I currently work in maintenance at a hotel. I was 1 of 2 maintenance men and the other guy wasn't dependable or reliable. Every job that came up came to me because you couldn't trust him to do it either at all or in a timely manner.
This previous weekend the owners showed up and fired him and one of the deskies. Promoted me to head of maintenance/assistant manager after praising me for being an incredible employee and very smart.
The kicker. I make $16.50 an hour and work 32 hours a week. Relatively low wage but I like the job and am fine with that. Their idea of a promotion is that I am now salaried at the same rate of $16.50 an hour. Now I must work 50 hours a week. 7 days a week either myself or the manager must be in the office and work front desk on top of me working maintenance.
Basically everyday I'd work maintenance from 10am-4:30pm then 4:30pm-10ish I'd work the desk.
Huge promotion. No pay raise. No benefits. No retirement. In fact my work load would be increased about 3x for essentially less money that I already make.
On top of this I was on track to buy a 20 acre property come spring/early summer from this job. Now I have to hope they will listen to reason and give me a substantial raise (that I deserve given the amount of praise they've given me.) Or find a new job and start from scratch on the mortgage process.
That's all. Advice welcome.