I had a similar experience when I moved out to Australia (from the Netherlands). At one place I worked for a while I was paid with a check! Can you believe it. They'd give me an envelope that opened on the side and it had a piece of paper in it that "I" had to bring to the bank. I think my head almost exploded. Mostly because I wasn't expecting it and a little because of the retarded way of paying people. This was in 2007 and I was working for a digital ad agency, not on a construction side or something. Fascinating. I think my mother was the last person in the Netherlands to use a check. It must have been 1976 or something. :)
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I had a similar experience when I moved out to Australia (from the Netherlands). At one place I worked for a while I was paid with a check! Can you believe it. They'd give me an envelope that opened on the side and it had a piece of paper in it that "I" had to bring to the bank. I think my head almost exploded. Mostly because I wasn't expecting it and a little because of the retarded way of paying people. This was in 2007 and I was working for a digital ad agency, not on a construction side or something. Fascinating. I think my mother was the last person in the Netherlands to use a check. It must have been 1976 or something. :)