[FL] Need Advice: Doing More Work Than Being Paid For
Hi all,
I’m currently at a Fortune 500 Company. When I started, I was leveled at a “1” which is the lowest professional level you could hold. Think coordinator type work. 6 months in, my leader at the time assigned a lot more of a work load, primarily handling staffing and workforce management for a global workforce. This increased my responsibilities by about 80-90%. It was agreed that if it needed to stick for more than 2-3 months, my manager would submit a relevel to HR. Then, my leader left.
The Sr Manager of the team had no interest entertaining this relevel, but wanted me to continue the work. After 3 meetings of him saying no, I took it to my HR Rep. The HR Rep was in my corner, saying it was wrong I was doing all this work with no added comp. I was doing the work of a “4” which should have been at least $20k/year more plus an annual bonus and business travel.
Finally, HR forced the Sr Manager to submit a relevel. Where I learned he did the bare minimum, submitted an unrealistic job description, promised me a “4” level, but a week later HR told me I went to a “2”, got a $6k pay bump, and my JD went from 1 page to 3 pages.
Here we are, a year and a half later, and I’m still fighting. Last week, we tried again because someone else on my team who was same status got releveled. I was told “it’s a nice proposal but it’s not happening”. Mind you what I submitted is the job I’ve been doing for a year and a half.
I told my current manager that as of today, I’m no longer doing the additional work, I’ll be going back to what I was originally hired to do, and that’s that.
What advice might you have to help me rectify the situation? I truly love this job and what I get to do. But I can’t stand by and let that much money go and be taken advantage of.