To be honest if i work at a Band 1 grade, then that's probably because that grade suits me the most either because i'm not as skilled as i could be, i didn't work as hard as i could, or i want a quieter band. i wouldn't be unhappy about that at all and i certainly wouldn't expect sympathy.
Or because business needs dictated that they needed you there. You can see that banding is flawed by the fact that Manchester ACC is the fourth most complex piece of airspace in Europe and is only a band 4.