My wife has worked at Olive Garden for the past few months. It's been a shit-show, chronically short-staffed and undersupplied.
In our state, employers are required to enroll employees in a health insurance plan after 4 consecutive weeks of 20+ hrs worked. She started right about June 1. Come July, no word on insurance. She had to pester management multiple times to get any info from them, noting that she needs access to medical care and has had to cancel multiple appointments. They say she's “eligible in August” despite the law saying she has to be enrolled after 4 weeks.
So yesterday she starts feeling ill partway through her shift. A coworker offers to take her tables, so my wife asks management if she can go home. Manager says no and makes her finish it her tables, saying that O.G. doesn't have to do anything for medical accommodation because there's no doctor's note.
Wife says fine, if I can't go home then I quit. Manager says no, you need to give 2 weeks notice. Wife reminds manager that this is an at-will state. Manager thinks that means that at-will only refers to firing, not quitting. Wife reminds her that at-will means either party can end the contract at any time, and she quits. Manager says, “then you're fired!”
Just to be safe, wife sent an email to all management noting that she had quit at the end of her previous shift. They still sent her the schedule for next week later that night. No shifts, but a day off for a doctor visit was approved… I don't think the manager still didn't realize she actually quit.
*Edit for folks saying they should have let OG fire her, you usually don't qualify for unemployment if you were fired “for insubordination” etc