Poll of the Day > Paper paychecks for those of us who work

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Nope like most people now my pay goes to my account via direct deposit. They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

The only people who get paper checks nowadays are typically people who don't have bank accounts.

They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

As someone who works in payroll, that would NEVER happen. The shit storm would be so catastrophic that it would likely destroy their entire business.

BUMPED2002 posted...

They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

Do you think that doesn't apply to paper cheques? Stopping payment on a cheque that's been given out is considerably easier than clawing back a direct deposit that's already gone out, and withholding a paper cheque is even easier than turning off DD (since you just don't give it to the employee, as opposed to having to take action to stop it).

I had to operate a check roller for a bit at my last job and now I understand why some guys are propelled to stick their junk where it don't belong.
Shit was like call of the void every time.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Nope like most people now my pay goes to my account via direct deposit. They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

No they can't. That would be illegal.

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https://fortune.com/2017/03/15/paycheck-laws-employee-jobs-career-finance/

"An employer cannot withhold any payment and employees cant be forced to kick back any portion of their wages. "

That company probably thought their employees were too stupid to lawyer up.

It's worth noting that that's not withholding payment so much as it's just clawing it back to reissue later. Everyone eventually got paid, which is very different from outright saying "I've decided not to pay you after all" even if the delay did have consequences for employees. Even if it's illegal to withhold payment, companies can also often get away with being very, very delinquent in paying their employees if they have enough excuses and/or lawyer up well enough.

adjl posted...

It's worth noting that that's not withholding payment so much as it's just clawing it back to reissue later. Everyone eventually got paid, which is very different from outright saying "I've decided not to pay you after all" even if the delay did have consequences for employees.

Then I would point to the sentence previous where it says that you are required to be payed "on the regular payday for the pay period during which they worked those hours."

I mean yea, lawyers might argue semantics, but it is still grounds to sue them.

suing them would go nowhere since they didn't actually do anything illegal

presumably, given the scope of what we know from this topic, it does not appear they did anything illegal

My employer is too lazy to offer direct deposit.

speedpunk posted...

My employer is too lazy to offer direct deposit.

Then they're also idiots. Direct deposit is less overhead for payroll.

kozlo100 posted...

Then they're also idiots. Direct deposit is less overhead for payroll.

Most companies would rather die than hand out paper cheques. Last place I worked wouldn't even do them for our seasonal workers who only worked 2 or 3 pay periods. Company wanted them all on Pay cards. They sent us blank ones, you handed them out to new employees who registered them online and that's how they got paid. Most people didn't want them because the service charges sucked.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Nope like most people now my pay goes to my account via direct deposit. They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

Uh... how is this supposed to be any different than a check? They could literally just not print the check by that logic.

No but the option exists if i wanted it. Just no reason to opt for it.

Yes because I like being that one person in the company that's a burden on payroll.

I still get paper checks.

unfortunately I work for a local buisness thats stuck in the stone age so I still get paper

Direct deposit. Paper ended in 2012 or 2013

BUMPED2002 posted...

Nope like most people now my pay goes to my account via direct deposit. They're controlling the money now LOL Push a button and they can immediately stop payment if they choose to.

...you can literally cancel a check the same way.

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Zang accusing anybody of being wrong is low-key hilarious.

Zangulus posted...

Aww did someone let you out of your cage you felt the need to simp for the one that goes out of his way to be wrong for responses? Yes you did.

Shot I forgot that I'm also Dikitain.

I've benn getting my paychecks deposited directly into my checking account since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

GGuirao13 posted...

I've benn getting my paychecks deposited directly into my checking account since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

Same. Except by COVID-19 pandemic, I mean 2008.