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By: emily

Did you consider possible fraud as an issue? If grandma dies on Tuesday and her check comes on Wednesday, is it possible her family may report her as dying on Wednesday instead? This probably isn’t...

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By: DaveyNC

I live near Ft. Bragg, in North Carolina. It is common knowledge to avoid Fayetteville on military paydays. Other dangerous times are when the troops get home. A friend of mine in the Army told me that...

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By: Patrick

Funnily enough, there was a related term for this in the early days of the industrial revolution: “Blue Monday” was when workers, being paid at the end of each week, partied so hard with their...

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By: Alana

This is a HUGE problem in Japan. The missing centenarians. Cities look for the 100 year olds to congratulate them only to find they’ve been dead for years while family members raid their social...

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By: Jen

What if the patients are in coma? They probably don’t know that they get paid or not. Anyway, when a guy is about to die of an illness, will their family tell them “Hey! You just got paid today.” In...

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By: peter jones

Might be worth checking when the medical staff get paid, most nurses i nkow are right piss heads. 0  3

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By: Rodolfo Araújo

Many other things happen on the first day of the month – so there could be a myriad of causes. Many correlations, but perhaps no single cause. And having money means a lot of things to be considered,...

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By: Pdawg20

Did deaths drop before paychecks? Maybe prior to pay, with less disposable cash, people were less likely to engage in things they normally might do. And I suspect that after being paid you feel a...

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By: J S

This is nothing new. My grandparents saw this running a medium-sized farm in the 1920′s. Milk-check came once a month so they could pay the ‘hired men’. Then the workers would go off on binge-drinking...

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By: mike o'donnell

My friend, who owns a building company and pays cash, got fed up of high absenteeism on Mondays. So he changed pay day to Mondays from Fridays. His Monday absence levels mysteriously disappeared, and...

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