While I agree with many of the things being said in this thread, I do not agree that management is going to be looking to have people stick around for the long term.

When an employee stays around long term it means a much higher operating cost for the company. They are paying people double or triple the salary for the same work, contributing to the 401K, pensions (for the lucky few), health care, etc. With the costs associated with this, they can't be competitive in the market for which they are bidding. The big 3 auto makers are perfect examples of this or in aviation look at Comair and ExpressJet. Both companies have contracts that would lead to long term employees and both are now furloughing because they can't keep up with the race to the bottom.

Getting employees to leave and thus keeping relatively junior people around is a much better option. Training new hires is cheaper than keeping people around. Unfortunately this is the sad new truth in aviation.