I work in professional services within Higher Education and i have a very good manager. The problem lies at the top, most managers are forced into the situation by targets set that even Superman would struggle to attain. In my experience most managers feel under a lot more pressure than the staff under them. Workforces are not valued anymore and its been like that for a while, all the so called well being at work and other half arsed programs do nothing to make staff feel any better, to quote Bob Seger " I Feel Like A Number" Most people are in the same boat and until you get above a certain level in the management chain its worth remembering that crap only rolls downhill. I don't think the problem is with managers as such but the very higher ups, all they are interested in is money and pushing work onto lower lever staff. How do they get away with this? easy really they keep saying things are not so good, if things don't improve we might have to lose a few people etc etc. Aiming these comments at managers is wrong, its the higher ups CEO's and the like that need to get with it.

With regard to the conspiracy theories, i agree with some and other i have complete disregard for. 911 for example i don't think there was ever any government involvement at all, the Americans are so paranoid about being caught it's more than they dare do to be involved. The death of Princess Diana, yes. Sorry but that stinks of the establishment being involved for whatever reason they had. As for being individuals in society, the blame for that being eroded away lies with the government from the early 90's, they created a nanny state where people didn't have to think for themselves or worry about certain things. Sadly over the years this has progressed to the level of ridiculousness we now find in society, getting back to how we used to be is going to be a very difficult task and i often wonder if it will ever happen in my time.