================================================================= This file is a part of the 1999 Hyperreal Drug Archives Snapshot. This snapshot is hosted by Erowid and will not be updated after October 1999. The information in these files may be out of date. See Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults for more current info. ================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 May 92 12:57:56 PDT From: Randy Lindsey It is not uncommon in large companies to require an annual "payout", in which each employee picks up their paycheck in person, displaying ID. I think this is to guard against payroll padding. At the facility where I'm doing a project, all 1,500 employees received a memo ordering them to report to the cafeteria for their annual "peyote". Peyote appeared several times in the memo, and even in the title line! Eventually one of my colleagues ran "payout" through the spelling checker, and sure enough it suggested "peyote" as the alternative. Perhaps the spelling checker writers are junior staff with closer ties to their college counter-cultural days than to corporate terminology... Randy Lindsey ------------------------------