Ahh yes, the old “Ansett Club”. What’s that? You want to join our company but you’ll be down the bottom of the seniority list as an FO for 10 years? No problem, we’ll just create a new position within flight ops management for you and you’ll be a captain.
Then there was the new entrant who benefited from the demise of Ansett but actively descriminated against any former Ansett pilot considered "suspect". The funny thing was they still ended up with an ex-Ansett pilot as CP.