I am about to be fired at work. Should I resign or get fired and try for unemployment?

Question

I'm being recommended for firing due to inappropriate behavior. Either way I would need to explain why I left to my next potential employer. But if I quit---no way on unemployment money. I may still not if I'm fired for gross misconduct, which is broadly interpreted. It would be nice to leave on my own terms than be humiliated again. Still in a stupor over this...please help with sound advice.

Answer 1

You definitely don't want that on your record, though it may be unavoidable. Potential new employers may well call your old employer anyway. And it's not likely you'd get away with hiding who you worked for.

If I were you, I'd forget about unemployment and quit before getting fired. Before leaving though, figure which person(s) there would give you the best reference, and get their okay to name them as refs for new employers.

Get your resume polished up quickly. And get phoning around to find that next job ASAP -- potential employers think you're more attractive if they know you have a job and are just looking around.

Answer 2

I work for a State Agency that pays out unemployment, and I can say with almost certainty that you will NOT get unemployment, unless you can convince a hearing officer that you were set up or something like that. Misconduct in the work place is valid grounds for firing someone, especially if it is in your company handbook.
Don't get fired, accept that you made a mistake, and learn from it. Do your own personal grieving and then move on. I'm sorry you are losing your job, it sounds like you really don't want to go. As far as what to put on your next application when they ask you "Reason for Leaving", I would put "Seeking better employment". It's not a lie, because you really don't want to stay somewhere where you're not wanted and appreciated for what you're really about. It worked for me.

Answer 3

Let's sort out UI from what you tell your next employer. First, the UI issue - if you quit, you're usually out of luck unless you have a really compelling reason. If you are terminated for cause, you are also typically out of luck if the company has a clear policy statement and can prove that you violated it. Chances are slim either way that you'll collect UI.

Most employers these days do not provide the reason why an employee left their company because there is liability associated with that. What they will probably do is to verify your employment date, title, and rate of pay. The exception is if you get a job that requires a background check - you have to sign a consent form, which gives the background check company some exemption from liability. They may turn up the fact that you are not eligible for rehire.

The statement to give to a prospective employer is along the lines of "I didn't feel that my goals were aligned with the goals of ABC Company." True enough.....

Answer 4

Either way, I don't think you will get unemployment. When you apply for another job, just tell them you made a mistake, and that you will be careful not to do it again, or you could not mention it and hope they don't find out. Most previous employers are reluctant to give out more information than confirming the date hired and the date you left.

Answer 5

I believe if u resign or are sacked u will receive, half benefit for 3 months, i may be right or wrong.Check with the citizens advice bureau or the dss.Why not beg for not 2 be sacked, take a week suspension.
If not start being self-employed for a few weeks after resigning or sacking.Be a crap salesman and dont hit targets, they will pay u off, not sacked, just paid off.or shut the business down, the benefits agency cant asked why u shut the business down, u cant sack urself.I was a credit agent and it didnt pay, i shut it down and signed on.LOL.

Answer 6

It seems such as you have carried out extra analyze than lots of the folk who might attempt to respond to right here (alongside with me.) In California you do no longer assemble unemployment once you're the two fired or stop, yet i've got customary people who've stop jobs, then gotten yet another pastime, then been laid off the different pastime. At that element they qualify for unemployment! i do no longer understand in the adventure that your husband knows every physique who might hire him for a week, then lay him off, yet while he does, possibly that should help. (It would not screw over the 2d company.) i've got no longer tried this and that i do no longer understand the way it somewhat works in Utah, yet for what its properly worth...

Answer 7

Resigning is always better than being fired. Prospective employers aren't supposed to find out anything about your previous job, except that you actually worked there.
I told all my prospective employers that I left my job for "professional growth", and I never had a problem finding a new job.

Answer 8

It depends on the level of inappropriate-ness, If you did something absolutely unexcusable, quit. It may prohibit you from unemployment but you may find another job easier. Otherwise you should see where the road leads and let what happens happen.

Answer 9

I work in HR and have been to many unemployement trials.

For example and employee was sent to treatment after admitting a drug problem, the stipulation was that upon return said employee was to be subjected to drug testing.

Upon return employee failed the drug test.

They won unemployment. I think it matters where you live.. but I have seen it time and time again where the employee quit and was still rewarded benefits.

Answer 10

You might want to check on what stipulations your state has for unemployment before you decide anything. I know some states will not give unemployment if you were fired for inappropriate behavior. Google your state and search their unemployment guidelines. Goodluck.