Salary Advocate Mugs

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

"I've never said this to a woman before, but here goes: We're not paying you enough."

"It used to Casual Friday. Now it's Furlough Friday."

Motivation to work

'It's not fair. Women doing the same job I'm doing in this office are being paid more than I am!'

'Here are some bonus checks. Distribute them unfairly.'

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

'Are you picky about preferring something with a livable wage?'

"Your employees have lost faith in your ability to pretend to care about them."

Susan finally becomes assertive with her boss...

Income inequality vs Income Diversity.

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

"She's always like this at this time of the month!"

'The problem is, you don't take enough pride in your temporary, no benefit, below living wage job!'

You earn too much! Executives vs Unions.

"Glen is a one-issue voter....medicare and social security solvency."

'HR fired me because of an 'unstable job demand'. When I demanded a decent wage, they said I was unstable.'

"I agree you're due for a raise, and when you leave my office, you'll still be due for a raise!"

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

"Equal pay? Good grief, I remember when we could get away with a few shiny beads and bits of mirror!"

Replaced by a Robot...

"The 'wage gap' mostly disappears when you control for the fact that women work far fewer hours than men."

"Employees bound to their employer by desperation and fear of unemployment. Now THAT'S my idea of a union!"

Abuse or harassment of staff will not be tolerated

"Boss, my living wage is on life support!"

"The raise I'm asking for isn't just about me. It's about shrinking the income gap."

"According to our records, we gave you a raise 15 years ago. And now you've requested another one? Greed is not a quality we like in our employees."

'. . . but I didn't belong to the union, so a scab stole my job!!'

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

"Excuse me, sir. Could I please have a word about the motivational posters?"

Executive pay.