u/IllNoize000

I have a union-protected civil service office job that I'm admittedly terrible at - mainly because I hate almost everything about it. I'm past all probationary periods, so it's extremely difficult for them to fire me. They don't want me there, and I don't want to be there. They've started the process to terminate me, but it's a long, painful slog of warnings and write-ups -- and they're getting me on every little nit-picky thing they can.

Today they offered to let me resign and instead of paying out my accrued time, keeping me on the payroll through it - so I keep my benefits for that time after I'm gone. It amounts to about 3 weeks. I'm in fine health, so I don't really NEED my benefits unless something happens.

My alternative is to keep showing up and being miserable until I find something else.

I asked them to let me resign and don't contest my unemployment request. They said they couldn't do that -- it's up to the state.

So now that I'm typing this, I feel like I wouldn't be getting anything at all. I'm still going to get me accrued time no matter what. I'd just need to resign before I'm actually eventually fired.

Is there something I'm missing here? Is there a reason to take their offer?

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EDIT: This is all going through my union rep. I asked for severance and to let my unemployment insurance go through without contesting it. He came back with this -- which I'm suspicious is basically nothing.

I'll go first. In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when Billy the Kid pulls a gun and shoots out a stage light in a full high school auditorium, and all the kids just kinda snicker at him.

Same old story -- had a pretty nice 20-year career, mostly as an editor at small and mid-sized dailies. Severe burnout, left for a PR job -- hated it, ended up in an insanely boring bureaucratic job, of which I'm thoroughly terrible at doing... Everything I've always known is gone. The papers that remain are all advertorial or granny blog slop. What does remain is entry-level pay for kids right out of college. When I DO get a legit interview, it always ends at, "We need 5 videos a day of your ugly-ass face talking about what you just wrote." ... So... Seriously, guys? What now? Back to school? Walmart? What?

My dad mentioned always drinking Jack Daniels and Busch Light when he was younger, and those are my exact two go-tos. He didn't drink around me when I was a kid, so I don't think it was - like - branded into my impressionable brain or anything. Just wondered if it was the same for other people.