[quiescant_dodo]

If: 1. The company sent bonus emails in 2019 via email 2. The offending email was from '[e-mail]' (instead of 'goCLaddy.com')

would it change the legal perspective? I could totally see myself seeing such an email and making decisions based on the premise that I had additional income coming. I think I've read advice in the past that if a "reasonable person" would believe it, then it counts as an informal contract or something.

[otterley]

Yeah, promissory estoppel is a thing. It's not technically a contract, but it's equitable relief that might be available if there's reliance and no other remedy.