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I was recently terminated from my position as a waitress (full-time, no benefits) at a local independently owned restaurant.
Here is what happened:
The host we have is a hair stylist by day. We've been joking around for awhile that he should cut my hair some slow Monday.
Well, that happened to be a few Mondays ago.
Yeah, extremely poor judgment on my part, to do that at work (even if we WERE outside). Another employee told the boss when he called the restaurant. Bossman came to the restaurant and promptly sent the host home, and told me to finish my shift and his wife (co-owner) would be calling me to let me know their decision.
I finished my shift. The next day, his wife called and terminated me.
My family seems to think that I can get unemployment based on the following facts:
- no customers in the restaurant
- none came in
- we were outside (though still on restaurant property)
- no supervisor/boss present at the time (I was seniormost person there at the time, besides a chef who speaks very little English)
- I clocked out
- other employees were present to handle a customer if one were to walk in
- we would have immediately stopped what we were doing had one walked in
- other employees have not been disciplined for texting, facebooking, reading, studying, etc. while ON the clock during non-busy times. They have been verbally reprimanded (don't do that!) but there has been no disciplinary action taken, warnings issued, etc.
I understand what I did was completely stupid, and I am not fighting my termination. I can see where my boss was coming from in deciding to terminate me.
Based on responses from another legal question forum and the urging of my family, I filed for unemployment and received my financial determination and began filing my claims.
Last week, I went in to the restaurant to pick up my final check and return their property, where the Bossman verbally accosted me, telling me that he would spend thousands in court fees to make sure I didn't get a penny and that I didn't deserve unemployment and I should stop milking the system or try getting a job and keeping it this time, and how dare I, etc. etc. etc. Apparently, he had just received the notification that I had applied for UE.
I kept my mouth shut except to tell him that I was no longer his employee and I didn't need to stand for him speaking to me that way, told them I just wanted my pay and I would get out. He then made me leave through the back door of the restaurant, saying that didn't want me to "make a scene" in the restaurant (I was crying by that point).
I have been hired at a new (awesome) job and will be starting on June 28, so this won't be an issue much longer.
I just checked the status of my unemployment claim and it says there is an issue with it; I assume it is my former employer contesting my claim.
What happens now?
I was recently terminated from my position as a waitress (full-time, no benefits) at a local independently owned restaurant.
Here is what happened:
The host we have is a hair stylist by day. We've been joking around for awhile that he should cut my hair some slow Monday.
Well, that happened to be a few Mondays ago.
Yeah, extremely poor judgment on my part, to do that at work (even if we WERE outside). Another employee told the boss when he called the restaurant. Bossman came to the restaurant and promptly sent the host home, and told me to finish my shift and his wife (co-owner) would be calling me to let me know their decision.
I finished my shift. The next day, his wife called and terminated me.
My family seems to think that I can get unemployment based on the following facts:
- no customers in the restaurant
- none came in
- we were outside (though still on restaurant property)
- no supervisor/boss present at the time (I was seniormost person there at the time, besides a chef who speaks very little English)
- I clocked out
- other employees were present to handle a customer if one were to walk in
- we would have immediately stopped what we were doing had one walked in
- other employees have not been disciplined for texting, facebooking, reading, studying, etc. while ON the clock during non-busy times. They have been verbally reprimanded (don't do that!) but there has been no disciplinary action taken, warnings issued, etc.
I understand what I did was completely stupid, and I am not fighting my termination. I can see where my boss was coming from in deciding to terminate me.
Based on responses from another legal question forum and the urging of my family, I filed for unemployment and received my financial determination and began filing my claims.
Last week, I went in to the restaurant to pick up my final check and return their property, where the Bossman verbally accosted me, telling me that he would spend thousands in court fees to make sure I didn't get a penny and that I didn't deserve unemployment and I should stop milking the system or try getting a job and keeping it this time, and how dare I, etc. etc. etc. Apparently, he had just received the notification that I had applied for UE.
I kept my mouth shut except to tell him that I was no longer his employee and I didn't need to stand for him speaking to me that way, told them I just wanted my pay and I would get out. He then made me leave through the back door of the restaurant, saying that didn't want me to "make a scene" in the restaurant (I was crying by that point).
I have been hired at a new (awesome) job and will be starting on June 28, so this won't be an issue much longer.
I just checked the status of my unemployment claim and it says there is an issue with it; I assume it is my former employer contesting my claim.
What happens now?
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