I'm 22 been working in software sales since last June so about 8 months. My job right now is to primarily call up prospects and see if they're interested in our product and set a meeting for an account exec (closer) to actually sell them the product. The VP of sales in our company called me a phone monkey (I'm brown) last week as a joke I think and my co-worker who sits beside me heard it. He said something along the lines of hey phone monkey, did you get my email earlier? Now I don't really think its racist as people do refer to my job in the industry as being a phone monkey but just the way he said it he knew he fucked up right away. Didn't apologize but I just looked at him and said oh yeah I got it and he basically darted away. 

The next day what do you know I'm in a meeting with HR, the CEO of the startup and the VP of sales. The VP first says he's very sorry about what he said it just slipped out and he'd never say it again. CEO just also aplogized and made me aware I could take some time off outside of vacation days to cope with this. I thought about just blurting out oh it was no problem I didn't even think it was racist, but I put on a sad face and said its been a hard day since and I don't know how I'm gonna get over this. The look on the VP's face and the CEO was hilarious they were scared shitless, HR lady asks if I have any reccomendations on how we could all move forward from this. I said that I know I've only been in my current role for 8 months and usually the promotion to a closing role (account exec) comes after 16-24 months but I am doing very well and I think I would feel a lot better about my job and my role here if I were to get that promotion immediately. They all look at each other and say they need me to step out for a sec, I agree and go to the bathroom. When I get back the CEO shook my hand and the VP shook my hand and said welcome to the big leagues and they gave me the promotion. I ushered them to sit back down and negotiate the terms then and there with HR present. I negotiated an extra 10k base salary and a few more days of vacation, which no newly promoted account exec has ever done here I'm pretty sure. I got the offer letter today and everything was in proper shape so I signed and I moved into a bigger cube today. I went over to the VP of sales who's still my boss and said great to be working even more close to you again all is forgiven now lets all make some serious commission. I did this so he'd know everything is normal now and him and I are fine. 

I told my gf this and she said it was an asshole move to make because they basically had no choice to promote me and I put them in a terrible situation. 

AITA?