I too had some serious issues arise from claiming unemployment. As some of yall know I wear hearing aids, well I worked at a auto auction when i was 19. I was washing cars and some nitwit on the job decided it would be funny to spray me good with the water hose. My hearing aids broke as a result of this, and even then i continued to work, there unable to hear. On monday nights is the auction, and of course you have to be able to hear and move quickly along after a car is final bidded. I tried one auction, and found I could not hear and I was holding things up, so the next auction comes along the next week, and I asked for the night off, because i wouldnt be able to do the job. The next day I show up for work, still without hearing aids(they cost a small fortune), and they fired me, for not doing the auction.

I filed unemployment, and got the benefits for about 3 months before the auction appealed it, and I had to go to court, still without my hearing aids. I said *** it, theres no way I am going to court not being able to hear to defend my case. They not only flat out lied about why I was fired, they discriminated me, they exspecting me to do something I was unable to do because of my disability. i was finally able to scrap up enough cash, junking, to buy some new hearing aids 6-7 months later, so I could get back to work.

So ya ringo your right, and even small companies like the auction, are shady too.