When the same worker buys something at another store and writes a check, the store clerk can check the worker's account and then deduct the sales amount. With just three paychecks in the day, kids learn quickly to save for any bigger-ticket item. At first, the fifth-graders are excited. They have anticipated their day at the village for weeks. At Bank of America, the bookkeeper is under pressure most of the day to keep up with a rising pile of bills and checks to pay.
Tellers soon learn their job is feast or famine.
Everyone seems to come at the same time to deposit their paychecks. The weeks of training pay off. Please endorse your check. By the time the third break rolls around at midday, when the kid-run McDonald's serves hamburgers and Chicken McNuggets, some of the bank's employees can't quite seem to get back on the job right on time. And it's so hard deciding between that cool water bottle selling at Paradyne and that neat pin on Home Shopping Network when there's only enough money left for one more item.