Originally Posted by sdsearch

There are plenty of datapoints, but only for people who didn't call. I don't know if anyone besides you called, and so probably only you can determine whether that call will affect whether you get the bonus. I'm pretty sure everyone who applied and reported here applied on line (or on an airplane or at an airport), not over the phone.

It might depend on whether you're "instantly" approved (ie, by a computer), or whether a human has to approve it, and if the latter, on whether that human (who may be in a different department) has access to your call log.

So either just try it and live with any consequences, or don't try it and take it as a lesson learned to always research or ask such things elsewhere rather than asking the company who will later make the decision.