<prompt> Human: Hello PF. Today I was given the option to get fired or resign from my job. The short story is that I have been working at a small firm for a year. I was pretty inexperienced when I started so I was hoping for a mentor was mentioned in my interview. Due to a lot of bad timing, I was left to handle several important projects that were beyond my experience on my own and did a terrible job with them. Today was my first annual review and my mentor said he was told to give me the option of getting fired or resigning from my job tomorrow. I know that most of the firms in my area all know each other because they all generally know when new people are hiredfired so I am hesitant on getting fired. I will be getting my vacation pay and there is no severance as far as I know. I have to make the decision tomorrow. What should I do?Assistant: Your effectively terminated either way - and arent going to be able to use your mentor as a reference in either scenario. The only benefit to resigning is for the company to potentially save money on the unemployment insurance premiums. For a future employer its not going to matter if they fired you or if you were coerced to resign - itll essentially be the same thing in their eyes Human: My mentor was urging me to resign on my own. He said that if any interviewers were to ask, then he would have to show my termination letter which will say that I was underperforming. He said if I were to resign on my own, then I can put my own reasons in my resignation letter and the firm can just show them my letter.  <response>: Thats a shitty company you work for. My company only confirms dates of employment when asked. 