I emailed HR last week after working here for 6 mo to confirm it was a lump sum payout after 2 years (i had already known this through coworkers, but wanted to confirm) and was informed by HR that they don’t actually have a signed contract and sent me one to sign for 10k. After responding back stating my original offer and contract, they said the 20k offer was a miscommunication and don’t have record of the original contract. When I accepted the position originally I signed the 20k contract and sent it back to HR. Then I had to push my start date back 3 months which they had no problem with. 3 months later they made me reapply for the position under a different HR system, which I found suspicious. When I reapplied I made it a point to clarify this was the same position I had already signed a contract for with the same sign on bonus of 20k. HR lady said yes and that it was just a technicality because of new system and even updated the new posting to say “20,000 sign on bonus eligible”. 6 months later here I am getting lied to when I could have gotten better position when I was searching, but chose this because of the sign on bonus. The email of me sending back the signed 20k contract is also scrubbed from our employee email and suspiciously no where to be found (which I am very certain I sent).