I was an apprentice roof tiler for 5 years . I was treated like garbage and paid a low wage . One day , about 3 years into my apprenticeship , my boss found out he did not need to pay us fuel allowance , so he cut it . Just a straight up pay cut because he could . I decided then and there that as soon as my Apprenticeship was concluded , I would leave . Later down the road , he mishandled his money , and had to pay us the following pay day . I got what I was owed , but having to wait until next pay day is unacceptable . My last day at work wasn ' t my worst , but it was up there . I was being abused because when I worked out how many tiles were needed on a section , I was about 8 short . This wasn ' t a quote , just an estimate of how many we needed from the ground to the roof , so when we were 8 short , I carried 8 up the ladder and the problem was solved . This was about 10 years ago and I forget the other reasons why I was being abused , but I was . After this shitty day , my boss told us all we had to wait again until next pay day for our money because he couldn ' t afford to pay us . I got home , and in the mail waiting for me was my Apprenticeship Certificate . I was done , fully qualified . I went to bed and slept in on a friday morning for the first time in a long time . My boss called , and called , left messages like that scene from office space . He came to my house , he banged on the door for maybe half an hour . The other team members followed suit and his company was put in liquidation not long after .