While I was employed at Beckett Thermal Solutions, I received a call from the Department of Job and Family Services to verify if I submitted an application for unemployment. The lady on the phone said she didn’t think I did but had to call and make sure. At the time I was still employed and receiving a paycheck with no talk of termination. I told her that I did not and had no intentions to. That seemed to resolve that.
When I was fired via voicemail I tried to call back and have a conversation with my supervisor, but he stonewalled me and gave me no information or recourse. I was instructed to bring my work laptop in and was told that I would receive 2 paper checks instead of getting direct deposit like usual. One was my last check for my usual salary amount, and the other a Christmas bonus after having it withheld the year before. It was around the same size as I would expect, about what I would get for my federal tax return for the year.
I filed for unemployment with Ohio State and was denied. I was told that the reason given by my employer, “absenteeism”, was justified. I was given no audience with a human being with either my job or a representative from the state department.
All of this after Ohio State charged me thousands of dollars for making a few grand one year and not filing income tax. The taxes were taken out of my checks; I should have gotten a small return that year. But instead, they took my federal return for a few years before it was paid off.