"Forbidding unhappiness isn't going to make everyone happy." This is one hell of a quote! It's going up on my cube wall (seriously) I personally don't have a

"Forbidding unhappiness isn't going to make everyone happy." This is one hell of a quote! It's going up on my cube wall (seriously) I personally don't have a problem with being shot down with a good argument, but the problem that leads to "mindless complaining" is when management dismisses me without considering my solution at all, and then ends up costing us a bunch of money to fix further down in the product lifecycle -- and guess who gets stuck cleaning up that mess?