You heard it right, I filed for unemployment when I didn’t get a route for a whole week, explicitly saying the route drops were not performance based. Therefore allowing me to file under the reduced hours clause. The day after I did so, halfway through my first shift back I was disciplined for performance reasons by having my routes dropped to 3 a week instead of 4 from that point forward. These performance issues weren’t mentioned until after I began my shift back to work. When I explained further how it was amazons fault with delayed loadouts and a van that was grounded in an audit, and that I was slowing down for safety and that if safety was my DSP’s number one priority it shouldn’t be this large of a problem. I also gave them an ultimatum stating if I have 3 or more routes dropped it will be considered voluntary termination subject to unemployment benefits.
Apparently they took that as me quitting and then after i made them realize I never quit they fired me.
They have since cut off all communications and I have no access to any info like my last paycheck, if I’ll get my pto, or anything like that. The contact they gave me to talk to from that point forward now is ignoring me.
Now, I can’t apply for unemployment again by default due to Texas’ website, but they obviously fired me for filing for unemployment. What recourse do I have at the moment?