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We use the word promotion with quotations where I work. A promotion generally gets you a special title, more work and nothing else. They tell us to think of it as a "stepping stone" in your career with the company. Sure you do more work for the same pay, but now in the future you can be considered for other upward positions. Strangely enough the only people I see getting the "upward positions" are either friends/cronies or relatives of the people promoting them.

Back before I worked for the company the nepotism was so bad that the head office sent a guy in to do employee audits on all these new people hired off the street into management positions who just happened to be friends and relatives of other members of management in the company.

He would take them into an office and ask them one question: What do you do here?

If they didn't have a good enough answer they were told to immediately clean out their office and they were no longer employed there.

This happened back in the 90's but the old guys I work with still talk about that day of crying people funneling out into the parking lot carrying boxes one after another.

Is this a large company? Not retail is it? Good that they cleaned house, a lot of higher ups probably didn't want them to