As one who is unemployed now, I have seen both sides of this. When working at my last company I was able to deflect unemployed claims by offering the guy we wanted to fire a another job in the company and of course with a lot less pay. Most guys are to manly to do this, say fudge it and leave. We win all appeals.
Now that I am on the unemployed side I will just say you (I) feel like a failure, I have sent well over 100 resumes and only had about 5 interviews and three of those were a waste of time. Of course I thinks its harder right now because its winter and I'm stuck inside on most days, but my house is overly clean. On the bright side (if there is one) with Unemployment-Military retirement and umpiring money financially we have not missed out on anything.
For those of you who have met my wife you now understand why she is the brains and the beauty of the family. If we had to we could live just off her job.
Yes, there are jobs out there, which puts me in a quandary, most of them are paying less than what I make on just unemployment.
But overall for me its 
But there aren't two sides.
Would you really claim unemployment from a job if your job was picking up tin cans on the road and turning them in for a nickel each to the scrap yard? Would you sue the scrapyard for unemployment benefits if they no longer accepted tin cans?
This chick was never an employee in any way, shape or form. She set her own hours, could refuse to come in if she wanted to, and could stop reading at any point. No quotas, no regulations, nothing. I paid her 20 cents for every three-paragraph document she read over. I had people reading thousands per month because they wanted the money. She'd come in, read 40 or 50 (takes about a minute to read each one) and take off. Her highest month I think she made $148. She usually made $70 or $80 a month.
If I take federal, state, SS and UI out of that, she's gonna bring home $4. Wouldn't have ever been able to get anybody to do it.
Would you honestly feel right about claiming unemployment from something like that?
If she'd been a real employee, if I'd laid her off or anything like that I would gladly agree to it. I've never denied a claim for anybody before that I can remember, even if their departure was sort of their fault -- or theirs entirely.
But now I've got the stupid DoL snooping around and looking at everything because this stupid woman thinks she's owed $285 a week for a job she usually made $20 a week or less.
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