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The biggest reason all three senior recruitment managers left was they were tired of lying to the kids coming through the door - "a few years as an SO, upgrade and then you can bid a base and take your wife home". It's crap. It's been crap for a long time. Sure, when you're 20 something and single, you can put up with anything for a few years but the days of Cathay Pacific as a career are long gone and now they're quickly exiting the stepping stone category too.