Tldr; denied a raise because my job title hasn't changed in almost three years despite more responsibilities.
Hello, long story is long. 2 years and 11 months ago I started working with my step-dad at a local factory as a material handler. Original job duties were taking paperwork to the warehouse and delivering supplies to one location. Fast forward several years and that has grown to me doing three people's positions due to layoffs and me “taking one for the team” due to working with family. Responsibilities now include keeping track of inventory for two entire departments, paperwork for a third and forklift and lift truck delivers of pipe and coil to warehouse, and moving inventory when and where it's needed no questions asked, office supply deliveries for most of our engineering department, and fixture delivers to r&d for verification. This August after several “lateral” movements between departments and new bosses I am in a area I love with a boss I shoot the crap with all the time. Then out of the blue my step dad passes and I take stock of what I'm doing and realize I'm taking on way too much. I realize I should definitely be making more for all I do. Mind you I'm not in any hurry and I love what I do, but I'll have at least 2 hours of “nothing” to do; which I fill with doing nothing and looking busy.
Now to the meat of the story, after a pay freeze for 2 years I ask the cio (whom my stepdad was good freinds with) and my boss about a raise for my increased job load and taking on extra amounts of responsibilities and taking up the extra positions after the layoffs.
Everyone's cool with it and they chat with me about it and I'm like “cool, more money”…wrong. hr called me in today and was like “since your position hasn't technically changed since you were hired were keeping you at the current rate”. Like wth, one person decides ah yes this meaningless title dictates how much you make. I love what I do and have no complaints whatsoever about the work, but why? Now that my step-dad is gone I have no family ties here, and new hires make what I do after 90 days. Companies really don't care about individuals and you have to job hop just to stay competitive pay wise.