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Originally Posted by Tried2long
Can you apply for unemployment?
I think managers allow certain people to get away with things because either the employee is related to someone important....no matter how far you have to stretch the relation, or someone owes a favor to somebody else and they overlook whatever they do just short of a serious criminal act (but they'd probably put up bail for them). It's sick if you ask me.
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I can try to file for unemployment but in my state, the requirements to qualify is ridiculous. First, you have to provide a record of employment for the entire previous year, that includes your IRS Tax return so that the county office can see if your income from the past year meets their requirement for unemployment.
Then, if you do meet their income requirement from the previous year (they look at your gross income vs. what you netted), and you do qualify for unemployment, you have to do an interview in person with a county worker to explain why you're filing for unemployment.
Then the county will contact your former employer, get their side, and then decide whether or not to provide you with unemployment. This process can take up to two months or so to complete. So, it's not even realistically feasible for me to pursue. I could probably find another temp job within 2 months through another agency, or at least a retail or restaurant job.
I do agree with you that managers let certain employees get away with bad behavior, for whatever reason it is, but it does happen. I was definitely "forced" out of my temp job by the toxic work culture and behavior from my supervisor, the other temp, and the two full-time employees I had to work with.
The supervisor couldn't say I did a bad job, because I forwarded all of the tech writing I did to the two account managers and the complaint report to cover all of my bases. So, he tried insinuate to the temp agency branch manager (accord. to what she said to me today) that i started an argument with the other temp, which was a blatant lie because that's not even what happened -- the other temp yelled at me, and my response was to ask him not to yell at me, which isn't starting an argument, but is responding to being yelled at. It's all so ridiculous.
I can always post-pone my bills until next month (except for rent), go to food shelves (I still won't qualify for federal food stamps, again, because the county here looks at the past two months of your gross income, not at the fact that you aren't working when you apply for federal food stamps, so they can deny you. The federal income limit is something like $1200 so if you gross more than that a month, you don't qualify).