Can you call your clients and let them know you're leaving? If the boss tried to give you shit for that, you'd clearly win that one. Also, I wonder if it's worth going after your boss' license for setting up a situation where you're not given a chance to terminate. That's really unethical.
And yeah, I'd try the unemployment angle. You normally don't get it if you're terminated with cause, but it's highly likely they'd either find it to be retaliation since you were fired after resigning, or the job wouldn't be able to produce any sort of credible information, in which case you get unemployment if the job can't prove it was with cause. This is an at-will state, but they still have to prove that they have a written procedure in place for getting rid of people, and that they followed it, and that you were treated fairly just like everyone else there.
When I was fired on the grounds of turning in a progress note late (when it was actually retaliation for refusing to falsify records, turning my boss into the state for related sketchy stuff, etc.), I filed for unemployment, then got a letter saying the employer was contesting it on the grounds that they said I was fired with cause. All I had to do is call the number on the letter, they connected me with the attorney general person who handles this stuff, and I faxed them the stuff that said I was fired for turning in a progress note late, along with the home phone numbers of several coworkers who would attest that all of them turn in progress notes late all the freakin time. They sent a request to the employer to produce the written policy, the documentation of the steps they'd followed in disciplining me, and various other stuff. Employer didn't respond. BTW, I got to keep collecting while all this was going on and just had to sign a thing saying I'd owe it back if they determined I'd been fired with cause.
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Date: 2009-03-28 10:05 pm (UTC)And yeah, I'd try the unemployment angle. You normally don't get it if you're terminated with cause, but it's highly likely they'd either find it to be retaliation since you were fired after resigning, or the job wouldn't be able to produce any sort of credible information, in which case you get unemployment if the job can't prove it was with cause. This is an at-will state, but they still have to prove that they have a written procedure in place for getting rid of people, and that they followed it, and that you were treated fairly just like everyone else there.
When I was fired on the grounds of turning in a progress note late (when it was actually retaliation for refusing to falsify records, turning my boss into the state for related sketchy stuff, etc.), I filed for unemployment, then got a letter saying the employer was contesting it on the grounds that they said I was fired with cause. All I had to do is call the number on the letter, they connected me with the attorney general person who handles this stuff, and I faxed them the stuff that said I was fired for turning in a progress note late, along with the home phone numbers of several coworkers who would attest that all of them turn in progress notes late all the freakin time. They sent a request to the employer to produce the written policy, the documentation of the steps they'd followed in disciplining me, and various other stuff. Employer didn't respond. BTW, I got to keep collecting while all this was going on and just had to sign a thing saying I'd owe it back if they determined I'd been fired with cause.