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MN will put you through the ringer on a requalification for existing benefits. The standard to return collecting is much higher than initial benefits claims since you have moved the bar on suitability and performance by accepting this position. Sometimes its easier to purge the disqualification that it is to try going back on unemplyment using the old claim. You also give your original employer a second crack at challenging your benefits since they are the primary charged payer.
OP, you need new friends too, if they are helping you to figure out how to get on unemployment benefits and not how to go out and interview for other jobs.
You sound like my lazy BIL. Before the recession, he was a professional UB collector. He would find a job just to work long enough to go back onto unemployment. He did this for years. The extension in the benefits a few years back is what did him in. He thought that train was going to ride forever. Now he can't find a job, so he's doing handyman odd jobs and getting involved in get rich quick type schemes. The market ended his UB gravy train though.
If you really would rather get into a new position in a decent work environment, then you need to reconsider your strategy.
I thought that you had to get laid off and not fired to get unemployment benefits !
Common misconception. You can get unemployment if you quit or if you get fired. The ability is based on the facts as it pertains to your state's unemployment regulations. If you read the unemployment sub-forum, you'll see many cases where a person was fired and was able to collect just like many collected when they quit. The biggest enemy of the worker is ignorance of the regulations and that causes claimants to be denied when they legally should have collected.
I was working my dream job for almost five years and thought I could stay there until I retired. But a new manager came in and laid off most of the old management team and I was out.
I got nervous and accepted the first job that was offered to me after being on jobless benefits for one month. What a terrible mistake. The new job is terrible and the boss yells at me all the time and uses many four letter words. I would like to quit but can't go back on jobless benefits if I quit.
I want to be fired but in such a way that I would be eligible for jobless benefits again. My friends tell me that I stop working hard or am involved in any misconduct I will be ineligible to go back on unemployment. They think the best way to get fired is to try hard to do a good job but complain to the next level boss about my supervisor. And if he does not do anything, then move up the chain of command and keep complaining. There are four levels above my supervisor.
They will call me a complainer and lay me off. But because I follow company procedure I will still be eligible for jobless benefits. What do you think?
I think people like you are the reason why this country is in a mess. Always looking for the easy way out and don't have any personal responsibility.
I blame the new boss for coming in and immediately firing everyone.
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