What I learn't from the AN collapse is a lot of folks, perversely, relished in other's misfortune. Especially those who bombed out in Ansett selection.
Really? That's awful.
Some people are a waste of good oxygen.
I was rejected by Ansett (for a F/A position) about a year before the collapse. At the time I was absolutely devastated, because I'd always wanted to work for them. That didn't for one nanosecond impact on the horror I felt for people I'd worked alongside that were suddenly out of work, many of them not really well qualified for non-airline employment and a bit old to retrain easily. Every now and then I wonder where some of them ended up, of course a lot of people stayed in the industry (ex-Ansett types pop up in the strangest of places) but for so many baggies, CS staff, caterers et al it must have been really hard to adjust somewhere else.
What I do remember as an outsider is how sudden it was, one day Ansett was there, the next, you showed up for work at the airport and...it was gone.
Was there much warning on the inside?