by Sarah
(Portland OR)
I worked at a call center for about 10 months in Portland OR and I was taken into a conference room by an operations manager, and only him, and told that I had the option to either be fired (no reason stated for being fired but he said in the current economy they can do whatever they want) and recieve a horrible reference or I could quit and recieve a good reference. They had cut my hours from full time to about 8-15 hours a week, but still had me show up everyday only to be told I wasn't needed and sent home 70% of the time. I believe they were trying to get me to not show up in order to fire me, but their attempt failed so I was given the aforementioned ultimatum. I collected about $2000 worth of unemployment benefits and now a year later the unemployment department is trying to retroactively deny me my benefits because I said I was laid off, when in actuality I was forced to quit. What's the difference? Can they do this? It seems the government is making profit off of this if I have to pay back the money with interest and penalties, so they can't really be objective on this issue.
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