When I worked in Corp America I would watch the people I worked with come in everyday and complain about everything.  The company based part of your "salary" on that you could make on "incentives", (you know can make so much more), they set a goal and you have to reach it without any mistakes.  Then once you have done that so many months in a row they raise the bar for you to reach again only "higher" in their words.  I had always had a problem with this in the first place, and with the way I was so nonchalant about making my "incentive" the first few months they saw it as well.  See for me no one had to "incent" me to work, you just do it, why would you come to work and not work that's just dumb.  That is the whole idea, you come to work, you get a pacycheck and you get your benefits.  Uhu, see they had this idea that in order for people to want to work hard they had to give them an "incentive" to reach for in order to be a "good" and "efficient" worker.  Trust on this these people ate it up like it was fee ice cream, even those who were lactose intolerant.  After awhile too many people were making their "incentives".  Now get this if you did not make yours 3 consecutive months in a row you were put on probation.  Now tell me, am I crazy, I get put on probation because I did not reach a goal set that has nothing to do with my salary.   Oh wait let me clarify this, yes, you are supposed to do your job, what I am speaking about is this.  You actually do make your goal, the problem they have is that you did not go ABOVE goal.  You sold however many they asked for the month, what they have a problem with is that you did not sell more than that and for that you must be punished.  My former co-workers would grumble at lunch, at each others homes, and even after meetings, but, never in the meetings when these new goals were being rolled out.  I remember during one meeting we were told to call people at work, people who did not give us their work number.  I asked why, obviously they can not be reached or else they would have given the phone number.  I just HAD to go one step further(because that is what I do) and say what if they get in trouble, wouldn't you be mad if someone called you at work and you didn't given them your number.  I was told if I didn't it would be held against me.  No one but me was willing to stand up to what was wrong, they were'nt willing to committ what is called "class suicide", "work suicide", or "economic suicide".  They did not want to be the ones to say anything for fear of not getting that "promotion" which I did not get when it was time and trust on this, that was the reason, I was not suppopsed to speak back to the powers that be. People are not there yet, they are still willing to let others do the work and then they can come in on the back end so their rep is not damaged. I have always been the one to "committ class" suicide since I was a kid, I alway stood up to the bully, I was an odd ball and still am..I will be on the front lines when the time comes...