Party City, while short employment is reported to the govt' and to unemployment, so you have to report it, whether it was an hour, a day, or a week etc. They have to research why you left etc. sorry...it's just how it is. I know the frustration though. I was let go by an employer in August and have yet to receive unemployment benefits and I stopped filing for them after I was full time at a new job; so now they just dropped the case all together. It's all crazy stuff, and not even a govt' program.