Taking unpaid vacation

[movingtrustates]

I was let go few days ago. so i did file for unemployment today.
I wasnt really scared to lose the job. I didnt want to lose unemployment in case they wouldnt take me back when i was back from vacation. It takes time to find another job.

thanks to everyone for the replies.

and BTW i was fired days before i told my boss i was going to quit.
i hope that wont affect the approval of unemployment benefits.

[bighusker]

Your employer sucks...I've never had a job that gave out less than 3 weeks of pto and nobody has ever cared if you take it in the first year. Even my wife's crappy employer let her take 2 weeks unpaid vacation when we got married (and that was after being on medical leave for 6 weeks). 8 months without time off isn't reasonable for most jobs...it's not something I'd put up with.


Their loss...it sounds like a crap job anyway

[Vasily]

Originally Posted by movingtrustates

and BTW i was fired days before i told my boss i was going to quit.
i hope that wont affect the approval of unemployment benefits.

If you were fired anyway, why tell your boss you were going to quit? An employer can challenge someone's claim to unemployment benefits -- and ticking off the boss before they're approved probably isn't the best strategy. But if it was a verbal communication, he/she has no proof of it. Hopefully it will go well for you, unemployment was the only thing that kept me going when I was laid off after the 2008 financial disaster.