<prompt> Human: At our business, we are paid with traditional pay checks.Weve learned not to discuss the topic at work, but were all baffled by the response. Our manager is also kept in the dark. Both the owner and accountant blatantly dodge any questions related to direct deposit.I realize it could be as simple as too much extra paperwork, but is there any potential for something more shady to be going on?  <response>: Id say your work has money problems of some sort. Either theyve run into problems with funds when trying to do this in the past, or the company they dealt with got burned by them, or maybe theyre just putting off the payments because they know a cheque deposited Friday wont clear until Monday. If you work for some kind of contracter constructioninstallationetc Id say that confirms it. Its basically the business version of living paycheque to paycheque. Mind you, this is all poorly informed speculation on my part. 