CB. There is (used to be) a loophole in the California Unemployment Code or there used to be. Eligibility is based upon your reason for leaving your last employment. Last employer can be even a day or a few hours. As long as it is a job--not self-employment or independent contractor, that short stint after you were to leave the school job which would be the one that determined your qualification. What would be important to the school is not that you are denied, but that their account not be charged.
If the worst case happened, you would just look for a 1 day job and then when it ended, you would apply for unemployment insurance and put laid off lack of work, or job ended. You would not apply for unemployment insurance if you were justifiably fired or quit your job. Actually, no matter what the circumstances of your separation from this job I would try to use a subsequent employer as your last employer. These people will try to hassle you. They are doing it already.
CB. I am going to be blunt here. You have hated this job for a long, long time. I remember last summer, 14 months or so ago you were dreading returning. It sounds like they want to end your tenure there. They are not happy either. The fact you need the job matters not at all to them. They will act to protect the school and themselves. You cannot blame them.
I am saying this because it is time to make some decisions about what to do. Last year there were a couple of threads where you and others explored options. I think now is the time to re-read those threads and make some decisions and act now.
I think your employers are trying to make a case to let you go. This process will only make it more difficult for you. It is time to take responsibility to create a next step. That is what I think.
RE is correct in her post about, except the employer needs to prove misconduct. The burden of proof is on them. That is why the boss is searching for documentation of the other incident. But it can only count if you were counseled not to do it again.
For this to count as a second incident, he would have to prove that he counseled warned you, or that somebody did tell not to use social media or disclose work related incidents. I think. If they did warn you on that first occasion and you persisted in doing the forbidden activity, they could well be able to deny your unemployment, but not forever. There would be a determinations hearing and the boss will have sent in their proof to make the case, and you would make yours. You could be denied for a set period of time, like 10 weeks or 6 weeks. (I worked for them years ago.) But I think there has to be signed proof that you were counseled, reprimanded on that first occasion for you to be held responsible.
I can't disable my account because I need my support groups, but I am blocking everybody I work with.
I would not post at all on FB, even blocking work colleagues. If I did I would open another account in another name. You do not know for sure it is a work colleague. It could be somebody else.
CB. You have to make some choices here. If you continue to post on FB without knowing who it is who is the informant, you put yourself at risk. If you cannot stop because you cannot function without FB, even if you are at risk in your work, if it were me I would think about trying to apply for SSI.
This is important so I will write it again: The denial of unemployment benefits because of being fired can be avoided if you just get a short-term job
after you are fired, if indeed you will be. Of course all of this has to be verified (you can google it or look at the unemployment code and read about it yourself.)
CB. I think it is time to look for other work or make another plan. This job is nearing the end, I think. I am sorry.