Sadly, your comments reflect what is happening in most major industries. I have been retired about 8 years and met an old mate yesterday who retired in january.He is overjoyed with retirement and said that in the few years that i have been gone i probably wouldn't recognise the business anymore. Individual decisions are frowned upon you just follow the party line and hope you are keeping your nose clean, learn the politics and try and follow them without getting too depressed. That more or less sums it up.