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  1. #1
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    Default Waiting on Determination for UI Benefits

    My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: California

    Hi, I am looking for some sound advice; I lost my job when I was verbally abused by a violent co-worker--I was employed for a few years, and this person subjected me to sometimes viciously horrible abuse and treatment, leaving me feeling upset, hurt, in tears, etc. horribly cutting tone of voice, just grossly improper for any kind of place. I reported them once or twice, and supposedly they were formally written up.

    Anyway, there was a point where I felt I had been treated like garbage and castrated by this person for the last time, and left work one day, upset, and incoherent. I went back a few hours later, and this person had told the boss I had 'quit', and the boss seemed to take their word for it. They basically told me I had been fired, but rewrote it claiming it was a 'voluntary walk-off'. This was total bs. I worked for these people for years, over two years; still, I accepted it and left, fearing my safety.

    I applied for UI benefits and received my award letter, then the interview letter, but I am not sure how lucky I will be with this. I am looking actively for jobs, but UI would help me a lot. I am worried my former employers will do anything they can to avoid this from happening. What can I do to give myself the best chance of success with receving benefits? I was a great employee, and really was treated so bad sometimes it was beyond improper.

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    Exclamation Re: Waiting on Determination for UI Benefits

    If your former employer tells the EDD you were fired after walking off the job they most probably win and your claim will be denied.

    You even wrote here...
    "and left work one day, upset, and incoherent. I went back a few hours later"
    Without your bosses permission to leave then it seems to me that you abandoned your job.

    Do you have any proof that something else took place?

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    Default Re: Waiting on Determination for UI Benefits

    Yes, I do. She wrote up the employee who had been verbally abusing me, and I did not 'abandon' my job, I simply said I was upset and told one of the supervisors what had happened. She said to come back later and talk to the boss. Basically when I did that, this is when they said my job had been terminated. I feel as though I deserve UI benefits; this employee was a drug addicted, alcoholic wacko who walked off the job MANY TIMES due to hangovers and highs on whatever else knows what, AND REPEATEDLY GOT AWAY WITH IT. All I can say is that I enjoyed the job but it was too hostile with this woman to endure and I had to leave for safety reasons. Isn't that worth anything? Plus her being written up?

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    Default Re: Waiting on Determination for UI Benefits

    now i have received a new notice of a face to face interview a few days after my telephone interview; i'm not sure how to interpret this; i have been on interviews, and nothing has worked out so far, am so tired, depressed, and if this crazy horrible drunk had not been at my job i would still be there

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