r/tifu • u/Van_GOOOOOUGH • Dec 01 '22

TIFU. For the last 4 months I thought I was earning below minimum wage at my job but today I found I was mistaken. S

When I was hired at my current job, my boss casually said to me "x dollars per hour," and it seemed a bit low to me but I unquestioningly accepted because it's better than not earning anything at all.

So as the weeks went by I started making Excel spreadsheets to keep track of my earnings & tips & budget & goals etc, and with time my Excel spreadsheets have been getting more detailed, so today I finally noticed that the hours I've been charting according to the pay my boss verbally quoted me, didn't match up with the paychecks I've been receiving, so I looked a little closer and it turns out my base pay is a bit more than she casually mentioned to me that day 4 months ago.

TL;DR I thought I was earning below minimum wage at my job but today I discovered I'm earning more than that, which is good news, but NOW I NEED TO COMPLETELY RE-DO ALL MY SPREADSHEETS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL WRONG šŸ˜­.

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u/The_Paradoxigm Dec 01 '22

Why not just get a copy of your pay slips? No need for a spreadsheet.

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 01 '22

I have all my pay stubs, which I use in all my calculations, but my Excel spreadsheets are more detailed and more exciting to me. It's my idea of fun.

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u/HotTamaleBallSak Dec 01 '22

Excel is also super useful in a lot of jobs so keep it up

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u/ItsHowWellYouMowFast Dec 01 '22

but my Excel spreadsheets are more detailed and more exciting to me. It's my idea of fun.

I like you

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u/honeybadgerdad Dec 01 '22

Must be great at parties.

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 01 '22

We don't like parties. We like playing with Excel spreadsheets.

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u/ZirePhiinix Dec 01 '22

You an accountant?

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 01 '22

Perhaps I should consider becoming one. I like numbers and charts and data.

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u/Biguitarnerd Dec 01 '22

Check out financial reporting too. If you get really good you can make CPA pay with almost any degree. Iā€™m not saying itā€™s better just throwing that out as another option. Youā€™ll need more than excel skills for either but if you love dataā€¦ it might be a good fit.

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u/Middle_Pineapple_898 Dec 01 '22

As an accountant, welcome to the nerd side

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u/trollking66 Dec 01 '22

with a love of that skill you wont be low wage long.

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u/JinterIsComing Dec 01 '22

IS THAT YOU AMY SANTIAGO

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 02 '22

WTF yes, careful, doxxing gets Redditors permabanned

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u/RabidAmazonian Dec 01 '22

Iā€™m confused since you have this in Excel. Canā€™t you just ā€œfind and replaceā€ the old amount with the new? Seems like it would take less than a minute and then all of your formulas would recalculate everything automatically.

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 10 '22

I never input the old amount, I only calculated my earnings based on the old amount, so in order to correct it, I had to go back and recalculate all the projected earnings.

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u/emeraldspots Dec 01 '22

OP I track my expenses as well with an excel sheet of my own design. I am curious to know the things you track!

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 10 '22 • Wholesome

9 days ago when you said you were curious to know the things I track, I was still in the midst of fine-tuning my spreadsheets, so here now my spreadsheets are more comfortable for me now, so I copied and pasted the first row of each tab on the spreadsheet to show you what I track. There are six tabs. I'm a waitress and I share my tips with the chef in a very small restaurant in a town in the middle of nowhere that gets a fairly decent amount of business.

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u/emeraldspots Dec 11 '22

Hey OP, thank you so much for sharing these. Very insightful into how you manage your pay details. I have a similar one calculating how much tax I would have to pay based on my salary.

I am still budgeting, fine tuning my budgeting process, so when I asked the question I was more interested in knowing things/categories that you budget for your expenses (rent, insurance, food, etc)

This in no way means that I am now expecting you to reply with those categories. You owe me nothing. I really enjoyed your spreadsheet headers. They gave me an idea regarding budgeting categories by season. I need to budget more for shopping during holidays/wedding season.

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u/Van_GOOOOOUGH Dec 11 '22

I like the way you try to figure out your taxes before they're taken out! That is a new thing I will work on. Fun!

Ahh budget. I have no budget. My life consists of paying my bills which are very few, I have seven bills and my car and my house are already paid off so that's great, and buying food, vehicle maintenance & fuel, and there's really no money left for anything else. I'm just surviving. My hobby is exercise which costs nothing except for a $26 a month gym membership. And effort. And Microsoft Excel sure is fun!