This Is How We'd Like to Ask for a Raise

NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Some employees tiptoe around asking for a raise, but not the legendary cartoonist Al Hirschfeld.

After publishing his portraits in The New York Times for nearly four decades, Hirschfeld learned that the paper's accounting department disputed a 50-cent charge he'd put on his expense report for a previous assignment. This episode frustrated him so much that he sent a letter to an editor at the paper in 1962 strongly requesting more money for his work.

Not everyone can be as eloquent and funny as legendary cartoonist Al Hirschfeld when asking for a raise.