I'm leaving Deloitte before 2 years and am being required to pay my sign-on bonus. I was thrown on a terrible project (not in my offering or industry) with no end in sight. It caused mental/physical health problems, and I was forced to leave the company to leave the project. Has anyone had luck fighting back paying the sign-on bonus or just not paying it back?

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You signed a contract. You are legally obligated to pay back the bonus. The entire reason that companies offer signing bonuses is to retain talent for X amount of years, it isn’t just a free gift.

I don’t know the details of your contract but it’s probably pro rated. Don’t expect to just leave without them coming after their money

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That’s between you and the IRS, not you and Deloitte.

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Take a leave of absence

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I haven’t seen or heard any success stories in that regard. I’d plan on paying it.

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You're not going to win. You will be in violation of your contract. Read what it says will happen if you don't pay it back.

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I left weeks before the 2 year mark and they still hunted me down for it the day after I left. Godspeed my friend

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Yeah M1 is correct - I had to pay back 50%, they didn’t prorated on a daily basis or anything

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Did you ask your new job to cover the cost of a paying back this sign on? Yes deloitte will come after you to collect

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I literally just paid mine back 🤣. You agreed to pay it back if you left. It was worth it for me to have my sanity back.

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My SO left Deloitte a few years ago for law school and got one of her partners to get it waived, but I think that was mostly because she was leaving for a completely different industry.

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Also Uncle D will drop in her DMs once she posts on LI she passed the bar.

Take the L and move on. Unfortunately you won’t win this battle.

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I would hang around until they get rid of you. You only are required to pay it back if you leave on your terms. Also, if you don’t it may go to collections it may not but you will be blacklisted from working at D

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I don’t think I’d want to go to war with Deloitte lol pay it back and be done

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If it’s as bad as you say, just pay the signing bonus back and enjoy your mental health. If you stayed over a year you just have to pay back half anyway.

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You were forced to leave D? Does that mean D laid you off?

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People leave projects all the time.

What happens if they just… don’t pay it? They come after for her in collections? Not eligible for rehire?

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Collections

The upside is you only owe half of it back if you’ve been here longer then 1 yr but less then 2

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I might be there with you lol

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Yea I'm pay back some of whatever I owe I'm leaving close to 18 months in

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I never had to pay mine back. I left and they didn’t dare

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I will

Thank you

Go on undefined sick leave immediately if they fire you, they will have to pay double the bonus

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Hey OP, same boat as you, but in UK so we don’t get sign on bonuses.

Have you already resigned? What happened? I’ve been told here that if you’re wanting to leave for this reason you can escalate it to your Op Unit Lead and tell them you want to change projects, is this not the case?

I appreciate how difficult the situation is. I’m alone on a project (essentially on a long-term secondment) that I have no prior experience in the type of work and I don’t like the work at all, but my Lead literally told the client “They can have me as long as they want me”. I’ve been staffed on this for 1 year + and no end in site. Basically the client likes me and no one else can be arsed to work with this client.

Seems like you can email other M/SM’s every week trying to introduce yourself and get staffed on their projects but they’ll tell you there’s nothing available, that they have to prioritise their own C’s getting staffed first before they even consider helping you, and to keep trying. At what point did you say, Hey, you know what, Deloitte just isn’t working out ?

D6: why don’t you talk to your coach about it. Worst case, you can reduce your quality of work to try to have the client want you out.

Take a leave of absence/sick leave from a medical practitioner for the duration.
If you’re set on leaving and If you’re able to demonstrate that work has been the cause of medical issues, (would need some good evidence of this), then you may get it waived but you need to research first

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