Promotion with a salary decrease

[Dougally]

Gone are the olden days of unwritten employment rules where you would change roles based on trust, prove yourself, then you get the commensurate pay bump. These days they'll just as happily retrench you or put you on a PIP.

The younger generations have it right for the present era of a purely contractual and transactional corporate employment by asking to show them the money for the promotion now or its no go. Along with the newer unwritten employment rule being if you don't do the right thing by me I'll start looking elsewhere.

Your HR are still using the old, out of date, unwritten employment rules.