Worked at a place for 5 months. 1 month in, business owner started targeting an employee, watching cameras from offsite only when he was working and inventing new policies in order to write him up and fire him. He quit before this happened. She started targeting another employee right after that, and the process repeated.
About 6 weeks ago, the owner is watching her target of the day, and texts me to tell me the employee is not spraying disinfectant adequately. I change the behavioral expectation, coach the employee on the new behavior, and move on. Two days later, we run out of disinfectant. She maintains the ordering, so I tell her we need more disinfectant. She flips out over how much is now being used. I contact the company via email, with the owner cc. The company tells me the application rate for the product, and we should be using about a gallon a day. The owner and I have “back and forth” in text over this, as she will not take phone calls or meet people in person. The owner does not understand what an application rate means and keeps telling me we need to use less of the disinfectant.
Around the time this happens, she sends and email from her personal email to the company email, telling us all she is “freeing herself from the constraints of her bi polar medication.” Two and half weeks later, she fires three of us without warning. A strange guy we never met came to the facility and handed us envelopes and took our keys.
In my envelope was a letter saying I was fired for insubordination, the argument over the disinfectant. Since it happened on the work phone, I don’t have that in a thread. Her med-quitting email was also thru the business so no evidence of that either.
Will I get unemployment in California?
TL:DR— crazy business owner goes off meds and fires multiple employees for insubordination. Will I get unemployment in ca?