Truss, this job is for you. It suits a naive and ignorant company stooge so you fit the bill.
Better still, best you remind them in the interview what your best mate the former CP told you to say. The irony here is that this ex CP whose picture I'm sure keep on your bedroom ceiling and another beside the kleenex told you the company has never lied.....? Too funny because he just lied to you!
18 months as SO and then you start swimming in money you say.....???
What an idiot. Usually I do my best to tell others not to apply by use of cold undeniable facts, but the likes of you are suited to it all too well to bother.
You may be at FL410 but all the piloting world will still look down on you.