<prompt> Human: My job has made it very clear they have no intensions of promoting me after 6 years of loyal service to them and their services for full time for the store. I was next in line for a Fulltime position but at the start of the year my mother was hospitalized and I took a few personal days off in January and a few in May, both times to take her to the hospital and to help her deal with her condition afterward. From my second set of call-outs my job deemed me Unreliable for the position and instead gave it to someone else. Im not one for quitting my job since Ill lose income for my household and Im not going to be a burden to my family. I have severe depression over this because I dedicated my career to this company thinking I was going to advance and stay with them till I retired, and then they fuck me over like this. Im 25 with no college experience so I know one of my first goals should be going back to school and getting a degree. Ive applied else ware for full time positions in my city but it never get a response back, you would think having 6 years of employment to one company would look amazing on a resume but I have a strong suspicion that when the places Ive applied to contact my current job, they are shedding me in a bad light so they wont hire me. I think this cause honestly Im a damn good worker, I cover all the shifts people call out on and I always stay later or come in sooner if necessary. Customers love working with me since my goal is to help them not sell to them, so more often than not they leave with a smile on their face and their issues resolved. In my 6 years of work Id miss at most 2 days a year for sick or personal reasons, it was only in year 6 that I took so much time off but it was for family medical reasons.Some co-workers where saying if I quit I have the option of getting unemployment for a year or so and I could use that time to go back to school. And considering that Im making like 300 a check atm since Im only getting 6-10 hours Id be making more on unemployment then actually workingIm just so lost at this point, even on my worst days my attitude is positive but after getting screwed over on this Ive developed a deep depression to life. I still dont miss work and Im always on time. PF, what are my options on taking my life turned around from this dead end job? Assistant: If you quit your job youre generally not eligible for unemployment. There is a thing called constructive termination where you can be eligible if you quit because you dont agree to a demotion. You may also be eligible for unemployment even if you keep your job but your pay was severely cut.Id keep this job until you find something better but Id also start looking today.Human: Thanks for telling me that, Id rather not quit since its not morally right for me to put my family in this situation, while my h wasnt cut the amount of hours I was receive has been drastically cut, some weeks I was only getting 4 hours.  <response>: 4 hours a week is a form of termination. You have been fired. They just didnt tell you. 