Executive Pay Critic T-Shirts

'For those of you who don't wish to know the results of our executives pay...turn away now.'

"‘Click’, you have reached the White House, press 1 for shameless groveling, 2 for presidential pardons, and please have your credit card details ready..."

'Yes,we have equal pay in that we are grossly underpaid, all of us.'

'A word in my office Jones.'

Income inequality vs Income Diversity.

Payroll Dept. My economic anxiety has less to do with the weak dollar than the week's dollars! (Published originally on March 14, 2008.)

Progressive Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren Want a Higher Minimum Wage That Is Way Too Low

'Just because I'm Overpaid doesn't mean You're Underpaid.'

"We will create 12,000 new jobs...but we only need 4,000 new employees because on these salaries they'll need three jobs each to make a living!"

"That's not a company progress chart. That's the bosses salary!"

'I'm looking for a workaholic who feels the great job he does is compensation enough.'

"Of course he's smiling, he spent all the company profits before he died."

'There are some subjects that are off limits...CEO bonuses...Overtime pay...Business ethics...'

Waiting for the Phone to Ring

"There are 45,000 people at the stadium but only 500 of them bought tickets...the other ones are security guards for our 250 million euro player!"

'We've been given three months notice backdated twelve weeks.'

'We really can't afford golden parachutes any more, but here's a plastic crash helmet.'

Flunkey asking for a larger salary and not happy to be compared to a lower order of clergy

"Incentive program, you mean like your paycheck?"

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of an organization advocating the overthrow of the generous executive bonus system in corporations?

Number of Days Without a Rise

". . . You didn't have to pay for gas and electricity for five years! That's enough compensation, isn't it?"

'Duck and cover won't protect you in this stockholders meeting.'

'I'm giving myself a 30% increase this year. Please work out how many redundancies we need to cover it.'

Boardroom salaries

Help. High performing teacher trapped in low performing pay scale.

Boss in Office: 'We've had to recalibrate the bonus system - you now owe us five years worth of luncheon vouchers.'

Sanctions planned for bankers bonuses.

"And, in addition, you get a generous signing bonus."

'Get in there, $1,500,000, and pinch-hit for $3,250,000'

'Things are beginning to pick up...But there won't be a rerun of the excesses of the past...'

'We don't pay a salary. We've found we can get all the help we need by providing health insurance.'

"I'm afraid we'll have to postpone our contract talks. Our new negotiator quit. he won't work for the wages we pay."

"I want a raise, not an attaboy."

"I can tell you exactly what he was compensating for."