Just got fired

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: isekii
what if you quit.
can you collect unemployment then ?

No.

 

[MaxDepth]

Go to the unemployment office and find out first hand. Then come back and educate us, please.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Most states will grant unemployment unless the employer contests it.
If contested you can appeal for a hearing - usually takes 3-4 weeks.
If you succeed in the hearing, the back checks will be awarded, otherwise see below.

When contested by the employer, there is usually a 8-12 week delay in benefits, then a check will be available.

 

[maddogchen]

hope you find a new and better job soon.

Good luck!

 

[TheSlamma]

Yep, the last DotCom place I was at. I knew they were closing shop so I had setup another job already... I worked the night shift at the DotCom and was going to be on days at the new job so I was playing with the idea of doing 2 jobs at once.... They laid me off instead... when I think about how worn out I would have been, I was better off just doing the one and getting 1 month of severence instead

 

[Patt]

Oooh ... this thread has me fantasizing about being laid off or downsized with a severance ... never going to happen here though, especially with my not-so-spectacular colleagues about. I honestly don't think, short of sucker-punching my supervisor or the vice-president of the company, that I could get them to fire me

 

[Mxylplyx]

Originally posted by: Patt
Oooh ... this thread has me fantasizing about being laid off or downsized with a severance ... never going to happen here though, especially with my not-so-spectacular colleagues about. I honestly don't think, short of sucker-punching my supervisor or the vice-president of the company, that I could get them to fire me

While you might be right, those are the famous last words by so many people who find themselves suddenly unemployed.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: MrLee
How does someone suck at their job? It is clear to them what they are to be doing before they are hired and if it isn't something they feel they can hendle shouldn't they just not take the job? I've never been fired for incompetence. I don't think I ever will be. That's just wierd.

I was a photolithography engineer in a semiconductor plant.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I was fired (relatively speaking) from a job that you can't get fired from. I got kicked out of the Navy with an honorable discharge on the new PRT rules. I could have fought it but I was tired of it at that point. I now work for the state and have 80% disability through the VA. An ex E6 making E4 pay without the BS.

EDIT: On a side note, I do miss the Navy sometimes. The civilian world is just crazy. I've been out for over a year, and I still don't think I'm used to it yet.

chocobos are survivors dude.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: MrLee
How does someone suck at their job? It is clear to them what they are to be doing before they are hired and if it isn't something they feel they can hendle shouldn't they just not take the job? I've never been fired for incompetence. I don't think I ever will be. That's just wierd.

I was a photolithography engineer in a semiconductor plant.

And you weren't good enough for the job?

 

[GregGreen]

A couple years ago, I was a banquet server at a private restaurant around here. I decided I wasn't going to show up for the banquet that was scheduled for 10am (I was really hungover at 9am when I should have been getting up). I didn't show up. They called me all day, saying I should come in and finally called and said "You come in and work this cooking shift for me, and you can still have your job." I didnt come in and it was a great decision. For a while, money was tight but in the end it was a somewhat good decision. I have managed to idealize the situation to think that it was a pretty good job, but it really wasn't. Coming home from your job as a waiter/cook/busboy/bartender pissed off beyond all believe every night isn't a way to live....

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

EDIT: On a side note, I do miss the Navy sometimes. The civilian world is just crazy. I've been out for over a year, and I still don't think I'm used to it yet.

All a matter of perspective. I don't think I could hack it in the military. But the strength of structure in a given community (military, civilian, city, church, hippie commune, etc) is often a metaphor for the strength of the conscious mind over the unconscious. The military is all conscious, no unconscious. In that sense, the civilian world literally represents insanity compared to what you got used to in the military. To you, the civilian world is as a community of schizophrenics would be to civilians.


OP, glad to hear you've got an excuse to look for greener pastures.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: GregGreen
Coming home from your job as a waiter/cook/busboy/bartender pissed off beyond all believe every night isn't a way to live....

hehe

former waiter here, I work at a call center now

I miss waiting tables

at least with waiting tables, people can only get so pissed off at you

hearing some of the stuff that people say when they can't see you makes me