Isn't this unemployment insurance, if approved in this circumstance, only for the weeks of notice that were given that the claimant was not allowed to work? It's not, I believe, an entire claim you'd qualify up for, and even if you were, it isn't much anyway. It's not a career choice. What this poster is dealing with is a whole career choice, and how to word their resignation from this whole long time job. If it took nothing but this to get unemployment rolling, here'd be a lot of people giving those long notices, and spending their time doing very little during them. Even an employee friendly state like CA doesn't fully qualify quitters quite this easily. And whether it is or isn't, related to unemployment insurance, there is not one single mention in the original question about unemployment insurance. This is just a possibility I mentioned that could happen if the employee gives a lot of formal notice to the company. So why pound this one issue to pieces? If it becomes an issue, they can come back with more questions related to the topic.

