Defender Of Manual Work Mugs

'The computer will never replace maintenance engineering.'

"Will you be putting her in day care or bringing her up artisanally?"

The role of administration.

"But if you were a real boy you wouldn't be allowed to work such long hours."

"How would you rate your toleration for risk?"

'It's a beautiful lighthouse. However, hauling the batteries up the stairs has taken its toll on my back.'

'It's coffee time Earl, take a break.'

"Look - we'll whistle when it's fifteen dollars an hour."

Top - Perhaps

Manual Worker

"Don't be irreplaceable, because if you can't be replaced...you can't be promoted."

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."

"They never told us what carrying twenty times our own weight would do to our knees."

Maternity Ward "Just call me the Secretary of Labor."

Well paid job

'Let's be fair and take a vote - how many here think we need a minimum wage increase?'

'I've tried hunting, and I've tried gathering, but what I really want is a desk job.'

A plunger in an outhouse

'Larry, did you replace the cartridges in all the respirators this morning?'

'I'm actually looking for a manual labourer...'

"We appreciate your eagerness, but stop gnawing the furniture."

"I shoveled 5 driveways and made $40."

"Larry...GRUNT!...next time you feel like giving that extra 10 percent at work...would you mind giving it to someone else?...GRUNT!"

'We do a lot of grunt work here. Grunt if you're OK with that.'

'You're being replaced by a machine...But at least it's an American-made machine.'

"You're all work and no play. I like that in an employee!"

Workers constructing barcodes

'No... It's too heavy, lads. We need the forklift truck.'

When the going gets tough... Then and Now

Construction Worker Running Away From Boulder

Working For Coconuts

"Edward Shovelhands"

"Every year these minimum-wage jobs get harder and harder."