So from September 2010 up until September 2012, I never got paid penalty rates for working on Saturdays & Sundays. I never actually bothered to check my payslips, I'd just have a look at my bank account and be stoked with whatever was there. In September 2012, the whole organisation is restructured and there is a change of management at the particular store I work out. All of sudden with this new change in management I'm suddenly getting paid more. Not a lot more, but a nice amount. We had some downtime at work and I thought I'd check out all my payslips from when I started. Turns out despite working every Saturday & Sunday for 24 months, my old boss thought he'd stay under budget by not paying us penalty rates. I send off a quick e-mail to HR to see if they can check it out. Yesterday I got a backpay of $9,776 ($8,734USD). Pretty stoked on that, and learnt a lesson to check to my payslip a lot closer.
Also got done with my winter semester at university. Not going to miss getting up at 5:30am to attend a class for 5 hours over 6 weeks. Stoked I actually did something during my break instead of just working & sleeping.