Many years ago I worked as 'minor apprentice' in a big industry in my hometown. It was a industry in the textile sector, and I worked with heavy machinery maintenance.

It was 4 hours per workday and the salary was horrible. I was paid half minimum wage. I live in Brazil, so half brazillian minimum wage was at the time R$ 400,00 per month, that was equivalent to $ 100,00 per month. Yep, that was less than a dollar per work hour.

The job was dirt and ultimately boring. I had to keep oiling the machines and tightening screws the entire day.

One day in that wonderful workplace I managed to break an instrutrial loom. The machine that was 3 to 4 meters (10 to 13 feet) high and that weighted more than a ton jumped off half meter from the ground when a screw struck in between the gears. That literally made the machine split in the half. Industrial looms are extremely expensive, and as far I can remember, one of those that I broke was worth around R$ 200.000,00 ($ 50.000,00). They couldn't fix the machine because I literally destroyed it.

They couldn't fire me at the time because I was a minor and I should have been supervised (I was by myself when I broke the machine). Also, for this same reason they couldn't charge me for the financial losses they had with the machine, so they charged everybody from the entire maintenance sector by discounting the losses from theirs salaries for months.

I worked the rest of my contract with everybody literally hating me.