Better to quit or be fired

[9064]

Quick ? Better to quit or be fired. If I let them fire me I can collect unemployment.. but how to explain to next employer? Correctional nurses are not exactly in demand by the nice, quiet doctor's offices I really want to work in, so not being a successful one isn't exactly going to harm me, but staying more than 6 months will. (So I am told.)

If you read my other posts you will see how impossible my situation is. It is making me physically ill & I can sure see the writing on the wall.

Love this forum!

[prisonnurse02]

Quit and move on. They will have a reason for firing you and you still won't be able to get unemployment.

[ddunnrn]

Where did you get the idea that you can collect unemployment if you are fired? It all depends on what they fired you for, and whether the unemployment bureaucrat believes you, or your employer. In any event, it is not worth your mental or physical sanity to stay in a toxic situation.

Good luck

Dave Dunn, RN

PS I recently got fired for trumped-up reasons. It happens all the time, which is one of the reasons nurses should be unionized.

[9064]

I gave notice and for the first night in a long time, I slept so well. What really surprised me was that some of the people who were the meanest to me came up to me on the side & said how much they wanted to quit. Thank god I quit before I became like that.

[Multicollinearity, BSN, RN]

In future job interviews you could cite safety concerns about the prison environment and bypass all of the other reasons. Most interviewers would accept this because they could not imagine working in a prison with violent offenders.

[gettingbsn2msn, MSN, RN]

If you are in my state you will not get unemployment anyway. I really do not know why they even talk about it here, no one gets it. I was let go from my hospital reason. I still do not even know why. I got zero unemployment. They claimed I had 3 write ups over the years in my employment file. A copy of these write ups was sent to the labor board and of course, no unemployment. I know of zero people at my former hospital that never received a write up. I say do not make a choice regarding unemployment or not because you may not see the checks anyway.

[caliotter3]

For all the people who make statements that you can quit or be fired and still draw unemployment, I wish they had spoken up for me when I attempted to get unemployment. The only reasons a person can get unemployment without going through all the levels of the underworld in my state are for a legitimate layoff. Quit, no unemployment, fired, no unemployment, not given work by the employer, otherwise known as a constructive termination, no unemployment. What am I missing here?