Can I’m resign my job at Wholefoods and still collect unemployment?
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This is a scammy company. Hired many people as regular then started the firing spree after the holidays. Unethical. Just call a holiday job a holiday job. But then there is the issue of paying all those folks unemployment for those lay offs. Can't have that.
also start talking about organizing. They will fire you for some trumped up charge. then you can sue too.
slip & fall. workman's comp. collect till you get laid off. look for work.
f*** the Tl on here..you brownnosed your way up the ladder but ya position might be next..ive seen em get wacked tons..especially bakery and grocery team leaders over the long time ive been with this company..
It all depends on where you're at in your life at the moment. Try looking for other jobs first. Even if it's just part time. Whatever cut you can take to get out, just get out.
I don't think quitting without a plan is a good idea. Look at it situationally.
Don't listen to the commentator, TL. He is just trying yo save his condescending ass. He doesn't care about yours.
It's very difficult to "get yourself fired" from a WFM. They will beat you like a gong in court if you are terminated for "performance". I've seen this time and time again. You will have a hell of a time trying to gather any meager unemployment benefits. A "legitimate" way to get fired, however, is purely political - say the word UNION. A lot. You'll be red flagged and you won't have to do much but wait. It may take longer than you like, but they'll come for you eventually. You're in luck, as the season of the witch hunt will be upon us soon, post holiday. Another culling of the herd coming. Any "trouble maker", or voice of dissidence will be targeted. All you got to do is start talking - and in court, talking doesn't really hold up as much as "performance". You gotta bluff them. It's a subtle thing. They'll try and nail you down for insubordination. Hold fast to the holy tenet of "Team Member Happiness", and "having a voice" - a key component in the "decentralized" leadership style that the company purports. Yeah, you gotta voice. Use it for your own ends. And remember, most of all...Have FUN.
Please quit. You are waste of company money. I have been with Wholefoods 12 years and need some kind of income. Our jobs may suck but it could be worse
Hahaha sounds like one of Dennis Berryman's bogus investigations.
If you are fired it may reflect poorly when trying to get a new job although legally Whole Foods is not allowed to comment on your work performance or separation. All they can do is state the dates of employment unless you give permission otherwise. If you quit however, you most likely will not get unemployment. If you wish to get fired and collect unemployment if you do so for "work performance" issues you will more than likely win unemployment should Whole Foods try and fight it since it's such a subjective thing. If you break policy then are fired, Whole Foods stands a much greater chance of winning an unemployment case against you should you seek to collect unemployment and they choose to fight it.
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Tell me about it! Morale is beyond horrible right now! Its intolerable. My question is: why does it "look worse to quit"? Do you mean for future employers to for WFM? I am wishing I had been offered severance and am stuck in a position I hate and was never trained to do or hired to do even. I want out. I just want to do it in the best possible way...if that is even possible
181804--do you see any benefit to quit or wait it out and be fired? sick of working on the Titanic
They just fired a few people on my team that had zero write-ups on their records. Leadership claimed they did a thorough investigation and had written statements from team members to prove their guilt but they did not speak to ANYONE on the team.
One of them had already put their two weeks in, but everyone thinks leadership fired this person because it looks worse for a team leader when someone quits/transfers out rather than gets fired for "work performance".
Morale is so incredibly low at my store at the moment.
I truly believe they are looking to fire people at this point and it's a lot easier than you'd believe. Recently a team member got fired for not putting out the correct sign for a product, three times. One write up. Then not wearing a cut glove? Final. Few more steps down the paper trail and you're as good as gone.