envelope pay packet

Patrick2010

Sleeper12 wrote: »

It's up to you to ask questions. How am I to be paid? How often am I to be paid? What day am I to be paid?

I've been working for nearly 40 years and would have assumed payment by cheque disappeared years ago. Would never even occur to me to ask a prospective employer how they pay.

meeeeh

I certainly wouldn't ask how they pay and I think most people wouldn't. To be honest I would find it strange if a candidate asked me how we paid and nobody ever did. An odd time I would have to pay with chq because new employees wouldn't supply their account details in time.

That being said I avoid going to the bank on Friday to lodge customer cheques, there will be always someone whit six different debit cards and employee cheques that need to be lodged.

ldy4mxonucwsq6

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I've had a guy ask me what bank I am with at an interview. He was figuring out how quickly he'd get his wages by ET if he got the job.

I'm guessing he didn't get the job and that you remember it because its an unusual thing to come up at interview?

Sleeper12

Armando Plain Meatloaf wrote: »

I'm guessing he didn't get the job and that you remember it because its an unusual thing to come up at interview?

He became head of a security in the security company I had. He eventually bought the company from me.

AlmightyCushion

Sleeper12 wrote: »

He became head of a security in the security company I had. He eventually bought the company from me.

Did you ask him what bank his was going to use to pay you through? Or maybe he paid by cheque. :pac:

ldy4mxonucwsq6

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Did you ask him what bank his was going to use to pay you through? Or maybe he paid by cheque. :pac:

Suitcases of cash :cool:

Strumms

You want efficient employees ? Then you treat them with respect and pay them on time. If payday is the 12th of every month, that morning before they get out of bed that money is available and in their account... get known for treating your staff well, payment on time is the the first thing. You expect them to work hard, be flexible and put the company first, that works the other way too, although the... ‘tough, you should feel lucky to have a job’ merchants I’m sure see a cheque on payday is reasonable behavior, it isn’t.

ldy4mxonucwsq6

Just a quick update, getting paid by cheque is actually proving to be a right pain in the h*le.

I can't make it to the bank during opening hours (because I'm in work and my bank doesn't have a branch near the workplace) so I am relying on the outside lodgement machines.

Went to two separate machines this weekend and both are out of action! This is the second time it's happened in as many weeks.

So I will have to try again tomorrow, that will be a third trip this week just to get my cheque lodged.

If I have to do this every month I think I'll be changing jobs or banks or both!

Strumms

I’d certainly consider giving them the elbow, shower of knuckle draggers... least they could do is give a 90 minute lunch on payday to enable you to go about accessing the pay that you’ve worked hard for.