I lost my job about a week ago. I honestly am scared about this situation. After being working for a "small" company (supposedly)for about 4 years I was fired. The reason that the CEO gave me was that I always was complaining about my situation in the company. That "I was the cause of a negavite work environment to my use of negative language, because I was complaining". He told me he "had interviewed my co-workers and only one liked working with me", (something that it is not true). "I was always thinking about me and it was all drama all the time". I spoke with co-workers who knew nothing of questions concerning me. I got along very well with co-workers, never a complaint from any client(s), I worked relentlessly to help the office even working through my lunch time. The situation that ended me being fired was because I was working alone in the office as Substance Abuse Counselor and while doing assessments I was answering the phone just to not miss any call or possible clients because I didn't have an admin person all the time. That caused me that sometimes ended up going to take my lunch time after 11am and I asked if we could change the time to 11:30 or 12pm so I will not loose my lunch hour because he treathen us that if we were going to lunch and we were not at the office by 12pm he will fired us. He didnt' want to give me a letter with the reason. However he after that offered me a contract to work with him as contract counselor. He also said that he wasn't interested in me to receive the unemployment benefits. What can I do? I was a full time employee at the time. He however said that didn't have any complains about my professionalism at work, my work ethics or my hard work.

File for Unemployment if it is declined appeal it. Contact an attorney to see if this contract offer that led to the fireing is legal.
JoeC

You can file for UC but if you were offered employment and turned it down, your chances of qualifying are slim. Still doesn't hurt to apply.

You can file for UC but if you were offered employment and turned it down, your chances of qualifying are slim. Still doesn't hurt to apply.

Actually, who asked me if I wanted to come back again was my supervisor. The CEO said that if that is what he wants then he will offer me a contract because they don't have anyone to do the job that I was doing for Hispanics clients. Then he said that my inmediate supervisor can take care of it and stablish the contract but not him. I haven't decline but after being treated the way he did I don't think that I will come back again

I was granted the unemployment benefits. However he has obviously the right to appleal. Now the ESC concluded in the determination that: The employer has failed to submit detailed and sufficient information to substantiate its assertions againts claimant (me). Based on the foregoing, it is concluded claimant was discharged but not for misconduct or substantial fault connected with the work.

My questions are:
1. What type of documentation does he as employer has to present?
2. Is it good a document that is a copy of the original just because the office is a "paperfree" office?
3. We used to use an electronical stamp with our signature in the documents that we produce for the client's file. Can he use my stamp after being fired to produce a document with an amonestation or a written memo with the stamp of my signature on it?
4. What are my options?
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After being granted the benefits now I just received a letter stablishing the date and time of the phone hearing for 6/10/08 @ 10 am. The problem is that I will be out of the state for vacations that I already booked since March 2008. The paperwork says that I should bring evidence. What type of evidence will I need? Please give me some ideas or good advice. Ahhhhh he put his daughter to do the appleal and she just started the job about a month before I was fired. Thanks

What options are you looking for? Until or unless the employer decides to appeal, the ball game is over.

What options are you looking for? Until or unless the employer decides to appeal, the ball game is over.

I know for sure that he will appeal b/c he said to me that he wasn't interested in me having the benefits.

When you receive the notice of appeal, come back. Just because he said that doesn't mean he will follow through.