I worked on a movie that had a budget shortfall. We found out our checks for that week would not be coming, and likely the following week’s checks too. The producers asked we finish that day and take a weekend to give them time to secure funding before we all walked off the project.

When we came back they had funding again with our checks in hand.

A couple months later I helped a friend on another show and still have that check on my fridge, everyone’s checks were bouncing. I could not even get the bank from which it was drawn to cash it for me. Luckily that was only a single day’s work.