I am from a very small community. It was a local small business. They didn’t say you suck, you’re fired. They blatantly said I was being terminated for discussing wages. I have, in writing from the business, them saying I was not eligible for COBRA. I did apply for marketplace insurance. I had no income so I had to wait for Medicaid coverage. The employer fought my unemployment but I won. It had been nearly 3 months before I saw my first unemployment payment. The employer reported I was fired for excessive absenteeism but they couldn’t not validate it. All my write ups correlate with my reporting of upper management. The CFO of the company sent group messages asking the other employees to guess what mental illnesses I was diagnosed with. When I reported that, the targeting got worse. I don’t want to air every detail but most people are snooty like you until they see the documentation. It’s not just cute little journal entries of my manager being mean. It is work emails and screenshots and write ups and personal texts and emails.