Many years ago the Australian Pilots Association, or some such representative body, took out half pages advertisements in Flight International and other aviation publications. The purpose of these ads was to dissuade foreign pilots from going to work in Australia during a Qantas pilot strike. The content of the ads was quite vitriolic. Anyone who went to Australia would be a scab and so on and on.
Not that very long afterwards there was a serious pilot shortage in Europe and in particular in the UK. Australian pilots, many from Qantas I believe, went uo north in droves and found work flying far from home. This was considered quite an acceptable form of hypocrisy by those Australian pilots with whom i remonstrated at the time.
So all I have to say is whoopee! How about a little seasonal Schadenfreude!