Gordon,i have just the same feeling as You. I lost so many familiar faces,people i was accustomed to work with,-were thrown away within this nonsense of cutting everything into pieces. Years of knowledge before me,was waisted as a trash,-depriving also from me the opportunity to learn from them. In my last years,it was almost a happy surprise to meet a loader i knew,or a mechanic i had known for years. And for sure,-they were working with cutout pay,just to have any decent pension. And everyone just wanted to get out of this,because there was no reason to be proud of Your work anymore. 40 years of working with airplanes was suddenly nothing... Be it New School of Economics,but i think they have missed something in there. ...or quite a lot.