10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)

2. Anything At Weyland-Yutani

There are plenty of big, mostly evil corporations around that you probably shouldn't work for, unless you don't really give a fig about your morales. Companies that fund war crimes, which add to the destruction of the rainforest, or just generally mess up people's lives in the pursuit of profit - that's all pretty bad, but at least you don't have to deal with the consequences of those in our day-to-day employment (for the most part). You can mostly keep your head down and carry on with whatever it is you're doing without having to consider the dodgy offshore tax practices the higher ups get their hands dirty with, but that could get a little harder to ignore in the future. Especially if homogenization and globalisation continue apace, when the existing big evil companies will merge into megacorporations, which we imagine (using some basic algebra) will make the even more evil. That's certainly the impression we get from all the big, evil megacorporations that populated eighties sci-fi films: the Tyrell Corporation of Blade Runner, Omni Consumer Products in Robocop, and especially Weyland-Yutani corporation which makes everything bad happen in the Alien franchise. Well, nearly everything bad. Ridley Scott's got to share some of the blame for Prometheus. The Company, as they're more commonly known, has fingers in every pies going - from modern-day practices to space mining and all points inbetween - and many of those are actively destructive to not only their employees but the rest of civilisation. Look, would you wanna be the poor unfortunate cargo pilot or pencil pusher who gets roped into capturing a murderous, rapidly-multiplying alien monster? No. Exactly. Any position in one of these megacorporations is rife with awfulness.