Old projects wind down and new ones start up - on my proj there’s a follow on contract so the jobs are bridged from current to new. My boss failed to create my position in the new project then after all applications closed went “oh crap, we need her” so created a new role & combined admin tasks at lower job grade. Flogged it off as if he was doing me a favour & expected me to be happy about a pay cut. NO CHANCE LOSER!!! Oh and also advertised the job before he bothered to tell me any of this.