Absolutely no sympathy. You all wanted to bypass the system and were willing to pay to do it. Now the managements are treating you like the short sighted idiots that you all are. In the process you have destroyed the terms and conditions in this industry and sent it on a downward spiral from which it will not recover. Now you have no prospects of permanent employment, god knows how much debt and have earned the utter contempt of nearly everyone in the business who have suffered from your "gimme it all now" attitude. Good luck job hunting with 500 hours or however much you managed to get. Now perhaps you realise that your schoolboy dreams of paying for 6 months line training will not automatically lead to a left seat at Emirates and the promises of the crooks at CTC and elsewhere were nothing more than bullsh*t.
If you want sympathy, look it up in the dictionary. Between sh*t and syphilis I believe.