SR71, I subscribe to your sense of "fairness", but, regretably, the big bad world generally doesn't.
So, if you work for a company that is fecked, by association, you too. . .are fecked.
Unfortunately, for the hard working individual who made (with the benefit of hindsight
) the "wrong" choice, that, as we (used to ) say is "how the cookie crumbles"
You have to see it from both points of view, had I not left BMI in 96 with 9 years service, well I guess you can see my political campaigning direction, had I joined BA in 87 ? I would probably wish to strangle the "other me", or more pertinently the BritishAirwaysLinePilotsAssociation for allowing it to happen.
Fairness is a painting, which (like most worthwhile paintings)what you see, may vary greatly depending on where it is viewed from.