Apophis
What you say is right, how do people cope with a +20% loss of wages? (7 day shift gone) bills and other things still arrive as the life style created by the wage you earn (no matter your position you live to it) is suddenly GONE but some other poor souls will get even worse by being retrenched (that word gets me as I do not remember being TRENCHED) and it is a hard world out there now.
I know and realise a downturn in aviation but cannot help but see a young Forstaff that was a good performer in the early days with low overheads (make that a small group of office dwellers) and a crew whom made the company viable by turning work out ahead of time and finally got the overflow work from the big brothers up Sydney way.
Thanks to the early guy's at Forstaff you created their Company for them but let's hope it does not fold up and remain a memory like ASTA Services.