[drcy]

Many years back, I paid an hourly wage for someone to help me part time on a resale sales project. When a sale made a big profit, he said if something he worked on made a profit he should get a percentage of the return. I said, "I'll agree to give you a percentage of the profits, but only if you agree to be responsible for the same percentage of the losses." He said he'd stick with the hourly wage.

Translation: If you happily accept bumps in grade that financially benefit you, you don't get to complain about bumps in grade that financially hurt you.