Of all the workplace horror stories out there—getting fired via email, your boss taking credit for your ideas, Karen in accounting microwaving fish—it’s hard to top what happened to Alex Murphy in RoboCop. This guy DIED on the job. And not in some peaceful, heart-wrenching, “tell my wife I love her” kind of way. No, Murphy got straight-up obliterated by a gang of coked-out psychopaths who, in a just world, should have spent the rest of their lives in a high-security prison or, at the very least, working for Ticketmaster.
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