been reading and hearing more and more lately that people should be just happy to have a job, should stop complaining about salary etc. and that they should think more about the people who have become recently unemployed etc.

well what are people's thoughts on this?

i personally don't see where it's coming from. If certain industries are failing and that is causing people working in those industries to become redundant, should that affect the people in insutries that are not failing?

say for example (real example) employee X works for Cmopany Y. now company Y is barely affected by the current economic situation and is infact bringing in record profits. These profits are a direct result of the work and effort of Employee X.

now, should employee X feel guilty if he wanted a payrise for example based on the fact that others are having a bad time?

discuss...