Brown Paper Envelope.

[Guest111]

My first was on a YTS at 15 and I think it was about £13.50 a week,when I turned 16 I got a job in a steel works,the boss was great I was learning to be a spark but also doing other bits around the factory and he paid me about £150 a week.

 

[driverman]

Where i work ( not been here long) they still do it that way re brown pay packets. Slightly of subject though, can you remember the brown pay packets whereby when handed to you, you could count how much in the pay packet before you actually open it? You could see the notes in one corner. Well if you were clever enough, with the use of a Biro-pen top, you could wrap a note around the clip part of the pen. By clipping the clip onto a note and carefully rotate the pen the note would coil round the pen. Therefore less money in your pay packet and no seals broken! Not that you guys have ever seen seals broken before!

 

[Guest77]

Does anyone remember in days gone by Friday afternoons at work where someone would come round and give you a brown paper envelope with cash in it?
I got my first one in 1974 and it had just over £3.00 in it. Mum took £1.75 for my keep and I kept the rest.

When did you first get yours and can you remember how much was in it?

Yes I had £23.50 in mine, that was the 1st year apprentice rate at the time, I had to give my mum a fiver and I saved a fiver lol, happy carefree days.

 

[Adam W]

I worked in pubs for about 5 years and was always paid in a brown envelope, apart from one (the worst one) which was a managed house, where they paid me via BACS, which seemed new and exciting.

 

[rapparee]

My first weeks wages was £120 for six days work and it was in a white envelope. It isn't exactly hovis advert is it?

 

[Robotstar5]

you could count how much in the pay packet before you actually open it? You could see the notes in one corner. Well if you were clever enough, with the use of a Biro-pen top, you could wrap a note around the clip part of the pen. By clipping the clip onto a note and carefully rotate the pen the note would coil round the pen.

No chance where I worked, they put a staple through the packet/notes to prevent that sort of thing.