7. SPECTRE Thunderball
I always like to picture the scene the day the contractors came round to install Blofeld's electric-charged chairs. I imagine there would've been a lot of disbelieving looks among his workforce, the sort of 'are-we-gonna-stand-for-this' wordless eye-shifting which occurs in such awkward moments. Yet of course they were the feline-stroking Blofeld is a terrifying force to be reckoned with, the sort of man who treats his employment pool with something bordering on homicidal disdain. It's at this point you imagine that these chaps really needed somebody to fight for them. Just look at their situation they can't get a job elsewhere (an unwanted perk to having a super-villain boss), their mortality rates are stupendously high and they're stuck between a perma-humping homicide factory in James Bond and an employer who takes a murder-y stance to employee failure. It's at this time when you want someone to say that the workload is unreasonable, and these are real people, dammit, and can't be expected to work in such conditions. After all, there was a reason why the Austin Powers sketch about the goon who was ran over by the steam-roller. Somewhere, these chaps have families to provide for, and keeping them in these sorts of situations means you're just going to end up with a whole lot of grieving widows and no small amount of lawsuits. At best, they're going to be unhappy about their health and life insurance bills, which I imagine must be astronomical.