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I'm wondering whether or not I should give back a pro-rated amount of money that was a lump sum given to me by a pretty new employer based on the fact that I

have pretty much nailed down a new job and whether or not I should give any of that back.

So that's what you got you got you got paid a signing bonus to come with them.

Less structured than that.

Basically what happened is during the negotiations for this new job,

we agreed on a salary amount.

We walked away.

The next day they called me and said that for internal company politic reasons,

they didn't want to put that amount of salary on paper.

So what they were going to do

is put me on paper for a lower salary, and a third-party tendentially related to the business

would give me a lump sum, roughly equivalent to 33% of my annual income, just upfront. And

those two things combined amounted to the amount that we agreed on for an annual salary.

How long were you there?

I have only been working here for four months. There is not a shred of paperwork that has been wedded with ink that would legally require me to give this money back.

Did you handshake and say you would yes I did well I didn't say I would but I did handshake and

say I would work for them and I'm having some mixed feelings about leaving so

soon why are you leaving so soon because I have it someone unexpected, but a job hiring window opened for a job that is

kind of the Cadillac job in the industry in which I work.

Within three to five years, I would roughly triple my current income.

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