Bottom line: Promotions are often just a ruse to extract more work for the same or sometimes even less pay overall. Congratulations! You've been promoted to a

Bottom line: Promotions are often just a ruse to extract more work for the same or sometimes even less pay overall. Congratulations! You've been promoted to a "salaried" position. Translation: You'll be making less without overtime. Changing plantations can be a short term fix for a wage slave but the only way to avoid this sort of corporate BS entirely over the long term is to leave the plantation and become self employed/freelancer.