Despite being a top performing sales rep at a fortune 20 company for 5 years, I was just fired for a harmless prank where we thought everyone could have a laugh. A few coworkers came up with an idea to prank the general manager and I added in an idea to it before they did it. They prank happened (dead spider on desk) and the toxic manager flipped out, left the store and we had to close early that day. She contacted HR and multiple people got fired. This same manager shows up to work late every day, leaves early, and just leaves in the middle of the day for hours to go shopping or whatever the hell she wants. No accountability or consequences for her.
Anyway I'm glad to be gone because I do not want to work at a place where I am undermined and sick with the job. Sucks that for the longest job I've worked at and all the hard work I put in, this is on the record for how it ended. Do you think I have any chance to get unemployment for now? I guess this is considered as a violation of conduct and I've read that can disqualify it. I live in TX. Thanks.