I was terminated from my job without notice. Im trainning at a new job, should i still seek unemployment?

Question

I worked for food lion and their inventory came up $90,000 short, so they hired loss prevention investigators to interview all employees. For some reason I got suspended. When I went to give them my letter of resignation (2 weeks later) they told me I had been terminated. I then applyed for a new job and I started training this week. Should i still seek unemployment from food lion? Since i won't be getting paid for a few weeks. Im so broke.

Answer 1

Sounds fishy ... They said they suspended you ... You went back 2 weeks later to turn in resignation and they said you had been terminated without you knowing ...

So go to unemployment, ask questions and see if you can collect funds from the time they suspended you to the time you got hired at a new job ... You should get some $$ ...

Hope this helps ...

Answer 2

If you are employed at a new job, then you can't get unemployment benefits. Ask your new employer to give you a draw on wages earned. If you do apply and get caught lying on your unemployment application you would have to pay back all money received plus additional penalties. Even when you collect unemployment you have to be unemployed for a week before you can apply, then you have a waiting period, so you still wouldn't get money now.

Answer 3

In many states, if you are terminated for cause you are ineligible for unemployment. In many states, if you have been hired for a new job (whether you are being paid or not), you are ineligible for unemployment. You should contact your local unemployment office by phone or internet to determine if you are eligible to make a claim.

Keep in mind that the internet, while useful, is not the best place to obtain legal advice,

Congratulations on getting a new job so quickly, by the way.

Answer 4

You can file - however, if you were suspended they should have notified you that you had been terminated. I'm assuming this was a suspension without pay - so you probably can't even seek a severance pay. I wouldn't expect anything from unemployment, because being terminated and under the conditions that it sounds like you were fired for, you probably won't see any money from them either.

Answer 5

Dude I was in the same exact position as you 2 months ago, worked in an office. Office manager was a real BI*CH etc.. Heres my story, listen up. The day I walked in to give my 2 week notice, I heard that I was going to be fired in a couple of days. So Instead of quiting, I did a half *** job the rest of my time there, real relaxed... etc..And also since they fired me, I applied for un-employment. For me it was benificial, because I needed to bein my Entrepreneurship anyway (I want to be an entrepreneur.) In your case, maybe i'd just ride it out, You've already got a job lined up, with nothing to lose. I'd probably show up to work because I can't have any gaps in my income. And if that manager wants to be a BI*CH than just GO OUT WITH A BANG!! haha make a huge scene and storm out of there. Regardless, I suggust you read this book "Rich dad, Poor dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki It is a book on money, and the way it works. It really showed me that I was living in the rat race, you are too. You & I are slaves to money, we live pay check, to pay check. And nothing will change if we change nothing. I have decided to take a risk and give it a try, I rounded up a bunch of Ideas, and am now executing them. I am seriously making progress. I've got 12 vending machines that currently generate money for me, I am new at it so I don't really know what to expect. But so far its really close to what I was making at work. And that is nothing! i've got tons of other ideas that I have lined up for execution. And this vending thing takes up none of my time, maybe 1 hour a month. The idea is to plant little money tree's and water the everyday. The idea being the seed, the execution being the watering. The tree being the money generating process. Read the book man, it cost 8 bucks and they sell it everywhere. I bought mine at a Fedex/Kinkos store. Good luck, go out with a bang dude!

Answer 6

This is an excellent question... since you're technically training without a paycheck, it would seem reasonable that you might qualify. By all means, check into it... but I'll bet they have some kind of rule that you'd have to be without a paycheck for so many weeks... that's probably the only thing that will stop you. Good luck.

Answer 7

Under those circumstances, your chance of drawing unemployment as as good as Bush becoming a member of Mensa.

Answer 8

no, because you all ready have a new job, and by the time you would get unemployment, you would be getting paid!

Answer 9

GO FOR IT!