For context: I (31m) started working for Company A in June of ‘21 doing construction work for them and getting anywhere from 50 to 75 hours or more a week. Pay was decent but the overtime definitely carried the job. After a few months work started winding down so I was transferred to another department and my overtime went away. 40 hour work week but it was Mon-Thur so it wasn’t a big deal, cut to July of las year, same thing, work is winding down so I go to another department. Now my work week is 40 hours but from Mon-Fri so it is basically another pay cut but they dress it up nice and I like the place, my coworkers and the work isn’t bad and I’m learning a ton plus at this time I’ve been there a month and year so I get a raise. Finally another year has come and gone and it is time to go in for another review and hopefully another raise. So I go in and the supervisor is glazing me up, I’m a good team member, reliable, do good quality work, timely, you name it. I felt proud AF of myself. Then they get to the point, I am being promoted! I was excited, until they told me that unfortunately the type of work I was hired to do and the type of work I have been doing for over a year now is compensated differently and that I would be taking a pay cut. Is that allowed? I feel like if they were on top of things they would have caught it the first time I was transferred out of my original position. If it was them needed me to provide something or do anything for them they’d be on my like flies on sh*t. Anyway o explained to my supervisor that this would technically be the fourth pay cut I go through and that I can’t afford it so he tells me that he’ll give me two weeks to think about it and to come back to him with a counter… which, what fuck does that even mean? Help? Advice? Thank y’all for reading in any case.