I agree with jim and maria on this one. if the business is doing well then theres no reason why you shouldnt be paid appropriately/get promotion etc etc etc.

Also "being grateful you have a job" isnt the be all and end all. Untimately people have ambitions, hopes, career paths etc and being in a dead end job due to the climate would be pretty depressing. Also we are as a race selfish so youll be thinking more about how your at the bottom of the pile in your life plan rather than the fact others are unemployed and your in work. Theres shit loads of people undervalued doing dead end jobs yet qualified to do much better. I bet most of them arent grateful and if they could afford it would quit thier job until they get a better one.

I personally think my jobs fucking shite and dont feel "grateful" about having the job, not in the slightest!! Do i feel guilty about that?? do i fuck!!! Sure i do feel a bit sorry for those in hard times and unemployed but i dont let that effect my feelings and behaviour, and why should i?? Sure it would be different if it was close friends;family unemployed, but in my "local" world its complete strangers and i dont think anyone walks round all day feeling grateful just because strangers are unemployed.

its like saying we should all feel grateful all the time that we have food when many in africa dont.... if we did that all the time wed all feel guilty as fuck and end up depressed!!! We all learn to "expect" what weve grown accustomed to and generally our attitude to those expectations wont change unless we loose something. Nothing wrong with that, its just normal human behaviour.