So, I finally had my interview to determine if I was eligible to receive unemployment.  On the line was the Unemployment Commission person, and a woman who worked in the office for my former employer.  I was shocked at first by the fact that an office worker handled my case.  I worked in a warehouse and there were supervisors there who knew me and about my work, but they used someone who knew nothing about me.  The second shocker was even worse however.

    In the past year my company had went back to a location it had left before because the money was no good.  They decided to go back, and the money was no better, but the warehouse was even more strict.  As gas prices got worse, they got even more strict (to the point of having no common sense at all).  As a result, warehouse managers left, and to put it in perspectives, Mexicans quit or went back to the old location.  Eventually the best supervisor they had quit and the regional manager was fired.  The new regional manager was an ASSHOLE named John, who used to work for the warehouse in question.

    The phone interview starts with the office employee giving the company's side of the story, and wow, it was a story.  I apparently had been removed from the other job sites because I couldn't do the job, and had been written up numerous times (about 7 or 8) in about a month and a half for reasons ranging from working too slow, to making mistakes, to tardiness.   Not only had I been written up, but I had refused to sign the paperwork.  I texted my former supervisor to let him know how dirty the regional manager was and my old partner at work told me that some of the supervisors had heard how I had tried to get unemployment, and the regional manager told them how he had 'messed that up good'. 

    The unemployment person asked me if I knew about these write-ups, to which I truthfully stated I hadn't.  I then explained that I also had never been removed from the other job sites.  I had to leave one because they started doing background checks, and I left the other to return to the job site that ended up getting me fired.  I didn't mention that I wasn't slow or stupid, and that the company had a practice of taking its 'best workers' and moving them to whatever new project they decided to start up, to impress the customer.

    The office worker acted like she couldn't hear what I was saying (I was on a land line and the unemployment deputy heard me fine, and kept relaying what I said), and said "I said what I had to say.  I'll appeal it if I have to."  It seemed like the unemployment person understood what was going on, and that my old employer just wanted to make it so they wouldn't have to pay.  This seemed evident by the fact that the office worker spoke for about twice as long as I did, and I wasn't asked many questions. 
    

    A few days later, I received a letter telling me I was qualified for unemployment because I was fired for making a mistake on my paperwork, and not for misconduct.  I check my bank account and I had a $513 unemployment deposit for back pay minus taxes.  I'm still waiting to find out my old employer filed a review, but for now, I have my bills payed for another month and I'm well on my way to working at a shipyard making 50% more money than I used to.  I hope the company fires the regional manager for losing money and business, and I wonder if I should call my lawyer to sue for fraud, since the regional manager wrote me up and wrote that I refused to sign.  I mean really, why would the regional manager, whom I only saw once or twice a day briefly, write me up, and not an immediate supervisor who dealt with me all day, every day.  And what company writes someone up 7 or more times in a month and lets them keep working, when their own policies say that a third write-up in 6 months is grounds for termination.  Some people are just ASSHOLES, and deserve it when they burn in Hell for their treatment of people while on Earth.