Most people today get paid through the bank and often month by month but some still get weekly wages in cash. I grew up in a working class community where most people would get their pay in cash every Thursday. This is why it was on a Thursday evening or a Friday everybody would be busy at the shops or paying bills with the money they had earned over the previous week. My dad would often bring us chocolate because he had been paid. Wages were what people were paid for their week's work. If you didn't work you would not get paid.
I remember working ina factory one summer. On Thursdays the wages trolley would come round with the pay packets. You were given a brown envelope with holes in so that you could see exactly how much was in there before you opened it, in case of any discrepancy.
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