I work for a Fortune 500 company in a frontline sales position. I’ve worked for the company for six years now. Recently, in hopes of moving up, my family and I moved to a new city and settled down.
Fast forward a few months and the company opened some positions above me. The position included a management title and a pay bump. I applied and the interview process went really well. They said I was a great fit and congratulated me on the new role. My family was ecstatic. They gave me a start date and told me an offer letter was coming any day.
A week before my scheduled start date, an offer letter still had not come. I got a call from a member of upper management to inform me that they would not be going forward with promotions right now. Despite our area being short staffed, record profits, and a CEO that makes 850x a frontline employee they decided they could not afford to open the position as promised. I was simply told to ‘keep working hard’ and be a ‘voice’ at my location. I was told ‘at some point, we will eventually give you that promotion’. They won’t give me anything in writing to solidify this promise. I feel deceived and used. It has been humiliating to explain to friends and family that the promotion we just celebrated was pulled out from under me. What would you do, Reddit?