Jimmy, haven’ t read your cartoon for some time. Sorry to hear about your aunt. In this cartoon, I didn’t get the meaning. Why you put the red letter for consultant?
Thanks, Lily. Here, the pink underlining for “CONSULTANT” is just adding emphasis. octopus kid is suggesting that dinosaur kid, in questioning her idea of a sandwich, has gone ‘above his paygrade,’ and he should just listen to her.
You know how different jobs have different responsibilities and different levels of pay? dinosaur kid is just making sandwiches, so his pay/responsibility is supposedly lower than octopus kid’s, because she’s the boss. And a consultant is someone who might get paid a lot to give the company advice. So octopus kid is saying, “I’m not paying you for advice, to tell me what is and is not a sandwich; I’m paying you to do what I say and make sandwiches. Now be quiet.”
Jimmy, haven’ t read your cartoon for some time. Sorry to hear about your aunt. In this cartoon, I didn’t get the meaning. Why you put the red letter for consultant?
Thanks, Lily. Here, the pink underlining for “CONSULTANT” is just adding emphasis. octopus kid is suggesting that dinosaur kid, in questioning her idea of a sandwich, has gone ‘above his paygrade,’ and he should just listen to her.
Thank you, Jimmy. I almost got your meaning. Here what does ‘above his paygrade’ mean?
You know how different jobs have different responsibilities and different levels of pay? dinosaur kid is just making sandwiches, so his pay/responsibility is supposedly lower than octopus kid’s, because she’s the boss. And a consultant is someone who might get paid a lot to give the company advice. So octopus kid is saying, “I’m not paying you for advice, to tell me what is and is not a sandwich; I’m paying you to do what I say and make sandwiches. Now be quiet.”