Long story that I’m trying to shorten as much as I can. I was ready to leave my employer that I’ve been with for 7 years to fully focus on my education (before I was told of denied financial aid that prevented me from continuing unless I paid a certain percentage of the last semester). The added pressure of being back in a work site that I was removed originally years ago plus losing the last site I worked on gone due to Covid had me at a breaking point throughout the last 2 years on and off. The last straw was the manager not taking me seriously in transferring to a job site close to my community college earlier in the year. He kept changing the subject and not staying on topic whenever I brought it up. For the entire semester, I was always tired going back and forth between classes and work. Very little personal time in that period and unfortunately, the family dog passed away at a day I was not having it at work. When he passed away, he was the final straw of making me write up a two weeks notice of just quitting. It got the attention of the boss to personally call me to understand why, and I told him the truth. He understood my frustration, and we had an arrangement of me staying an extra week and a half to train 10 replacements to stabilize the work site and in exchange I would get what I’ve been demanding for. If I didn’t do it, they would have potentially lost the contract with new recruits not knowing what to do in their new post and company would have been in the red. I did what we agreed too and at first, I got everything I wanted. I was removed from the job site finally and had a post that was during the weekdays in the morning…. for only a week and a half. Long story short, the boss not locally in HQ and is out of state for expansion thought he had it in the bag in removing me out of his hair but the manager being back from vacation while I was station in the new site found out about me and informed me that due to budget issues, they couldn’t exceed the limit of guards in the post, and so I was put as a “floater” going around different locations to fill in for people’s posts in the morning. One talking to employees in the site I was filling in later and a different manager I was assigned to misconstrued what I was saying about him and the post I was put in had me removed and scolded me for “slander”. I thought he fired me and was ready to move on. Until the boss contacted me saying I was put “on hold” and that I should start unemployment until a full time position is open for me again. I stayed because of the vacation time I already set in that would have become a hassle with a different employer. Thankfully with how terrible the process is to getting back to unemployment, my old manger from the 2 years of my life wasted was trying to get me back in a reduced position. I declined him not fearing the DOL denying my eligibility in refusing work. 5 weeks into unemployment later, and I got a call from the boss for a “one-time” two days 8 hours late evening shifts in the previous site I worked 2 years. I nervously said yes to not have a record of me saying no to him to screw over my unemployment. The anxiety and dread that was a common occurrence during the time I work there is starting to come back and I'm starting to doubt my decision of staying with them. I just don’t know anymore with everything looking so good on my end months ago now having me back in the corner. Don’t know if anyone else has been in this kind of scenario before and how you’ve managed.