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The end of cash?

There are two office collections doing the rounds at the moment. They will be cash only. No other way is practical.
Yeah they can be a pain as i have to get a tenner out the cashpoint and change it into coins just so i can give 2 quid to doris from accounts leaving do :mad:

That said we've done "cash less" collections right here on urban a few times now so it can be done that way.
 
Yeah they can be a pain as i have to get a tenner out the cashpoint and change it into coins just so i can give 2 quid to doris from accounts leaving do :mad:

That said we've done "cash less" collections right here on urban a few times now so it can be done that way.
Or you can just not give anything and say "Sorry, not in my budget this month." Office collections aren't mandatory and are actually a form of mild harassment! Why can't the boss or whoever's organising it just send round an email and say "See me if you wish to donate" rather than walking round putting pressure on each individual person.
 
Or you can just not give anything and say "Sorry, not in my budget this month." Office collections aren't mandatory and are actually a form of mild harassment! Why can't the boss or whoever's organising it just send round an email and say "See me if you wish to donate" rather than walking round putting pressure on each individual person.
We are shift workers and often don't see the boss from one month to the next, not that any of the senior people have ever organised anything like this ever.
Normally someone goes and gets a card; sign it and drop some cash in if you want. The last two were started and "closed" just before pay day!
 
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Is it pedantic to point out that a great many people don't have 'savings that I will rely on in later life'.?
hence the reason for auto-enrolment into pensiosn so people have ot deliberately choose NOT to have any additional pension above the state pension is they are working ...
 
I've noticed a lot of car parks now say, 'pay with app X, no convenience charge!' which sounds like there's no extra charge relative to paying with cash. What it actually means is that the extra charge is called something else besides a 'convenience charge'.

There must be lots of places where paying with cash for parking isn't even an option any more, as it saves operators maintaining machines, collecting cash from them. Meanwhile a bunch of apps are getting paid a shit ton of 30p fees to do really not much of anything at all. I don't even use my car that much and I still somehow need four different parking apps.
 
We are shift workers and often don't see the boss from one month to the next, not that any of the senior people have ever organised anything like this ever.
Normally someone goes and gets a card; sign it and drop some cash in if you want. The last two were started and "closed" just before pay day!
is that Doris from accounts?
 
Some interesting comments in this beeb piece.
Notably the small business owner, who says that her bank takes a cut of each and every card transaction instead of the one fee for paying in cash each week that they would prefer.
Which is one of the reasons why I will always offer cash at a small business.


This coming weekend will include a day at a steam rally, which will be in a field [as they always are] so I'll see how many stalls will take cash.
Some of the rally organisers {especially after covid} have been able to use cash-less terminals for admission - or get you to book online, with a discounted cost.
 
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