Hi everyone! I'm considering quitting my serving job soon and want to know if anyone would think I would qualify for "good cause". For the last 3 maybe 4 months one of the shift leads who is a close "personal" friend of the owner has purposefully targeted me: she locks into me and constantly critiques my work, makes me do tasks she has never makes anyone else do, and talks about me behind my back to everyone. She even said to one of my coworkers that she can't fire me, but she can try to make me quit. I messaged HR about this and had a phone call with them, and HR never got back to me. It's been about two months since the HR call. Nothing has really improved and she still is particularly mean to me, all of my coworkers see this.
But after being sick a few weeks ago and using a paid sick day, she decided to take me off the schedule from 5 days to 4 days per week. This is illegal in California. And they never applied my sick time even though I specified I wanted to.
A few days ago my boss also just yelled at me and a coworker in the kitchen and then started laughing at us, he also is quite rude to people and intimidates me when I try to push back on what he says. It's a really toxic environment. I want to leave but I'm afraid I won't be able to get unemployment, I don't make too much money as it is and I don't want to deplete my savings.
Would it be a good idea to quit and try to get unemployment?