UI Illinois is accepting severance quitting?

[CyclingChemist]

Hi all I am in a bad position

My company is giving me the choice of taking 8 weeks severance or a 60 day PIP that my boss admitted would be impossible to achieve and no severance. My concern is accepting the severance deal is quitting and I won't be able to get unemployment compensation. What should I do?

[Rabrrita]

First, do you have any type of documentation that your boss said stated that the 60 day PIP would be impossible to achieve and no severance"? It could be a written memo, email, etc. but must be something you can physically present as coming from the company.

Second, what do you think is the reason they said the PIP would be impossible to achieve? Is it because you cant; really do the job or have they saddled you with duties and task above the stated and expected requirements of the position?

To add, you are allowed to quit and get unemployment benefits, just it needs to meet the regulatory requirements for just cause. Additionally, sometimes a quit is a disguised firing which means it now needs to meet the regulatory requirements for misconduct in order to deny benefits.

[CyclingChemist]

Hi Rabrrita no I don't have any written evidence. He described basically what the PIP would entail and made a verbal remark that "I don't think you can achieve all the objectives on it in 60 days." The PIP would cover all sorts of nebulous soft skills everything from communication to lab cleanliness to prioritization etc. He wrote a perforance review a few weeks back that read like what Donald Trump would write for Biden just full of attacks a few of which were outright false many of which were severely exagerated or old news from early in the year from the acquisition of my previous company.

I have 2 days to make a decision If I want PIP or severance and if I take the PIP I get no severance but if I take the severance.

Thanks