Hi fellow Redditors, just wanted to share this little gem with you real quick.
I live in a country where we’ve just had 4 bank holidays. Normally, the salary should be paid every end of the month, meaning March’s salary should have been paid in March. Apparently there was an error with our company’s bank and the salary still hasn’t been paid out yet. Almost all of my colleagues are freaking out how they’re supposed to pay their bills now and how their balances are now negative and everyone is super angry.
Meanwhile I’m sitting here with enough money saved from my last salaries that I’m super chill and would survive at least 3 more months without payment.
Not having to worry on how to cover basic expanses can be really good for your mental health.
I should mention that I’m not talking about a minimum-wage job but we’re all earning quite a nice salary and besaid colleagues really just like to spend too much.
So thank you personal finance for teaching me the importance of a rainy day fund, I’m now trying to grow it more until I have 1 year’s expenses covered :)
Submitted April 03, 2018 at 04:29AM by Shneedlew00ds https://ift.tt/2Gx4rwr
