My friend who is a janitor just told me the $1400 stimulus is the largest amount of cash he has ever gotten in a check! Is this common?

It's common for people who work for a living

Persian fable:  A rug merchant was selling beautiful hand-crafted Persian carpets for a 100 drachmas each. A fellow merchant said he could be selling them for much more than a mere 100 drachmas. The merchant was puzzled. "Do you mean there's a bigger number than 100?"

$7.25 an hour for 40 hours is $290. Less 15% taxes is $246.50. Times 4 weeks (if he gets paid monthly) is $986.00 a month. So yeah, across most of the southern states who still a have that minimum wage. Even making $10.00 and hour (less taxes) and it would still be true..  .

Yes.  Most people get direct deposit for their jobs now.  

Yes lol. Are you kidding???

Many people live paycheck to paycheck and work low wages and pay too many taxes.

My checks at walmart were 550 to 600 every 2 weeks. That's hard to get by on if you pay rent and have insurance. 

Once in a while I'd get more if I worked overtime with approval and ridiculously long hours.

Yeah that is common.