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And filing an unemployment claim, while refusing to cooperate with the initial unemployment fact finding process and screwing around waiting for the appeals hearing after a denial is about the worst piece of advice I could possibly come up with for anyone who ever happened to ask.
If this guy goes to this meeting with his employers and tells the truth, and this is a first event, and he is a valued employee, there is a dandy chance they'll let him go with a warning. Never do it again, okay? If he refuses to say anything, doesn't tell the truth, doesn't show contrition, acts like a legal expert smart **&^, it means he is 100%guaranteed going to get fired.
And then he files for unemployment, having lost a full time long term job for the remote possibility that out somewhere in the far off future, there is a miniscule chance he'll get approved for much smaller weekly benefit for no more than 6 months. Wow.
And I very strongly suspect that if he refuses to answer the unemployment office's questions about whether he was drunk or not, which they will ask him immediately after they contact his employer, the employer WILL fight it, or that even if they don't, with him refusing to provide any helpful information to the unemployment office do you really think there's anybody in the system who's going to give him the benefit of the doubt or find him believable (though he has said nothing to believe!) and approve an unemployment claim?
Besides the fact that he was tipsy, and there is no way he can get around that except directly lying. "Taking the fifth amendment" doesn't really work well here. We hope this will stay between the OP and his employer, and can be overcome and worked out.
If this guy goes to this meeting with his employers and tells the truth, and this is a first event, and he is a valued employee, there is a dandy chance they'll let him go with a warning. Never do it again, okay? If he refuses to say anything, doesn't tell the truth, doesn't show contrition, acts like a legal expert smart **&^, it means he is 100%guaranteed going to get fired.
And then he files for unemployment, having lost a full time long term job for the remote possibility that out somewhere in the far off future, there is a miniscule chance he'll get approved for much smaller weekly benefit for no more than 6 months. Wow.
And I very strongly suspect that if he refuses to answer the unemployment office's questions about whether he was drunk or not, which they will ask him immediately after they contact his employer, the employer WILL fight it, or that even if they don't, with him refusing to provide any helpful information to the unemployment office do you really think there's anybody in the system who's going to give him the benefit of the doubt or find him believable (though he has said nothing to believe!) and approve an unemployment claim?
Besides the fact that he was tipsy, and there is no way he can get around that except directly lying. "Taking the fifth amendment" doesn't really work well here. We hope this will stay between the OP and his employer, and can be overcome and worked out.
