
Quoting
chyvan
Because you're in GA, I'm going to say not that great, but you still need to try.
The employer saying one thing to you on your way out the door, and another thing to UI, doesn't mean anything as long as they've been consistent with what they said to the UI people from the beginning and can back it up, or you admitted to it.
As an example, a claimant from MA was "laid off and given a severance package." He thought he had his UI in the bag. The employer said they only gave him the severance package so that he'd quietly leave the building and that he was fired for discussing a patient with someone he had no business saying anything to (he was a nurse.) He was denied in the initial determination, and his protestations that he was laid off and had a severance to back it up, didn't make any difference.
Mind you, that he did win on appeal, but not because of the severance or laid off argument, but because the employer showed up with a hearsay witness. Neither the person he was discussing the patient with nor the other person that overheard the conversation and did the tattling were at the hearing, and the employer lost because they couldn't meet their burden of proof that he'd done anything wrong.