Cheques

[etherial]

One of my responsibilities this week (my direct boss being in Florida and all) is to write the company checks (but not sign them. boo hoo). This means I will be writing them out manually. I'm having difficulty if I should write them out in the manner I do, or in a more traditional fashion.

The differences between me and everybody else:

1. I write AD on all my christian calendar dates, or at least those that include the year, which would mean all the ones on these checks.

2. I write all my dollar amounts (the words, not the numerals) as mixed fractions. Thus, $150.50 would be One-hundred Fifty and a half dollars. The idea for this originated from the fact that I like writing out as much as I can, and that every check I've ever seen already has the word "dollars" printed on it, so it would be silly to write so it says "One-hundred fifty dollars and fifty cents dollars."

Comments

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

As a representative of your company you should write in their style, which probably means no AD and fractions of 100 rather than your reductions.

They're cute ideas but not exactly the stuff I'd expect a company to do. I'm actually kinda suprised no one complains about the reduced fractions method since it requires them to think to verify that what you put in the number box is what you meant.

What do you put for even dollars?

Re: Cute ideas

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Actually, the date thing is not a cute idea. I get knowing looks from the few people that notice.

As far as I know, nobody even looks at the script on the note, though I'm told that technically that is the quantity that matters, not the numerals.

As for following "Corporate Procedure," I'm loathe to do that. It would require using gradeschool ampersands.

Even dollars would just be "One-Hundred" big line "dollars"

Re: Cute ideas

[kadath.livejournal.com]

And what, prithee, is wrong with ampersands? I taught myself to draw them because they are a very cool symbol.

Re: Cute ideas

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

They're all backwards and stuff. Only communists write backwards. Are you a communist?

Re: Ampersands

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I love ampersands. I was referring to gradeschool ampersands. A script 'E' with a vertical line through it.

Re: Ampersands

[bonisagus.livejournal.com]

really I did a curly-q cross thingy...

Re: Cute ideas

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

It is cute. My first thought would be "he's writing it in case the calendar changes or for the convenience of alien archaeologists". Also shouldn't you use something other than an abbreviation for Anno Domini as your protest against Christian religion being involved in our calendar? (Are BC/BCE the alternate abbreviations?)

It's not really that dangerous, but no cent fractions does allow for easier editing of your written out amount since straight lines can be more easily incorporated into writing than cent-fractions. That's the main reason I put them in even for even dollars.

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[londo.livejournal.com]

I thought this too, but I was assuming that Etherial knew that and simply chose not to care.

Sometimes, it's more fun this way.