Wrongful termination or not?

[tinc]

I was fired on 1/13/06 because my manager said that I was making too many mistakes for a "senior reconciler" and that she had warned me several times. This was a lie but of course I have no proof other than my word. She told HR that she warned me verbally in 2004. We talked on the date in reference but at no time did she tell me that it was a verbal warning. In Sept. 2005 when she did my review it was a character assisnation and contained lies and innuendos. It had little to do with my job performance. She told me that she would do another one at year end. She did but it was more of the same. I had made some careless errors because I failed to attach all documents to one reconcilement in particular and I inadvertently attached the wrong document to another one but it was not anything that could not have been corrected. She came into the job and her first priority after getting there was to get rid of our supervisor at the time, which she did. Not the way she wanted because another dept. saw how the supervisor was treated and offered her a position in their dept. Then she proceeded to terminate two other employees because she decided that their jobs had been eliminated. They were not. The titles were changed so that she could hire new people. Once she was rid of them she started on me. I had been with the company almost 8 years and reconcilements that she had previously signed off on and by doing so said they were correct, she decided in Jan. that I didn't attach all that was needed to be attached. When I told her that I had attached everything that I had she said that I should have looked for more. There is a pattern here. She can't be in control at home so she is out of control on the job. Do I have any recourse? I have been disqualified from drawing unemployment because of the firing and I am having no luck finding a job. I don't want the job back. I just want to be able to draw unemployment to assist with my bills until I can obtain a job.

tinc

[cbg]

No, this does not even come into the same ballpark as a wrongful termination.

Whether you are eligible for unemployment is up to the state, not your employer.

[tinc]

Thank you for your reply. I am sorry for my ignorance of the laws but at the age of 53 and having worked since I was 16, I have never been fired before.
I knew that unemployment was up to the state but they rely on what the employer says so that was the reason I was disqualifed. So now I am looking for work out there with younger people with degrees and with no degree and no marketable skills it is not that easy. Thanks again.

[cbg]

They don't listen solely to the employer; in fact, the bias is if anything in favor of the employee. The employer must have made a pretty good case if your benefits were declined.