10 Best Evil Corporations to work for in film
When the pay is good enough to die for, you work here
10. Cyberdyne Systems
At the bottom of the list is Cyberdyne Systems.
It's a technology company with an advanced artificial intelligence defense system that causes the deaths of trillions of humans across possibly infinite timelines. That leaves little time for debugging between coffee. Depending on the timeline, you can earn a decent living until August 29th, 1997, or June 18th, 2021. Â
The pay is excellent, and remote work opportunities are available on multiple timelines. Still, there is no real retirement plan or job security due to terminators trying to take out employees, judgment day, and the army of terminators that follow.
Pay ✅
Travel (time travel mostly) ✅
Remote work ✅
Job Security 🚫
Retirement 🚫
End of infinite worlds due to SKYNET🚫
9. Veidt Enterprises
Coming in next is multinational corporation Veidt Enterprises, due to only ending millions of lives instead of trillions.
Sure, the CEO, Adrian Veidt, has a god complex, which isn't uncommon, but he is competent and will kill millions (which may include you and your family) to save billions. Sometimes, the staff may die or be given terminal cancer for what Adrian determines is the greater good. The upside is splendid pay, and you may actually get a retirement plan if you survive the CEO's machinations.
With great pay and a chance to collect your retirement, this is an option if you prefer not being homeless or being beaten by the Watchmen.
Pay ✅
Chance of Retirement ✅
Remote work ✅
Job Security 🚫
Sacrificed by the leader at any time🚫
Death of millions 🚫
8. Zorg Industries
Weapons maker and global company Zorg Industries takes the number 8 spot.
Incompetent CEO Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg makes a deal with evil incarnate and may end the world. The company is number 8 because the leadership is cruel, the pay is so-so, there are massive layoffs, and Zorg Industries makes deals with interplanetary terrorists. There's a lower chance of Zorg Industries actually ending life as we know it. The upside is they have amazing travel.
Suppose you survive the layoffs and promotion to henchmen, which will undoubtedly get you killed or arrested. In that case, you can skate by making a decent multi-star system living with retirement and vacation to Fhloston Paradise.
Travel (inter star system) ✅
Chance of Retirement ✅
Not responsible for ending the world ✅
Job Security 🚫
Pay 🚫
Incompetent leadership 🚫
7. U.S. Robotics (USR)
USR is a robotics global corporation that doesn't cause the extinction of humanity, just the possible enslavement of the human race.
Not having the world end is a significant perk of this company, along with the fantastic pay and technology. There aren't any remote work possibilities, and you will be confined to on-site work. Outside of the rare chance a robot misinterprets the 3 Laws of Robotics and completely goes insane with a plan to enslave humanity, things are pretty good.
The undeniable logic is that this may be an evil corporation, but you won't lose your job.
Excellent Pay and Tech✅
Retirement ✅
Job Security (never need to stop working) ✅
Enslavement 🚫
Remote work 🚫
VIKI is one step away from SKYNET 🚫
6. LexCorp International
LexCorp has many versions on TV and film, some more evil than others.
What ties it together is that LexCorp is about power and money (like most corporations) overall. A part of the organization is dedicated to defeating heroes, scheming to acquire power of all kinds, becoming president, and making deals with Darkseid. While the scope of LexCorp is enormous, it is usually localized to everyday corporate dealings.
Depending on when you join, you can do data entry or help create Bizzaro to stop Superman.
Great Pay and Tech✅
Job Security & Retirement ✅
Climb the corporate ladder✅
CEO is insane 🚫
May be recruited as a henchman to fight Justice League 🚫
Chance you will kneel before Zod 🚫
5. TCKR Systems
TCKR Systems is a corporation that specializes in neural technology, among others.
TCKR is in the middle of the road as a company. I don't believe they are intentionally evil as much as they are negligent. All of their tech is intended to improve lives, and if it goes awry, they distance themselves as much as possible. Excellent pay and technology are available if you are outside the Metalhead timeline.
TCKR doesn't end the world (most times) or even enslave you (depending on how you view San Junipero), but they are terribly negligent and may drive you insane.
Great Pay and Tech✅
Job Security & Retirement ✅
Potential for digital immortality✅
Maybe driven insane 🚫
Medical, financial, and other malpractice🚫
Potential dog-like terminators🚫
4. Globodyne
I couldn't find a logo for Globodyne, so I made one up with AI, which is fitting because Globodyne made up all its profits.
We've scaled down to normal Eron levels of corruption with no world-ending stakes. You can now go to work and not become a henchman, but you may become a patsy for corporate fraud. You will live an extraordinary life if the company doesn't go under.
Sure, you may become homeless and deported, but you can always live off your savings.
Great pay ✅
Climb the corporate ladder✅
Become well known✅
Poverty🚫
Job Security, Retirement, wealth🚫
Prison and deportation🚫
3. Globo Gym
If your only skill is gains, then Globo Gym is the place for you!
This is a corporation focused on the fitness niche that absorbs smaller competitors. The CEO has crippling body dysmorphia and insecurities and is an egomaniac, but they will pay you. Now, you must learn to play dodgeball and be a sycophant, but you don't have to die. The only rule is don't be fat.
If you have an unhealthy adoration of your physical form and would like to use that as a weapon against others, then this is the place to call home.
Decent pay ✅
Become a celebrity✅
Become physically fit✅
Become mentally ill🚫
Become a bully🚫
Get hit by a dodgeball🚫
2. IOI (Innovative Online Industries)
Innovative Online Industries is a global corporate competitor trying to gain control of the OASIS.
The CEO, Nolan Sorrento, is amazingly incompetent and a terrible businessman. Working here is probably the same as any other corporation today except for the enslavement of debt holders and once-in-a-blue-moon murder. If you are unlucky to be enslaved or a sixer, then life will be grim.
Overall, you can do well in any other role with access to the OASIS in your downtime.
Amazing pay ✅
Access to the OASIS✅
No physical danger✅
Potential enslavement🚫
Recruited to be a henchman (sixer)🚫
The company may dissolve due to poor leadership🚫
1. Stranton Oakmont Inc.
Want to be filthy rich and live out your wildest dreams while stealing from others?
Stratton Oakmont comes in at number one. You steal and take advantage of everyone, but the world doesn't end. The pay is so good that you can technically do good deeds.
This is the best place to be as far as evil corporations go.
Unbelievable retirement & pay ✅
Become a celebrity✅
Buy off police and judges✅
Stealing from hardworking people🚫
Addicted to Prostitutes & Drugs🚫
Federal prison time🚫