8 Minutes Idle 2012

Dan, Tom Hughes, works in a Bristol call centre and faces upheaval when his angry mother Kathy, Pippa Haywood, kicks him out after he lets his father, Paul Kaye, in—who subsequently steals her winning lottery ticket. He is told by his icy boss Alice Montserrat Lombard that he must step into team-leader shoes, a role that means choosing someone to fire or being fired himself. He is then told that his father has been in a hit-and-run (suspected to involve his mother) and he visits him in hospital.

He moves into the office with his cat, John. The morning after, Ade, Antonia Thomas, deduces that he’s sleeping in the office and lends him money to find somewhere to stay, which he instead uses to buy a replacement iPod. He asks around for someone to stay with, including the coworker he has a crush on, Teri, Ophelia Lovibond, all of whom prove unsuitable or unable to put him up, so he remains sleeping at the office.

Alice increases the pressure on Dan to pick someone to fire and says it should be Teri. His mother confronts him to find the location of his father, and coworker Ian, Jack Ashton, confronts him about the money Ade lent him, and he is accosted in the office one night by Alice, who comes onto him and the two have sex.

The team meeting follows, and Teri is abruptly fired for being late after Dan had failed to fire her earlier. At another work social, Teri reveals that she had made up her boyfriend Jake. Dan then reveals his living situation to Teri, who helps him retrieve John the cat from the ceiling (now unfortunately dead). While Teri is in the ceiling, Alice arrives at the office for Dan, resulting in a confrontation.

The call centre company then folds, and at the final karaoke social Alice knocks Teri out with a bottle. Dan rushes her to hospital where he sees his father leaving with his mother, having gotten back together for the lottery money. Teri recovers, and Dan invites her to live with him in the now-empty office as she has been kicked out of her houseshare in the meantime.